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UNI Europa property services affiliates from seven countries and five companies met in Runö on 4 and 5 June 2013 to exchange experiences and improve their work in their European works councils. Key EWC members from Securitas, Loomis, G4S, ISS as well as trade unions representatives from Prosegur discussed strategies how to use the improved rights of the EWC Directive 2009/38/EC to better tackle the multiple challenges in the property services sector. Participants also discussed the important role of international trade union work and the European trade union federations to facilitate communication of trade unionists across borders and thus strengthen the power of European work council. The importance of building stable and strong trade union alliances/network in the key multinationals of the sectors was also discussed.



This workshop was financially supported by the European Commission and was organised by the property sectors in close cooperation with the Swedish trade union "Swedish Transport Workers Union".



It was the third of the four sectoral workshops organised within the frame of UNI Europa’s project “European Works Councils: "Tools for transnational trade union action in the services and communication sectors". UNI Europa’s Graphical and Packaging sectors will hold a similar seminar at the end of June.



The conclusions of the discussion and the best practices identified will be presented at a final conference on 6-7 November 2013 in Granada, Spain.