The project ELEX aims at preparing Bulgarian and Romanian EWC representatives.

Trade unionists in Bulgaria and Romania are facing new challenges as their countries integrate into the European Union. The social dialogue is a vital element of the new European-level industrial relations environment for these countries. In particular, company level social dialogue through EWCs will have an impact on a wide range of trade union reps and officials beyond the national officers and representatives who are likely to be involved in sectoral and intersectoral social dialogue. Trade unionists need to understand how EWCs work and the potential for trade unions to use EWCs to co-ordinate their responses on major issues such as restructuring. This means not just a comprehension of the legal background to EWCs, how they are established and the general provisions for how they should operate in theory, but also how they operate in practice and how they have been used to represent workers at transnational level during organisational restructuring.

At the end of June in Kiten about 20 Bulgarian Trade union activists took part in the Second ELEX seminar.

!!! - The background study of ELEX project for Bulgaria can be downloaded from here

www.ewc-elex.eu/wp-content/uploads/Background_Study-for-Site-19_12_2008.pdf 

!!! - On the 13th of July 2008 was published the 2nd issue of EWC News for 2008 - see http://www.ewc-news.com/en022008.htm