EUROPEAN MEETING CENTRE - NOWY STAW FOUNDATION
This was already the III conference of the Platform of Young Workers functioning in the frames of EZA (European Centre for Workers` Questions). Conferences are held every two years, this year for the first time in Poland (before: in Brussels and Porto). Young representatives of trade unions, workers` organizations and NGOs exchanged their experiences working in three working groups as well as discussing on forum and listening to speeches of invited guests.
The aim of the project was to analyze the situation of young generation on the labour market. What are the chances of young people on the labour market? Do the young people engage in trade unions` activity? What is the motivation of this activity or its lack? Are the young workers willing to educate? Do they have possibilities to educate? How can they be supported? How to create better possibilities for them?
The conclusions are not very optimistic. Young workers rarely engage in trade unions, often don`t understand their role and don’t see practical profits of being a member of a trade union. Young Poles see even trade unions as a relic of communism. It shows the need of modernization of trade unions and of change of the way the young workers think. The situation of youth on the labour market is particularly difficult, the crisis makes it much worse. Optimistic are new educational solutions generating better chances for young adults on the labour market as f. e. modernization of vocational training in Poland.
The project was organized in cooperation with European Centre for Workers` Questions (EZA)
and was co-financed by the European Union.
