Young workers in CCOO

1. Young workers in CCOO Equal treatment for youth www.igualdaddetrato.com www.ccoo.es

2. Structure: • Branch Federations (12) • Linked to different activity sectors • Trade union actions in work places and • Collective bargaining • Rights defence in labour/institutional relations • Confederations of National Areas Regional Unions (19) • Territorial. • Socioeconomic action as global, inside and out of the workplace • Unemployed

3. Branch Federations • FEDERACIÓN DE ACTIVIDADES DIVERSAS (Diverse activities) • FEDERACIÓN DE SERVICIOS Y ADMINISTRACIONES PÚBLICAS (Public Administration) • FEDERACIÓN AGROALIMENTARIA (Food & Agriculture) • FEDERACIÓN DE COMERCIO, HOSTELERÍA Y TURISMO (Commerce, Services, Turism) • FEDERACIÓN DE COMUNICACIÓN Y TRANSPORTE (Communication & Transport) • FEDERACIÓN DE CONSTRUCCIÓN, MADERA Y AFINES (Construction, Wood & Related) • FEDERACIÓN DE ENSEÑANZA (Education) • FEDERACIÓN MINEROMETALÚRGICA (Metal and Mining) • FEDERACIÓN DE PENSIONISTAS Y JUBILADOS (Pensioners and Retired) • FEDERACIÓN DE SERVICIOS FINANCIEROS Y ADMINISTRATIVOS (Bank/Finance & administrative services) • FEDERACIÓN DE SANIDAD Y SERVICIOS SOCIOSANITARIOS (Health & sociosanitary) • FEDERACIÓN DE INDUSTRIAS TEXTIL-PIEL, QUIMICAS Y AFINES (Textile-Leather, Chemistry Industries)

4. Territorial Structure of Trade Union Confederation (C.S. CC.OO) CONFEDERATION National Federation National (autonomies) Confederations/ Regional Unions Regional Federation Province Trade Union/ local. Province Trade Union/ local. Company trade union section

5. Management Body

6. Secretaries (Confed) Organization and T.U. training Affiliation Institutional Relations International affairs T.U. Action – Sectorial policies Social Policy Health & safety & Environment Finances Communication Development Cooperation Women Youth Migrants Employment Training for employment Studies Foundations and other org. Escuela Sindical "Juan Muñiz Zapico” (T.U. School) Economic Studies Office FOREM www.forem.es Historical Archives www.archivoshistoricos.ccoo.es/ Foundation 1st of May www.1mayo.ccoo.es/ Cultural Forum http://www.madridsindical.es/artavan-bin/QuorumEC/init Foundation Peace and Solidarity (www.pazysolidaridad.ccoo.es) Institute Environment and Health www.istas.ccoo.es escuela sindical juan muñiz zapico comisiones obreras Areas

7. Regular Publications

8. Young workers in the Trade Union • Specific • Confederal Secretariat of Youth • Youth Secretaries at Regions • Youth areas at Union Branches • General • Young trade unionists at Companies and Committees – Channel the policies and campaigns worked out in specific areas.

9. Secretariat of Youth • Brings young workers to the trade union through targeted campaigns with more stress in topics that affect more directly to young people • Organises seminars and workshops • Bringing together delegates or affiliates under a topic • Debates, spare time activities, work groups, exchange of problems and situations • Negotiating collective bargaining • Social Dialogue • National – Regional – Local - Federations

10. C.S. Comisiones Obreras

11. Confederal Website: Equal treatment www.igualdaddetrato.com

12. Data • Affiliates: CCOO:>1 million UGT: >900.000 CGT: • Affiliation rate: 15% • Collective bargaining coverage: 90% • Mobilization capacity in general strike: >80% • Low affiliation vs high representation (high level of participants in t.u. elections) – Spanish system gives high representation but dis incentivates affiliation  t.u. strength by mobilization, as Govt bargains with t.u. on the basis of its affiliation and not representation

