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ILGA-Europe’s Survey & Consultation Silvan Agius ILGA-Europe 29 th January 2008.
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Transcript of ILGA-Europe’s Survey & Consultation Silvan Agius ILGA-Europe 29 th January 2008.
Information Gathering Background
1. Workshop during ILGA-Europe’s Annual Conference (late October 2007) circa 40 participants gave their input
2. Survey circulated among ILGA-Europe’s member organizations (October/November 2007) 32 replies received from 22 European counties
How would you rate the awareness that discrimination is prohibited by EU and national employment anti-discrimination legislation?
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How easy or difficult is it to discuss discrimination on the ground of ...
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▲Some trade unions are very active – UNISON (UK), Ver.di (Germany) and other examples
▲Case of sexual orientation discrimination brought forward successfully –
LO (Denmark)
▲Some workplaces take active steps to prevent discrimination
Observations regarding sexual orientation
▼Anti-discrimination laws are not promoted
▼Poor awareness generally
▼No specific awareness campaigns are undertaken
▼Sanctions are not dissuasive enough
Positive Negative
Observations regarding gender identity
▼No awareness that transgender issues are covered by gender equality legislation
▼Issue disregarded altogether in many countries
▼Transgender people are sometimes obliged to use toilets for persons with disabilities !!
Positive Negative
▼ (None recorded)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
If yes, did you achieveany results?
Does yourorganisation take
active steps to workclosely with trade
unions?
NGO collaboration with trade unions
NA No Yes
Examples of good collaboration results
▲ LGBT training programme (inc. seminars & workshops)
provided by NGO to trade union officials ● Austria
▲ Equal Opportunities Code of Practice ● Bulgaria
▲ Collaboration between NGOs and trade unions with the assistance of EQUAL funding ● Finland & Slovenia ▲ Setting up of LGBT groups in trade unions ● Germany &
UK
▲ Collaboration regarding LGBT Pride events ● Portugal
0 5 10 15 20 25
Do trade unions thatoperate in your country
have a policy onequality?
including sexualorientation
including genderidentity
Have they contributedtowards a respectful
working environment forLGBT people?
Trade union policies
NA No Yes
Trade union policies
Trends that emerge from the questionnaire
▼ Some trades unions are narrow in their work and only concerned with wage collective bargaining without focusing on antidiscrimination issues
▼ LGBT issues are not mainstreamed in many trades unions and/or dealt with passively
▲ Some trades unions are doing a wonderful job in raising LGBT issues internally and externally
▲ Trades unions have a very important role to play
▲ Collaborations have been very fruitful
Recommendations for ETUC & ILGA-Europe:
▲ Facilitate and assist partnerships at national level
▲ Mainstreaming of LGBT issues in trades union strategies
▲ Pass on information to the membership base
▲ Wide promotion of the findings of this project
▲ Conduct further work together after the end of this project
Recommendations for national/regional trades unions and NGOs:
▲ Experience and information exchange (twinning)
▲ Trades unions-NGO partnerships
▲ Policies’ development and monitoring of implementation
▲ Cooperate on the setting up of LGBT groups within unions
▲ Further education of trades union members