Unlocking Collective Bargaining Power in Three Sectors: A Call to Action

CEECAW Newsletter No. 1

October 2024.

Project: Challenges for Organising and Collective Bargaining in Care, Administration and Waste Management sectors in Central Eastern European Countries - CEECAW

The CEECAW project is a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming the future of collective bargaining in three critical sectors (care services, public administration, and waste management) across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Serbia. This initiative aims to empower trade unions and elevate sectoral engagement in line with the EU’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages.

The project aims to support trade unions at both sectoral and national levels in implementing the goals indicated in Article 4 of the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages in the EU. Namely, the establishment and implementation of national action plans to develop collective bargaining in member states where collective bargaining coverage is currently less than 80%.

In the first phase of the project partners and experts conducted fieldwork in all CEE countries that focused on the analysis of the state of social dialogue and collective bargaining in the indicated sectors and an analysis of the expectations and needs of national trade unions concerning the implementation of Article 4 (CB development) in CEE countries. The diagnostic phase was concluded with a fieldwork seminar that took place in Belgrade, Serbia on 3-4 September 2024. (…)