1. Trade Union Training on Economic and Financial Analysis of
Enterprises for Collective Bargaining
(ASIA AND THE PACIFIC REGION - ENGLISH)
28/06/2010 – 16/07/2010 (3 weeks)
Course Orientation

2. Aims of Orientation
1/To understand the background, objectives, contents and expected outputs of this training programme;
2/To take on board participants suggestions and/or specific needs.

3. Background
Rapidly changing World of Work – due to economic, political & technological factors
Impacting labour markets, employment relationships, social protection & social security systems –changing nature of employment in the economy posing challenges for collective bargaining and other rights of workers & industrial relations
Situation has worsened due to the current global economic crisis
Need for reforms in labour laws, social security systems and union strategies
How have unions been responding to these?

4. Thru exchange of experiences & mutual collaborative learning, we will review and build our knowledge on organizing & collective bargaining – understanding wages & productivity policies, company financial information for collective bargaining and strategies for formulating effective charter of demands.
focus also on the global economic crisis, its impact in the world of work and response to the crisis at national and collective bargaining level, ILO’s Global Jobs Pact – as a response to crisis and ILO policies in general for promoting democratic labour relations and Decent Work for all workers.
Your training, we hope, will also contribute towards your unions capacities to play an effective role in tripartite dialogue, bi-partite negotiations and other decision-making processes at the national level with a view to promote decent work for all workers.

5. Objectives of the Course
As part of Actrav’s capacity building initiatives for promotion of Decent Work for All workers, this training is aimed at –
Promoting wider knowledge of current issues facing the labour movement (global economic crisis, climate change, Decent Work, FoA)
Promoting understanding of the ILO principles in the area of collective bargaining and develop negotiation skills for effective collective bargaining
Developing trade union strategies for Decent Work, aimed at promoting FoA, organizing and collective bargaining rights.

6. Key issues to be discussed
Responding to Global Economic Crisis, Employment & Decent Work : Challenges for the labour movement
Current trends in the FoA, Collective Bargaining & industrial relations in Asia-Pacific- Country Situation Review
ILO Principles on Collective Bargaining
Management policies and skills & strategies for CB at enterprise level
Global Wage Trends and role of Collective Bargaining in shaping wage Policies
Law & Collective Bargaining in Italy
Balance Sheet Analysis & its use for collective bargaining

7. Key issues to be discussed
Understanding Productivity & Negotiating Productivity linked wage agreements
Preparation of Charter of demands
Precarious work: Union strategies & initiatives
Collective bargaining in European countries
IFAs & role of national level unions
Changing Employment Relationships, Collective bargaining rights & ILO Recommendation No. 198
Tackling Discrimination at work: Mainstreaming Gender concerns in Collective Bargaining
FoA & Organizing: the pathway to Decent Work for Workers
Promoting FoA & Decent Work in A-P

8. Main Outputs Expected
Preparation of follow up work plans to strengthen national trade unions work on reforms of labour law, organizing and social protection of workers - these plans will be used for evaluation purposes for any future follow-up seminar.
Strengthening of Asia-pacific Regional Educational Network on Workers Rights – to share experiences, news and promote campaigns on workers rights, social security and sharing of information on developments on trade union rights front with the labour movement across the globe
…more on all this later

9. 3rd Week (12-16 July 2010) Study Visit to Tokyo (JILAF)
Focus of the study visit:
General overview of Japanese industrial relations systems and key challenges before Japanese unions
Social dialogue and tripartism in Japan
Collective bargaining system in Japan and how do Japanese unions negotiate wages and productivity agreements?
Interaction with plant level Japanese union

10. Evaluation Feedback is welcome on daily-basis
Daily Summary – by participants
Weekly & End of the course evaluation
Post-course evaluation to be conducted one year after the completion of the course
Feedback is welcome on daily-basis

11. Role of Participants
Be active & participative in all activities through out the course – your experience is also a source of education for all, including us!
Be PUNCTUAL! – please….. 
Form a 2 member Daily Report Team – to take notes of, summarize major points & key issues of each training session – the team will change daily & will present the summary of previous day’s training sessions every day at 8.30 a.m.
Start thinking of your Project Work Plan Ideas

12. Any Questions?