SindNova is a recognized non-profit association that has been involved in studies, training and information for forty years with the aim of deepening and promoting the culture and tools of worker participation in companies.
Industrial relations, working conditions, European Works Councils, the protection of workers' health and safety and sustainable development are the main areas of competence of the Institute.
On these topics SindNova promotes and organizes in Europe comparison initiatives and high-profile national and international study and training projects.
5th Euro-Mediterranean Permanent Conference of Metalworkers' Unions
Istanbul 14-16 October 2024
Trade unions Türk Metal Sendikası, Fim Cisl, FGMM CFDT, FICA UGT, USO Industria and SindNova, organizers of the 5th Euro-Mediterranean Permanent Conference of Metalworkers' Unions reiterated in the final declaration the need for a people-centered approach to seize the opportunities and address the risks in the world of work. Together with the unions attending the conference, from 13 countries and 15 institutions, they strongly call for transitions that are impacting the world of work to be managed through social dialogue and used to increase the quality of work for all.
In the context of today's labor scenario, in which worker participation and voice are key elements for effective and sustainable business management, the European MEET project aims to create an opportunity for discussion, in-depth analysis and training on issues of crucial importance to operators and stakeholders in the engineering sector.
The MEET project intends to export, share and improve, the positive experiences made, from the national to the European level, to gather good practices of similar initiatives on the issues of sustainable development, circular economy and energy saving, in order to create a synoptic synthesis framework that brings out the significant features of the role of the EWC member and workers' representatives in the face of these issues.
Central to the initiative is the goal of formulating concrete proposals for strengthening workers' rights to information, consultation and participation, actively involving actors at different levels, from the company level to the national and European levels.
The social partners have always played roles in shaping and making European Union (EU) law and policy. Yet those roles have varied importantly over time depending on the politics in Europe’s capitals and EU institutions as well as the changing structural challenges faced by European societies.
This project will offer a new understanding of the social partners’ shaping and making of Social Europe: building from milestone foundations to consider possible futures.
Reconstructing EU history to understand better the past and to assess if the fundamental law and policy roles accorded to the social partners in the EU fit with the current social and labour-related challenges facing the EU, and to advance proposals that prepare and adapt the relevant EU acquis to the fast-changing nature of work.
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