CONSULTATION, PARTICIPATION AND CO-OPERATION BETWEEN WINSTONE PULP INTERNATIONAL, THE NDU AND THE EPMU

Contents

1. Introduction, Purpose and Background
   • Introduction
   • Purpose
   • About the parties and the industry
   • The pulp industry
   • Winstone Pulp International
   • The National Distribution Union
   • The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union
   • Unions working together
   • Method
2. What Motivates the Parties to Work Together?
   • A shared vision.
   • WPI’s motivations
   • The unions’ motivations
   • Implementing the preamble
3. The Collective Agreement
   • Site Consultative/Participative Committee
   • Sick leave
   • Recruitment and promotion
   • Shift rosters
   • Salarisation and skill-based pay
   • Self-managed teams and key performance indicators
   • Training
   • Staffing levels
4. The Parties’ Relationship Today and the Challenges Ahead
   • Communication
   • Overtime
   • Making self-managed teams work in maintenance
   • The challenge for middle managers
   • Training
5. Conclusions: Lessons and Reflections
   • Employers benefit from well-organised unions
   • Your issues are my issues
   • Develop a framework that supports working together
   • Create depth of understanding about change
   • Concluding comments
   • Appendix: Acknowledements and List of Interviewees

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