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2020 : The birth of In Defense of Workers

Are you a trade unionist in a multinational company ? In a trade union federation ?

Are you a member of a European Works Council ? An employee representative on a management board ?

Or are you facing restructuring measures ...

Welcoming Romuald!

Introducing our new member! Romuald Jagodziński

An independent expert, researcher in European industrial relations and trainer working with trade unions in supporting European Works Councils and democracy at work. Between 2006 and 2022, he worked at the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels as senior researcher. Romuald conducted research on transnational workers’ representation and European Works Councils, with a special focus on implementation of EWC directive, access to justice for EWCs, EWC litigation, enforcement and jurisprudence (EWC jurisprudence database project as part of the EWC database, www.ewcdb.eu). He also ran a portal on workers’ information and consultation rights (https://lnkd.in/dW6BG7C), advised EWCs and trade unions as well as contributed to EWC training. Among others he co-authored the largest EWC survey (2018) and two publications on it (‘Can anybody hear us?’, 2019; ‘European Works Councils: contested and still in the making’, 2021) as well as ‘EWCs access to justice’, 2023. In 2022 he started his own company Labour SUREAL (Support, Research and Analysis, www.labour-sureal.eu) which provides EWCs, workers representatives and trade unions with research, expert advice and training services.

WELCOME TO INDEWO, ROMUALD!

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Müller-Knapp Hjort Wulff Partnerschaft (Germany)

The law firm Müller-Knapp Hjort Wulff Partnerschaft in Hamburg

is a founding member of the nationwide cooperation "Arbeitnehmer-Anwälte" (established 2001).

Together with the cooperation we organise the effective representation of employee interests nationwide. The cooperation also contributes to the legal and legal-political discussion across all cases. The lawyers of the cooperation stand by all employees, works councils, general, group and European works councils as well as staff councils and employee representatives and representatives of severely disabled persons at all levels as committed and competent representatives of their interests. The lawyers are also available to support the trade unions with their expertise, experience and commitment.

The cooperation is currently present in the following German cities:

Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Münster, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Mannheim, Nuremberg, Ansbach, Stuttgart, Munich and Freiburg.

The LBBa law firm (France)

The LBBa Law Firm has a recognized expertise in individual and collective labour relations, both in consulting and litigation. For over twenty years, it has been advising employee representatives of numerous companies, of all sizes and in all sectors.

The LBBa law firm, registered as a training provider, runs seminars and training courses for elected officials and trade union representatives.

Its offices are in Paris, Rennes and Nantes. Its lawyers travel throughout France to represent the firm's clients before the courts or to assist them in negotiations with their management.

LBBa also has European experience as an expert for numerous European Works Councils in various sectors such as energy, cash-in-transit and insurance.

Progress Lawyers Network (Belgium)

PROGRESS Lawyers Network (PLN) was established in 2003 as a network of progressive law firms in Brussels and Antwerp. Our network is aimed at lawyers, jurists, students, university collaborators and human rights activists, active both in Belgium and abroad.

In our law practice, we focus on four branches of law: social law, criminal law, aliens law and family law. In recent years, the lawyers in our network have defended workers who opposed the closure of their companies, such as Crown Cork, as well as many dismissed trade unionists. We have initiated proceedings against Adecco for discrimination. In 2015, thanks to the intervention of the Progress Lawyers Network, we obtained the annulment of the data retention law in the Constitutional Court. Our lawyers supported various actions of undocumented migrants. We have defended activists, among others in the so-called "patatistes" (anti-GMO activists) trial. At the international level, we have also intervened in proceedings alongside asbestos victims.

Syndex (France)

Syndex is a European consultancy firm (45 years of experience) with more than 400 specialized consultants, providing assistance to social partners on a wide range of economic and social issues. It places its expertise at the service of European and national social partners, sectoral social partner committees and European and national public institutions, with the aim of fostering social dialogue and contributing to the promotion of a social Europe. Syndex has its headquarters in Paris and has offices in Bucharest, Brussels, Dublin, London, Madrid, and Warsaw. It also has a network of local experts in many other EU countries.

Syndex’ skills in Europe are based on top-level consultants specialized in various sectors of the global economy including the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, rubber and plastics, energy, manufacturing, ICT, finance and retail.

A self-governing organization since its creation, Syndex made the natural choice of becoming a worker cooperative in 2011, thereby reaffirming its democratic convictions. Since its creation, it has been proving daily that a professional structure can combine collective interest and economic balance.