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Promotion of the Social Dialogue,Strengthening of Workers Organizations and the Collective Representation through Education,Information and Consultation with a Special Focus on Nordic Companies in the Baltic States. Main partner organisations: ITUC – International Trade Union Confederation;
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Promotion of the Social Dialogue,Strengthening of Workers Organizations and the Collective Representation through Education,Information and Consultation with a Special Focus on Nordic Companies in the Baltic States
Main partner organisations: ITUC – International Trade Union Confederation; ETUC-European Trade Union confederation LO/TCO Bistånsnämnd (Sweden); LPSK – Lithuanian TU Confederation; LBAS – Latvian TU Confederation; EAKL – Estonian TU Confederation; TALO – Estonian TU for Professional Employees. LDF- Lithuanian Labour Federation LPS”Solidarumas” Lithuania Other possible partner organisations: GUFs, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish TUs, other labour movement NGOs. Project Partners
ITUC Vilnius Bureau Jasinskio 9 Vilnius, Lithuania E-mail: ituc.vilnius@post.5ci.lt Tel.: +370 699 05263 Fax: +370 52124788 Project Co-ordination Office
Commerce; Finances; Services; Hotel and Catering; Transport; Telecommunication; And other interested areas having Nordic investments. Target Sectors
Strengthened Social Dialogue in the targeted sectors; Trade Unions have better skills organisational development and collective negotiations; Informational network; Increasing membership,number of collective agreements and negotiations Efficient cross border co-ordination in the Nordic-Baltic TU family; Young workers and women activated in targeted sectors Expected Results
Increasing trade union membership; Trade Unions in targeted sectors are stable; Higher Number of Collective agreements and on-going negotiations; Many unions from targeted sectors openly sharing information (update of the data base); Further development of www.balticTU.net; Higher participation of women and youth in Trade Union activities Indicators
Total population of Lithuania - 3.5 million; Lithuanian labour force - 1.6 million; over two-thirds employed in the private sector; Lithuanian employee skills - 42% with higher education, 24% with specialised education Lithuania's labour costs are among the lowest in the European Union; The minimum monthly salary is 700 LTL(€ 200); starting 2008 – 800 LTL (€ 230);(2005-185 ) the minimum hourly salary is 4.38 LTL (€ 1.3); the average gross monthly wage in the 3rd quarter of 2007 was 1,950 LTL (€ 565).(2005-385) Background Information (LT)
GDP growth (2007 2nd quarter) 11% Inflation (2007) 13% Inflation annual average over 5 years (2006)6.5% Accumulated FDI (2003) 2.8 billion 2004 2005 2007 IX Gross wages (LV) 207.56 241.54 400 In the public sector 239.99 279.75 478 Private sector 188.75 219.24 365 Minimum wages - 80 lats (115 euros) Background Information (LV)
Background Information (EST) • Total labour force (thous., 2007) 650 • Employment rate (%) 61.6 • Unemployment rate (%) 5.9 • Minimum wages EUR 230 • Average monthly wage (gross) 600 • 2005 min 172 average 530euro • The highest gross wage is in financial intermediation and the lowest in hotels and restaurants sector.
Lithuania's Top Five Investors (%), 2007 Poland 22,4 Denmark 15,2 Sweden 10,5 Germany 9,7 Finland 6,7 Most popular sectors: manufacturing, trade, communications, finance. Countries having investments in the Baltic States (LT)
Latvia's Top Five Investors 1. Sweden 2. Germany 3. Denmark 4. Finland 5. Norway Countries having investments in the Baltic States (LV)
Countries having investments in the Baltic States (EST) FDI by country end of 2006 (%) • Sweden 39,5 • Finland 26,4 • United Kingdom 3,8 • The Netherlands 3,4 • Norway 3,3 Companies • Hansapank (SE); • Eesti Telecom (SE/USA); • Sampo Pank (FI) • Eurodek Tallinn OU (GB) • SEB Eesti Uhispanka (SE);
SERVICE SECTORS Finances: SEB – Vilniaus Bankas (LT; ~1600), Eesti Uhispank, Latvijas Unibanka; Föreningssparbanken/Swedbank– Hansa Banks in LT (~2500 employees), LV (~1200), EST (~2300). Nordea - LT (100 employees), LV (117), EST (142). Commerce: ICA RIMI – one of the leading retailers in the Baltics; Kesko (FI) – in Latvia and Estonia; JYSK – all 3 countries; Narvesen (NO). Hotels: Radisson SAS, Scandic, Reval Baltics; Sectors & Biggest Companies
SERVICE SECTORS (cont.) Security: Group4 Falck, Securitas – 50 % of the market in the Baltic states. Telecommunications: Tele2, Ericsson, TDS Mobile International (DK) – all 3 countries; Telia/Sonera – Lithuanian/Estonian/Latvian Telecom; Omnitel GSM (LT) - 100 % of GSM companies are owned by Nordic. MANUFACTURING SECTORS Building: NCC; Constructus. Textile & Wood: Many small enterprises producing for Nordic companies (e.g. IKEA).
General TU membership in the Baltic countries LV - ~15 % ES - ~9-10 % LT - ~10-11% TU membership in the Nordic companies ~ 16.000 members in the Baltic states: ES - ~8.000; LV - ~4.500; LT - ~3.500. 25 % of these members are in the telecommunications sector.
sectoral competition; not clear which union should organise new sectors; different regional division to GUFs (Baltic countries are in different sub-regions); necessity of structural changes (strengthening of regional structures, individual membership, flexible membership schemes); necessity to have closer co-ordination with Nordic TU secretariats; campaigning should be organised both in Nordic and Baltic countries at the same time; Challenges (1)
necessity of sub-regional (Nordic-Baltic) framework agreement; 90 %of membership in Nordic companies are from past times; little/no membership in new sectors; outsourcing; subcontracting; call centres; migration. Challenges (2)
http://www.investinestonia.com http://www.lsd.lt http://www.liaa.gov.lv http://www.csb.lv/ Sources
Migration in numbers – past 15 years • Lithuania – 431 thousand (around 12% of population); • Latvia – 150 thousand (around 8% of population); • Estonia – 60 thousand (around 5% of population).
