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Developing Dynamic Analyses for good Levels of Union Standards and Articulation of
International And National Networking Actions - Information Consultation Participation
DEDALUS and ARIANNA
Pilot Commitee IIBarcelona, May the 6th
Strategic meaning of the project
1 •Knowledge dissemination
2 •Awareness raising
3 •Experience and experimental communication
4 •Operational practices
5 •Involvement of different bodies/roles/ rank and file
6 •Systemic game ambition
Main operational guidelines
Training Communication
Knowledge Networking
DEDALUS
Structure, main activities, decision making process, tools and outputs
PROJECT PRESENTATION
18 months of work
• Project presentation
• Information Sharing• Brain storming on
communication strategy
• Decision making on communication strategy
• Decision making on training seminars
PC Barcelona 2
National seminar
National seminar
PC Warsaw1
• Practical and operational skills
• Soft skills• Specific issues
Training seminar
3
4
National seminar
National seminar
National seminar
National seminar
National seminar
1 day
1 day
3 days
1 day
• Evaluation of training
• Decision making on final conference and final publication
PC London1
day
• Dissemination • Final
publication presentation
• Communication results presentation
Final conference
5
61 day
To disseminate the contents of the project and to externally promote trade union action at transnational level
Communication strategy
The project: where are we?
Networking
Analyzing
Building tools
• Pilot committees• Coordination• Joint decision making
• Quantitative Research
• Qualitative research• Training needs
• Training modules• Tools for union action• Knowledge on EWC• Newsletter• Focus group
methodologies
ICARUS
To share
To decide on
To develop
• Ideas• Needs• Experiences• Icarus’results
• Target groups• Training seminars• Communication
strategy• Final schedule
• Social media strategy• International and national
training seminars• Website final publication• Tools for trade union activity• Tools for trade union network• Support tools for training and
communication
DEDALUSWE are HERE
A short overview of ICARUS project: tools, experiences and processes that can be implemented during Dedalus
THE ICARUS EXPERIENCE
ICARUS: an introduction
• To analyse good or bad practices of reciprocal information and cooperation among workers reps in plants of multinational undertakings, EWCs members, trade union officers
• To provide specific and tailored education and training for the full and correct implementation of information and consultation rights
• To establish a coordinated network of trade union reps at different level
Objects
Training
Network co-ordination
MappingAssessment
What we did
• Vertical and horizontal networking
• National and international networking
Networks
• Preparation of focus group methodology
• 9 group discussions at national level
Qualitative Research
• 4 days of international training seminars
• 14 sessions of work
Training
• International survey• 3 different multiple choice
questionnaires (EWCs members, employees representative, Trade union offices)
• 158 respondents from 6 countries
Quantitative Research
What we gains
1 •Trade union network improved by this experience
2 •Analysis tools
3 •Tools and methodologies to improve the cooperation among EWC members, employees representative and trade union
4 •Greater awareness in EWC dynamics
5 •The operational structure of the project/work method
Operational structure
• Evaluation of needs
• Information Sharing
• Creation of tools• Decision making
• National use of tools and methodologies created during the pilot committee (e.g questionnaires)
• International seminar
• Evaluation of the national actions/ international seminar
• Preparation of the next activity
PILOT COMMITTEE PILOT COMMITTEEIMPLEMENTATION
FINAL CONFERENCE
• Newsletter• Website• National
conferences
DISSEMINATION
• Tools and knowledge in union disposal for future actions
OUTPUTS
www.icaruspartecipation.euMulti channel website:
• video; documents; training materials; on-line surveys; news; external links
To collect
of all the contents of the project
To support
trade union activity in MNCs
To disseminate the contents of the project
To strengthen
international trade union networks through information sharing
multi languages
• Website: ENGL, ITA• Documents are
translated in 7 languages
Tools for EWCs analysisFinal Report
methodologies; research results; project phases;
description and evaluation of each tools
Regulation
Information on European directives and legislation on
EWC
VideosThe Icarus experience, good practices, evaluation on the
training seminar, video documentary
News and links
Database, newsletters and specific website
To improve
knowledge and to disseminate
information on EWC
target EWC members, trade unionists, students of IR
Surveys
To map EWC members
To improve
knowledge on EWC
To collect
feedback from actors
To strenghen
trade union networks in MNCs
To support
unions in the definition of policies for EWC
Quantitative survey
Large scale questionnaire implementation during
research activity
Quantitative survey
3 different questionnaires:- EWC members- Trade union officers- Employees representatives
Qualitative survey
Open questionnaires to collect feedback
Qualitative survey
3 different questionnaires:- Communication- Training needs- Relation among actors
Focus GroupFocus group
Methodology definition
Check list of items
To investigate during the focus group
To improve
knowledge on EWC
To develop
a problem-solving approach
To improve
communication among actors
To promote
active learning process
To activate
decision making process
Newsletter50 publications
3 itemsMNCs, EWCs and TFAsEuropean legislationHuman rights all over
the world
Languages
Italian3 lines of Abstract
in English
External links
To collect further information on the
issues
Multichannel dissemination
EmailWebsite
To collect news on EWC
To support
the EWC members activity
To disseminat
egood practices
To promote
European trade union action
To promote
labour start campaigns
International training sessionsIssues
EWC in a historical perspective; the role of EWC members; MNCs; negotiation TFAs; multi-cultural dimension; best
practices
Ispra (Italy)
2.5 days of class work, splitted into sessions
Interactive method
EWC meeting simulationDebate, exchange and
teamwork.
