UNI EUROPA GRAPHICAL SECTOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SURVEY

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1 UNI EUROPA GRAPHICAL SECTOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SURVEY 2008

2 If YOU WERE INVOLVED IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN 2008 THEN PLEASE ANSWER SECTION A. Please complete a separate copy of the questionnaire for each different sector level agreement your union concluded (or is a party) in If YOU WERE NOT INVOLVED IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN 2008 with any, or some, of the national employers associations in the sectors of the graphical industry in which your union has members please answer Section B

3 SECTION A Details of New Sector Level Agreements Made in 2008

4 a) Background Information 1.Country 2. In addition to sector level agreements do your members also benefit from agreements made at? [please tick] Level Yes No Multi/Inter Sector Local/Company 3. Does your country have a system of indexing wage increases to increases in inflation? Yes/No [please circle] b) Your bargaining claims 4. Did your bargaining claim in 2008 include any of the following? [please tick] Subject Yes No Wages Hours of Work Overtime Holidays Vocational Training Equal Treatment Work/Life Balance Occupation Pensions Health & Safety Other If Other Please list the issue(s) 5. If one of your demands was in the field of Wages please state what it was?

5 6. If one of your demands was in the field of Hours of Work, Overtime Working or Holidays please state what it was? 7. If one of your demands was in the field of Further Vocational Training please state what it was? 8. If one of your demands was in the field of Equal Treatment or Work/Life Balance Policies please state what it was? 9. If one of your demands was in the field of Pensions please state what it was? 10. If one of your demands was in the field of Health & Safety please state what it was? 11. If one of your demands was in other areas please state what it was?

6 12. Before the opening of negotiations with the employers did you consult with other individual UNI-EG affiliates? [please tick] Yes No If Yes, which affiliates? How did you inform them? [please tick] Letter Telephone Fax Other If Other please state 13. How long before the opening of negotiations with the employers did you inform UNI- EG of your claims? [please tick] One week Two weeks Three weeks Four weeks Over one month Please state how you informed UNI-EG? [please tick] Letter Telephone Fax Other If Other please state

7 c) Results of Collective Bargaining 14. Sector covered by the new Agreement 15. Start Date of the Agreement 16. Finish Date of the Agreement 17. Number of workers covered by the Agreement 18. What was the agreed percentage wage increase? 19. What was the average annual increase in the level of national productivity at the time of the wage increase? 20. What was the average annual increase in the level of inflation at the time of the wage increase? 21. What was the level of unemployment at the time of the wage increase in Your country as a whole The Graphical Sector [please tick]

8 22. Were there changes to the existing weekly hours of work? 23. Were there changes agreed to existing: a. limits on the amount of paid overtime working hours permitted per year? b. remuneration rates of overtime? c. compensatory time-off for overtime working?

9 24. Were there changes to the existing level of paid holiday entitlement? 25. a. In the preparation for your negotiations aims/guidelines, were equality officers involved? Yes No b. Are equal pay audits to establish existing situations regarding pay undertaken? Yes No If YES, at what level eg national/local. c. What steps has your union taken in recent years to achieve equality of wages between men and women?

10 26. Were changes to existing arrangements with respect to Equal Treatment and/family friendly policies for a good work/life balance agreed? 27. Were changes agreed to existing health and safety provisions? 28. Were changes agreed to existing further vocational training arrangements?

11 29. Were changes agreed to the agreement with respect to existing Occupational Pension Schemes? 30. Were changes made to any other significant parts of the agreement? 31. Does your existing collective agreement contain any provisions for specific training opportunities for older workers? Yes No [please tick] If yes please give details.

12 SECTION B Details of Changes Coming into Operation in 2008 under Existing Agreements made before 2008

13 Existing Agreements with National Graphical Employers Associations 1. Country 2. Did your members receive an increase in wages in 2008 because of an agreement made prior to 2008? YES NO If YES, what was the agreed percentage wage increase? 3. In what sectors of the graphical industry were these increases received? Newspapers General Printing Bookbinding Packaging Other (please specify) 4. On what date did the existing agreement(s) start? 5. On what date does the existing agreement(s) finish? 6. What is the number of workers covered by the Agreement?

14 7. Did any changes in the following areas come into operation in 2008 as a result of an agreement made prior to 2008? Reductions/increases in hours of work Limitations on overtime working Remuneration rates of overtime Compensatory time off for overtime working Increases/decreases in the level of paid holiday entitlement Improvements to vocational training opportunities and arrangements Changes to Occupational Pension Schemes Changes to health and safety provisions Changes in equal treatment and work/life balance policies? Other 8. What was the average annual increase in the level of national productivity in your country at the time of the wage increase? 9. What was the average annual increase in the level of inflation in your country at the time of the wage increase? 10. What was the level of unemployment at the time of the wage increase in: Your country The Graphical Industry [please tick] 11. In addition to the changes in the sector level agreement did your members also benefit, in 2008, from changes to inter/multi sectoral agreements? If Yes please give details

15 12. Does your existing collective agreement contain any provisions for special training opportunities for older workers? Yes No [please tick] If yes please give details. Thank you for your co-operation in completing this questionnaire PLEASE RETURN EACH COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRE BY 1 st September 2008 TO: Nicola Konstantinou UNI Secretary UNI EUROPA Graphical Sector Rue de Hôpital Bruxelles BELGIUM