13. Youth in Spain - Data • Emancipation rate • 42,5 % • % Salary destined to house mortgage: 60,8 • 75% age 18-24 • 50% age 30-34

14. Temporary jobs

15. Youth in Spain Spain, 5th UE country with the highest rate of youth unemployment www.igualdaddetrato.com

16. Young Delegates CCOO wins elections in Renault Sevilla with a candidature integrated mainly by women and young workers. www.igualdaddetrato.com

17. Participation in Social Movements CCOO vicepresidency at Youth Council Spain www.igualdaddetrato.com

18. Work accidents Young workers, main victims of labour accidents www.igualdaddetrato.com

19. Labour accidents per age

20. Social Dialogue • Labour Reform – June 2006 • Main problems to approach • Insufficient employment volume • High level of temporality • Main achievements: • Reduce temporality by forcing companies to transform into indefinite temporary jobs under certain basis by reducing social security costs • Grant the following collectives (reduction of SS quota): • Women • Women after motherhood • Victims of gender violence • >45 • Young people 16-30 • Unemployed over 6 months • Control illegal cession of workers • Grant groups under risk of exclusion:

21. Permanent Youth Programme • Regular campaigns from the Secretariat mainly led by affiliates and delegates in the work centres. • Negotiating conditions for youth employment in collective agreements – seniority plus? • PEJ: Punto de Emancipaciòn Juvenil (Youth Emancipation Point) – Financed by the Regional Government (Social Dialogue) • Job orientation • Job board • Information on training courses, leisure activities, conferences, etc. • Informative talks in secondary schools: employment, health, education, youth and housing, etc.

22. Last Youth Campaigns • Precariousness is a M (“Mierda =Sh*t”) • Delegates and volunteers visited several work centres informing about the adverse effects of accepting bad work conditions and explaining trade union proposals. • Brochures, video, t-shirts, visits.. • Trade Union Elections Campaign • Leaflet explaining simply how it works, what it means, how to participate, why joining a trade union, etc. • Emancipation Handbook • Labour guides • Health campaigns

23. Trade Union Elections

24. Enhance quality and stability of employment • Strengthen and extend public social protection systems • Move forward in equal treatment and eradicate any form of discrimination • Impulse social cohesion • Upgrade life and work quality • Defend health and security at work • Strengthen trade union autonomy

25. Precariousness is S..

26. Affiliation rates

27. “El Sindicalismo del Siglo XXI”. CCOO. Data 2004 - 2005

28. “El Sindicalismo del Siglo XXI”. CCOO. Data 2004 - 2005

29. “El Sindicalismo del Siglo XXI”. CCOO. Data 2004-2005

30. Collective Bargaining and YouthConfederal standards 2005 – 1 - • Involve youth workers in the negotiation processes • Limit the use of temporary contracts – solely for legal instances and for a short term activity • Avoid abuse of temporary contracts concatenation • Avoid Temporary Employment Agencies abuse • Impulse conversion of temporary contracts into indefinite • Equal opportunities policy and rights defence in outsource work. • Control illegal cession of workers (externalisation and outsource)

31. Collective Bargaining and Youth Confederal standards 2005 – 2 - • Avoid specific conditions leading to a double scale of staff and wages for young workers • Extend pay leaves also to common law partners • Establish social clauses to facilitate emancipation and access to first house for youth, without discrimination on the basis of contract type, such as renting grants or mortgages. • Control indiscriminate time disposal of worker and work shifts, ensuring due rest and protecting family life and work conciliation • Ensure balance between education, activity performed and professional classification • Labour rights acknowledge for trainees and apprentices.

32. Main obstacles to affiliation • Services offered by the trade union happen to be insufficient to meet today’s young workers demands – need to adapt to today’s society • Temporary jobs in small companies make it difficult for them to organise • Fears – instability of market; difficulty to get a job • Young workers find no personal benefits – increased self-interest opposite to solidarity demands • They demand exclusivity. Do not see an advantage if all benefits achieved are for all workers • Loss of social and ideological motivation