International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Pan-European Regional Council (PERC) Youth Committee

1. ITUC – PERC
Policy, Plans and Priorities
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2. 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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3. PERC` bodies and Youth Representation
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General Assembly
- meets at least once every 4 years
- Youth quota: 3 seats for youth delegates with
voting rights
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Executive Committee
- meets at least once a year
- Youth quota: 1 seat for youth delegates with
voting rights
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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)
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7. 1st PERC Youth Committee
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8. 1st PERC Youth Committee
9 YC members with Bureau (1 President and 3 Deputies):
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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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9. 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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10. 2nd PERC Youth Conference
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11. 2nd PERC Youth Committee
9 YC members with Bureau (1 President and 3 Deputies):
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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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12. Main tasks of PERC YC
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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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13. PERC YC General Priorities
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To promote:
- a rights-based approach to the problems of young workers;
- specific programmes to facilitate the transition from school to
working life;
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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);
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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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. • 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. • 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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22. 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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23. • 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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24. For realizing these priorities, the
committee introduced several
activities,meetings and events..
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25. BELGIUM
the CSC action in front of the European Commission:
Solidarity against Austerity! Youth and elderly people
together!
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26. GEORGIA
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27. BULGARIA
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28. TURKEY
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29. Summer school
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30. 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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31. 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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32. 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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33. 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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34. 3rd Youth Committee
26-27 November 2013, Vienna, Austria
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35. 3rd PERC Youth Committee
9 YC members with Bureau (1 President and 3 Deputies):
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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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36. 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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37. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!
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