Trade Union Influence in Company Agreements

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[...] In addition, the concept of social and environmental responsibility reinforces this need. In fact, it analyzes and highlights the company's overall performance according to 3 criteria: economic development, environmental protection and social. The first element of a good understanding with the representative institutions of the personnel is the respect of a certain number of legal guarantees. During the annual mandatory negotiations, the meetings focus on salaries, staff, working hours and organization, professional equality objectives between men and women, measures for the professional integration and maintenance of employment of disabled workers. [...]

[...] It seems that the question of work organization has not truly emerged on the ground of trade union claims or negotiation. The question of employment is a social emergency. In fact, as far as trade unions are concerned, their positions on employment are the same as those of management. This is the main issue and the others are secondary. Trade union representatives are relatively isolated from the rest of the trade union movement. We also observe that trade unions are disarmed in the face of increasingly strong new requirements in employment and work organization issues. [...]

[...] This delegate has a dual function, but only one hour credit. In the absence of a trade union delegate in the company or a staff delegate acting as a trade union delegate in companies with fewer than 50 employees, a branch agreement may authorize an employer to negotiate a company agreement with elected representatives of the staff (staff delegates or members of the company committee). In companies with more than 20 employees, staff delegates present the employees' complaints to the company manager. [...]

[...] Some aim to improve working conditions by moving from a militant trade unionism to an accompaniment trade unionism. Trade unions facing the employer's offensive must take a different orientation to be heard. The ambition is to gather all supporters of accompaniment trade unionism in a single and vast democratic and independent organization. At the center of the project, the FEN (Federation of National Education), inspired by the CFDT. It is a matter of removing the first place from the CGT and perhaps recovering some of its militants. [...]

[...] We can say that there is therefore a form of partnership. Preserving constructive social relations helps to avoid the risks of social deterioration and thus ensures the productivity and performance of a company. In fact, these representatives can prove to be decisive partners to accompany a company in its development. As a result, any business leader who wants to contribute to a pacification of relations within the company must master the respective rights and obligations of the employer and these social actors and adopt behaviors that favor social dialogue. [...]