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ITUC – PERC

Policy, Plans and Priorities

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Contents:

1. ITUC PERC Youth Committees – aims, priorities, activities and forthcoming events.

2. ITUC -PERC Campaigns and activities for young workers

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PERC` bodies and Youth Representation

1. General Assembly

- meets at least once every 4 years

- Youth quota: 3 seats for youth delegates with voting rights

2. Executive Committee

- meets at least once a year

- Youth quota: 1 seat for youth delegates with voting rights

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PERC Youth dimension

PERC Youth policy – developed and coordinated by the youth structure, which operate through two bodies:

• Youth Conference

• Youth Committee with a Bureau

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PERC Youth structure

1. Youth Conference• Organized at least once in two years;• Participation of all PERC affiliates` representatives who must be

under 35 years old;• Discussion and adoption at least a work program for the next

year;

2. Youth Committee with a Bureau • Composed of 9 elected members (under 33 years old at the

beginning of their 2-years mandate);• Bureau: President and 3 deputies elected by the Conference• President of PERC YC = member of PERC Executive

Committee;• Members of the Bureau = delegates to the ITUC YC;• Meet at least one time a year;• Working language – English and Russian

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1st PERC Youth Founding Conference

9-10 July 2009, Brussels, Belgium

On the basis of the discussions the delegates to the Conference adopted 2 main documents:

• Concluding statement to guide the PERC YC in its work and to deliver its voice to the trade union decision making bodies;

• Terms of references and Rules of Procedures of the PERC YC (developed by the T.YC)

=> ELECTIONS AND …

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1st PERC Youth Committee

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1st PERC Youth Committee

9 YC members with Bureau (1 President and 3 Deputies):

• Daniela Aleksieva, KNSB, Bulgaria (P)• Benoit Constant, CSC, Belgium (VP)• Hans Richard Schmidt-Nielsen, AC, Denmark (VP)• Tugba Balci, HAK-IS, Turkey (VP)• László Kovács, MSZOSZ, Hungary (CM)• Andrea Mone, CISL, Italy (CM)• Ilze Mihailova, LBAS, Latvia (CM)• Ivana Prnjat, CTUM, Montenegro (CM)• Aleksey Slyazin, FNPR, Russia (CM)

(P) – President , (VP) – Vice-President; (CM) – Committee member

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2nd PERC Youth Conference

• 10-11 November 2011, Krakow, Poland

• Topic of the conference: “A quality education for a quality job!” with focus on: transition process from education to employment; integration of young people in labour market; internships; mobility; quality education; vocational education and training; organising students; etc.

• Organized jointly with ETUC Youth Committees

• Final document: Youth Declaration with some recommendations

• 10th November 2011 - elections of the 2nd PERC Youth Committee members (for next 2 years November 2011 – November 2013)

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2nd PERC Youth Conference

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2nd PERC Youth Committee

9 YC members with Bureau (1 President and 3 Deputies):

• Tugba Balci, HAK-IS, Turkey (P)• Daniela Aleksieva, KNSB, Bulgaria (VP)• Michael Wagner, DGB, Germany (VP)• Ivana Prnjat, CTUM, Montenegro (CM)• Pierre Ledecq, CSC, Belgium (CM)• Goda Neverauskaite, LPSK, Lithuania (CM)• Malin Norberg, LO, Sweden (CM)• Lasha Bliadze, GTUC, Georgia (CM)• Oksana Abboud, KVPU, Ukraine (CM)

(P) – President , (VP) – Vice-President; (CM) – Committee member

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Main tasks of PERC YC

• Develop a youth section of the PERC working program;

• Provide advice and recommendation to the PERC ExC;

• Examine labour market and workplace issues related to youth;

• Implement campaigns on recruitment and integration of young workers (decent work campaigns);

• Promote networking of young unionists;

• Support work of youth structures of the affiliates;

• Promote training of young TU leaders and activists.

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PERC YC General Priorities• To promote:

- a rights-based approach to the problems of young workers;

- specific programmes to facilitate the transition from school to working life;

• To ensure:- the full integration and active participation of young people in TUs;

- the integration of concerns and needs of young workers into TU policies, campaigns and actions;- youth mobilization and active participation in different common activities at national and regional level - WDDW (7 October);

• Further development of the European networking, strengthening the cooperation with ETUC YC and other youth structures in the region, and build common actions.

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For 2012-2013• The PERC Youth Committee had its first

meeting on 14 February 2012. Along the lines of the PERC policy platform, the PERC Youth Committee decided to focus its programme on four priority areas.

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1. Quality jobs for young workers

2. Intergenerational solidarity

3. Renewal and relations with new movements

4. Communication and visibility of

PERC youth work

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1.Quality jobs for young workers

• Youth unemployment is growing, and in a number of countries nearly half of the young people are out of work (Spain, Greece). In previous years youth unemployment in countries beyond the borders of the EU was higher than in EU, with present economic and social crisis and the austerity measures taken by the states, the situation in EU is not better anymore. 5.5 million young people in the EU were unemployed. However, the official statistics names “youth” those who are below 25 years old. Certainly, the number of under-35 unemployed people is much higher.

