UNI Post and Logistics Global Union

Version: Draft Date: 03 April, 2012

Post & Logistics Action Plan for the MENA-MED Region

1 General action points Establish a communications/follow-up network/committee in the MENA-MED region o Share information o Solidarity o Joint activities and actions Develop women and youth networks in the region Innovations Develop joint actions with EUROMED Postal Support development of country specific innovations o Who: Trade unions, union activists + UNI o When: 1 year Workshop on restructuring & change (Tunisia) o Who: Trade unions + UNI o When: 2012-2013 Widen IFS system o Who: union activists, trade unions + UNI o When: 1 year Make contact with other MENA-MED based unions Training sessions between workers and employers (social dialogue) Working group on social dialogue Other goals & actions Create Arab Postal Observatory Training centre to organise joint meetings with unions

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Liberalisation, privatisation and regulation Research and evaluate postal market regulation and legislation in the region List situation country-by-country in terms of (1) regulation; (2) independence of regulator; (3) Social aspects of legislation in the region Change legislation in Lebanon, Jordan, Algeria and Morocco Enforce the monopoly on postal services o Who: UPU + UNI + unions o When: one year Review tariffs on postal services o Who: UPU + UNI + unions o When: one year Encourage postal operators to invest outside the traditional postal sector o Who: UPU + UNI + unions Create a questionnaire on regulation and universal postal service o Who: UNI P&L + UNI MENA Technical and administrative training and development of skills o When: one year Distribute proposals for good regulation and postal legislation Workshop on protecting public postal service and innovations o Who: UNI P&L o When: 2012 Exchanging experiences between countries o Who: All unions o When: 1-2 years Distribute examples of good postal legislation o Who: All unions o When: 1 year Develop plans with network members on how to work with their governments to get decent postal regulation and legislation implemented Guarantee union freedoms and right to strike o Who: UNI, unions o When: 2012-2013 Develop one unique goal for all countries Letter with recommendations on postal regulation from the UPU/ILO/UNI o When: 2012-2013 Day of action on 9 October, 2012, World Post Day, on liberalisation & privatisation o Who: MENA office o When: 9 October 2012

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Organising from the ground up

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Mapping of the global companies in the countries represented by the network Assess geographical distribution and number of workers and potential to organise Mapping of companies represented by the network List all the European Works Councils in our sector o Who: national unions Include all the trade unions active in the sector in our work, both national unions and confederations Questionnaire to each union with questions about their sector of activity, union density, hours of work, political etc. o When: end of 2012 Development of realistic organising plan Conduct an assessment of multinationals to assess violations of the work code Have someone in the union responsible for organising work Define a realistic organising target Change the mentality about organising workers in DHL and other multinationals within our unions Hold awareness campaign about unionisation in multinationals with flyers in 3 languages o Who: MENA P&L o When: On May 1, 2013 What resources (people, money, material) do you have for organising? What resources are you missing?

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-Need financial, logistics and material support (reports from UNI and statistics) -Unions have human resources but workers require capacity-building -Need financial support through seminars, training etc. -Unions need budget dedicated to organising new people into our unions -Need training for organising train special people, normal people from the union to organise -Pay the legal costs when organisers have problems, when members have problems

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