The Central Organization of IndustrialEmployees in Denmark

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Henrik Kjærgaard

Deputy head of department

hek@co-industri.dk

CO-industri• Cartel for 9 trade unions

• Collective Bargaining with Dansk Industri

• (The Confederation of Danish Industries)– 6000 companies / 225.000 employees

• 13 per cent of all employees in Denmark

• 85 per cent member of a trade union

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Educations

KVU

MVU

GYU

AUM

LVU

AMU – (The Danish Vocational and Training System)

• Further training – Unskilled– Skilled – Technicians2006 – 8956 trainees – 2008 – 10184 trainees

• Control = Government + the two sides of industry• All employers are paying in average 530 DKK per

year per employee

AMU - Unemployeed

• Right to 6 weeks education - AMU

• Right to

• Social benefit – 3335 DKK per week

• Paid transport

• Course charge paid according to agreement

AMU - Employeed

• No maximum in number of weeks

• Relevant to the company

• The company will receive 3335 DKK per week / 91 DKK/per hour – and paid transport

• Employee ”full payment” 150 DKK per hour

AMU - Employeed – own wishes

• Off according to agreement with the company

• The employee gets 3335 DKK per week

• Paid transport

• Has to pay a charge of 500 / 750 DKK per week

CO – DI agreement

Self-elected education

• Right to 2 weeks off per year to education

• No demand of relevance to the company – but to the employees or one of the 6000 member companies of DI

Financial circumstances

• The companies are paying to a fund as following:

– 260 DKK per employee in 2008

– 520 DKK per employee in 2009

• In total about 125 million DKK in 2009

– 5000 DKK per week = 25,000 weeks = 652 annual trainees

The Fund - employee

• Is paying to a self elected education

• Is paying 3335 DKK per week and up to 85 per cent /

91 DKK - 125-150 DKK per hour

• Is paying a possible course charge

The Fund -

• Money to carring out a drive – more training to employees

• Money to other kind of education than AMU – for instance private course offers, courses in other countries etc.

• Will become Denmark´s largest fund !!!

2006 2015 2030 2050

0-5 392825 355777 390677 365876

6-16 754918 719751 678582 690123

17-24 473716 567714 511173 539056

25-64 2982973 2833673 2735969 2594175

65- 823027 1052273 1356462 1435544

Total 5429465 5531203 5674893 5626824

0-5 100 91 99 92

6-16 100 95 90 91

17-24 100 120 107 113

25-64 100 95 92 87

65- 100 128 165 175

Total 100 101 105 104

Only the best companies –

from an employee point of view –

will not be missing working power in the future

”Every metal working employee must learn a foreign language and to play a music instrument”

Former Union President,

Danish Metalworkers´Union

Georg Poulsen

The Central Organization of IndustrialEmployees in Denmark

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Tabel 2.1 Andele af beskæftigelsen, 6 uddannelsesgrupper, 1980-2002Kilde: Egne beregninger på IDA-databasen, Danmarks Statistik.

1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2002

Pct.

Grundskole 47,1 42,8 37,9 32,6 28,7 27,1

Gymnasiel 4,8 6,1 7,0 8,6 9,5 9,1

Faglært 33,1 34,6 36,5 37,4 37,9 38,2

KVU 3,0 3,3 3,6 4,2 4,3 4,6

MVU 9,0 9,8 10,9 12,2 13,8 14,6

LVU 3,0 3,5 4,1 5,0 5,8 6,3

Total 100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0 100,0

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996

Alle fødende

Førstegangs-fødende

Alder

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

'80 '81 '82 '83 '84 '85 '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99Enlige kvinder Enlige mænd Ægtepar Andre par Ikke- hjemmeb.

Pct. Familier med børn