On 22 July 2016, the ENEL Group’s World Works Council held its annual meeting in Rome to study issues that had arisen in ENEL plants around the world and to develop the renewal of the Global Framework Agreement. The annual meeting was attended by company and union representatives from ENEL’s operations around the world. During the meeting, union members from Latin America raised several issues facing unions in
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the region. Two months earlier, in April 2016, the ENEL Group’s union network in Latin America met to prepare for the meeting in Rome and to develop a mechanism to ensure effective compliance with the Global Framework Agreement, establishing a system of rotation for participation in the meetings whereby all Latin American affiliates are represented.7 This Global Framework Agreement is currently being renegotiated.
Global Framework Agreement with the GDF SUEZ-ENGIE Group
The Global Framework Agreement (called the “Global Agreement on Fundamental Rights, Social Dialogue and Sustainable Development”) was concluded in 2010 between the management of the GDF SUEZ Group
– the second largest gas, water and electricity utility in the world – and Public Services International, IndustriALL and Building and Wood Workers’ International.
The text of the agreement can be found at this link: https://publicservices.international/resources/news/gdf-suez-global-agree�ment-on-fundamental-rights-social-dialogue-and-sustainable-development-2010?id=8599&lang=en
The Agreement applies to all GDF SUEZ Group companies and to the Group’s current and future workers, subcontractors and suppliers. By virtue of this Agreement, the Group is committed to a set of principles relating to equal opportunities and treatment, respect for trade union rights, training, health and safety at work, stable – including direct – and sustainable employment, and the fight against climate change. It also states the intention to adopt
additional, more specific agreements to ensure full compliance with all the agreements. To guarantee the effectiveness and implementation of the Agreement, a reference group was set up comprising representatives of GDF SUEZ and the signatory international union federations, with the participation of other union representatives as agreed by the parties, with appropriate geographical representation.
7. IndustriALL article: http://www.industriall-union.org/enel-global-works-council-meets-to-negotiate-agree� ment-renewal
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PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TRADE UNION ACTION: International Human Rights Instruments