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• Furthermore, those who work have very high risks to get in precarious employment – of interim labour, short-term employment, informal and grey schemes of employment – and with bleak horizons for labour markets recovery, “precariosity for years” is a quite real perspective. Present youth in Europe is facing a rising danger of being “a lost generation”, their chances for decent employment are low as the labour market shrinks in result of austerity measures and economic hardships.

The PERC youth committee is going to develop a set of

activities to debate and to promote quality jobs for

young workers policies, contributing to the ITUC and

ETUC fight for “alternatives”, “new growth models” and

“decent job creation”.

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2.Intergenerational solidarity

• The other group of population who risk being marginalized by this crisis, are elderly people, pensioners, whose pensions often are not enough for decent living, while health care treatment gets unaffordable and of poor quality because of cuts in state spending, and elderly workers, who experience “rational behavior” of hiring employers not to engage someone in his / her last years of employment and often they are also destined for interim and other atypical employment.

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The PERC youth committee considers

intergenerational solidarity an important element in

trade union work. Not only these two groups risk

marginalization caused by the crisis and austerity

measures, elderly support for family building is of

extreme importance in many societies, particularly,

where childcare systems are not functioning or are

deficient. On the other hand, work and life experience

is invaluable for labour market newcomers, particularly

in traditional sectors, while young people could help

elderly workers to better cope with electronic

technology racing.

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3.Renewal and relations with new movements

• New movements are born by these “lost youngsters”, the movements that does not trust or think to associate with unions, which are considered as a part of institutional order they have no place in. They are built on horizontal democracy principle in opposition to vertical democracy – unions and political society is built upon. Unions need to search for ways to communicate with these movements, and unions can not just witness the new trends.

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• The PERC youth committee considers these trends as a challenge and as an opportunity for union movement and for trade union youth. It will study different “relations” with these movements, and will explore common activities, where it is appropriate, with different social platforms.

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4.Communication and visibility of PERC youth work Communication and visibility shall be in focus.

First, social media and other “horizontal” means

of socializing and of action are the tools that

today could do more than traditional

communication. Secondly, traditional closed

door meetings or even broader conferences are

not seen beyond the room and do not capitalize

the effects of mass communication.

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• The PERC Youth Committee considers that each of the union actions, first of the PERC youth, that has public resonance, shall be accompanied by some visibility actions, by traditional ones – picketing, press-conferencing or leafleting, but also of creativity and performance, in virtual, but also in the real world.

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For realizing these priorities, thecommittee introduced severalactivities,meetings and events..

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BELGIUM

the CSC action in front of the European Commission: Solidarity against Austerity! Youth and elderly people together!

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GEORGIA

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BULGARIA

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TURKEY

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Summer school

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We as youth Committee members made

different symbolic actions in support of the

ETUC protest manifestation of 29

February that was done together with

association of elderly people in several

PERC countries.

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Activities and events organised / participated by/or PERC YC:

• PERC General Assembly (6th December 2011, Brussels) – youth contribution to the development of PERC Programme

• The 6th meeting of the PERC Executive Committee (6 March 2012,Brussels)- youth proposals and project ideas to the PERC Activity Programme

• International Youth Conference: “Quality education, more jobs and better future for young people in Europe”30 April – 1 May 2012, Sofia

• 6th ITUC Youth Committee meeting - 14-15 May 2012 - Guadalaja

• ILO Youth Employment Forum-23-25 May 2012, Geneva• International Labour Conference- 30 May - 14 June 2012

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International Youth Conference: “Quality education, more jobs and better future for young people in

Europe”30 April – 1 May 2012, Sofia

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Our Long-term priorities:

• Strengthening the cooperation with PERC Women Committee and ETUC Youth Committee through preparing and organising joint projects and activities;

• Contribution to the ITUC campaigns and actions

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3rd Youth Committee

26-27 November 2013, Vienna, Austria

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3rd PERC Youth Committee

9 YC members with Bureau (1 President and 3 Deputies):

• Goda Neverauskaite, LPSK, Lithuania (P)• Tural Suleimanov, AHIK, Azerbaijan (VP)• Ronja Endres, DGB, Germany (VP)• Lasha Bliadze, GTUC, Georgia (VP)• Florian Marin, BNS, Romania (CM)• Dmitriy Chuikov, FNPR, Russia (CM)• Olesya Briazgunova, KVPU, Ukraine (CM)• Joanna Mulumba, CSC, Belgium (CM)• Adrienne Hangonyi, LIGA (CM)

(P) – President , (VP) – Vice-President; (CM) – Committee member

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Our common goal:

• We kindly invite you to have a look at the ITUC` campaign tools and consider how they could be used in your country and union!

• Give full and active support to the new and innovative campaign of ITUC !

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