To provide
effective and practical information tools
To re-use
the session in the national context
To improve
soft and hard skills of EWC members
To share
Good union practices at transnational level
Target, tools, channel to communicate and to disseminate the contents of the project … multiplication of information and sensitiveness as learning process
COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
Mediactivism
Multilanguage
Monthly publishing schedule
Social Media Strategy
Website
Smart and interactive
Different type of publications
Multichannel
Network and community
Multilevel
COMMUNICATION STRATEGY
Shifting stress from ‘information’ to ‘narrative’
A multilevel target for communication
Social network usersTrade
union’s rank and fileTrade
union officersEWC
Members
Multichannel tools for communication
• Deepening contents
• Tools• Links• Network• Procedures
ICARUS WEBSITE • The core of our
communication strategy
• Dynamic structure
• Multilanguage• Contents in
different format (video, photos, article)
DEDALUS WEBSITE
SOCIAL NETWORK
NEWSLETTER
TRADE UNION NETWORKS
ALLIANCES
INTERNATIONAL UNIONISM
EWC
Web site general structure
1. Labyrinth library: to organize existing materials in different languages about training and dissemination of EWC work.
2. Arianna’s Threads: short stories of EWC members who tell their experiences in EWC but in a narrative way.
3. Dedalus’ Maps. These are longer stories about ‘epic’ moments in the life of a EWC.
To collect and to disseminate all the materials developed during the project
DEDALUS TOOLS AND MATERIALS
News, documents and items to disseminate trade union international dimension
Five examples of Arianna’s Threads The number shouldn’t be too high and the concepts should be very clear.Nor technical, neither philosophical approach, but narrative, storytelling,
emotional and socializing one.The best anecdote you never experienced in a EWC?
Purple Thread
Who important it is to have an intercultural approach in EWCs?Worse enterprise practices in being ‘helpful’ to EWC workWhat do you discovered about Europe in your EWC experienceWhat do you think is the real potential of EWCs?
Blue ThreadGreen Thread
Red Thread
Orange Thread
Perhaps starting from a general approach of storytelling based onGood and bad practices inputs and debate
Storytelling
Social media strategy
Goals definitionQualitative goals
Quantitative goals
To build a trade unionist
community
Internal Training
Political meetings
Mediactivism
Publishing plan
Editing team composition
• Pils• Deep
information• News• Campaigns• Plan of
translation
• Contents• Dissemination
strategy
Monthly planning
Publication plan/final report
Repartition of the work among partners
• Human dimension in EWCs: faces and anecdotes from EWCs members
• News from European institutions and trade union federations• News on human rights violation• National reportage• Positional paper on EWCs, MNCs and trade unionism• Trade union network analysis in some MNCs from
Montenegro and Serbia• IR in Europe (www.workerparticipation.eu)• Labourstart campaigns (www.labourstart.org)• Dissemination of Dedalus tools• Cooperation with bloggers (e.g Annotazione.de)
What else?What else?
Categories
Guidelines; objectives, items, know how
TRAINING
Guidelines
Objectives
Items
Know how
ObjectivesParticipants will have the possibility to:
on EWC issues not frequently included in training activities- Hard skills- Soft skills
Get knowledge
on strategies and tools for raising awareness and disseminate knowledge and information in their organizations and networks
Reflect
techniques of participative and cooperative decision making methods
Experience
Items
1 •Methods for specific and innovative information on EWCs
2 •Specific issue concerning EWCs and MNCs for trade union action
3 •Problem-solving
4 •Active learning methodology
5 •Techniques to support decision making process and teamwork
Know how
to talk and to present the training contents to others To disseminate:
techniques and methods experienced To use:
the known contents into their own trade union activityTo bring:
how to introduce new tools and approaches to their activity
To plan:
practices and techniquesTo experience:
National seminars
Participants description: name, role, sector, previous experience
Training sessions description: issues, modalities, sum up of the debate
Photos: to use for our web site and for the final report for the Commission
• date and location• contents• target group
Flexible structure on
Seminar report
One day training for each organization involved
International seminar
• Budget• Bargaining• MNCs structures and cultures• Confidentiality
EWC and MNCs Issues
• Networking• Procedures (i.e. Info&Cons)• Offensive … taking the
initiative
Innovation in Trade union action in MNCs and EWCs
• The use• The potential• The strategy• The plan
Communication:
• The planning of the strategy• The meeting with the
management
Simulation activity
• To use them in the seminar• To experience, understand,
debate the potential• To plan the possible
application in the Trade union activity
Techniques
Is that what we want?