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own transition towards sustainability and benefit the social dialogue in the
long-term. The company’s remuneration structure has incorporated bonuses
tied to performance on sustainability targets for higher-ranking employees.
However, overall income levels have not changed significantly 66 .
Social dialogue centre in the glass industry, Poland
In 2004, the employers’ organisation PolskieSzkło (Polish glass industry),
the Federation of Trade Unions in Chemicals, Ceramics and Glass, and the
Secretariat of the Glass Industry NSZZ Solidarność signed a framework
agreement on autonomous dialogue in the glass sector. The agreement
provides for two annual meetings between representatives of employers and
employees at which the major problems affecting the glass sector are
discussed. This agreement has enabled common positions to be developed
on environmental legislation and CO2 quotas allocated to the sector. The
social partners have created a Glass Industry Social Dialogue Centre with
aid from the European Social Fund. The remit of the centre is fourfold: to
constantly improve social dialogue in the glass industry; to carry out
economic and technical analyses on the basis of the work by the social
partners and relevant experts; to develop e-dialogue technologies; and to
prepare training courses for employers and employees on topics relating to
the glass industry (essentially, environmental issues and social dialogue) 67 .
AENA Airports Inc. (AENA), Spain
AENA is a Spanish state-owned company that operates Barcelona's El Prat
airport. Along with public agencies and trade unions, AENA has promoted
the development of a mobility plan to boost sustainable mobility for
the 21,000 commuters who travel daily to workplaces within the airport's
facilities. The case study showed that the development of the mobility plan,
as opposed to mobility patterns dominated by private motor vehicles, clearly
improved and increased public transport services, reduced harmful
environmental effects, generated social and economic benefits and created
new jobs in transport companies. AENA has managed to induce a cultural
shift among airport employees. It encouraged a move from a culture based
on the use of private vehicles to a sustainable mobility culture based on
public transport. Sustainable mobility could not become a reality without
the active participation of the different agents in the mobility commission,
including workers'representatives, employers, public agencies, transport
operators, the Association for the Promotion of Public Transport (an NGO)
and the external mobility consultant (ALG) 68 .
66 Case taken from Eurofound 2012a.
67 Example taken from Syndex 2011.
68 Case taken from Eurofound 2012a. The same case, with many similar others about sustainable transport to the
workplace, is referred to in the study "European Commuters for Sustainable Mobility Strategies" (ECOSMOS) carried
out with the support of the Commission by a number of trade unions (CCOO, CGIL, ABVV and Auto Club Europa -
DGB).
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