IG Metall Küste/Agentur für Struktur- und Personalentwicklung GmbH Heino Bade/Thorsten Ludwig IndustriALL Global Union World Conference on Shipbuilding-Shipbreaking Section 2: Organizing and Fighting against Precarious Work 10-12 November 2014 Huis Ten Bosch/Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Content 1. The German shipbuilding industry: Selcted facts & figures 2. Fighting against precarious work in German shipbuilding: The case of subcontract workers 2
Apr. 100.000 employees are working in German shipbuilding industry German shipbuilding: Employment 2008-2014 120.000 100.000 80.000 4.003 6.207 20.530 3.990 6.101 17.446 2.269 2.419 3.276 2.770 4.691 2.519 4.206 6.497 7.140 6.182 16.760 16.351 16.852 15.753 15.171 temporary workers 60.000 sub-contract workers 40.000 78.000 72.000 70.000 70.000 68.000 68.000 68.000 permanant staff shipyards 20.000 maritime suppliers 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Apr. 70% of production for export Source: IG Metall Küste (2014): Annual shipbuilding survey, Hamburg 3
Employment in German shipyards (2008-2014) 35.000 30.000 Employees 25.000 20.000 15.000 10.000 5.000 temporary workers sub-contract workers direct employees Share in % 0 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 37% temporary workers sub-contract workers direct employees Source: IG Metall Küste (2014): Annual shipbuilding survey, Hamburg 4
Shipyard employees: Selected facts 99 % of the permanent staff is working in shipyards covered by collective agreements. Apr. 13% of the permanent staff are working under conditions above the regulations of the collective agreements. 32% of the engineers/technicians are covered by regulations above the collective agreements. The share of female employees stays unchanged at 10%. 25% of the employees of German shipyards are working as engineers or technicians. Only 4% of the employees are covered by time-limited working-contracts. Apr. 20% of the new hired permanent staff were temporary workers before. 50% of all shipyards have problems to recruit qualified staff. Nearly 30% of all shipyard workers are involved in naval shipbuilding. Orderbook 2009: 106 ships (9,7 bill. ); Orderbook 2013: 46 ships (9,3 bill. ) Source: IG Metall Küste (2014): Annual shipbuilding survey, Hamburg 5
Temporary workers: Decreasing quota since 2012 Quota of temporary workers: 14.2% Increasing usage of temporary workers in Engineering Collective agreement for temporary workers is used in all shipyards Quotas of temporary workers in German shipyard industry in % (2008 2014) Usage of temporary workers by area in % 20,0 18,0 16,0 14,0 12,0 16,6 10,4 11,9 12,9 16,3 14,9 14,2 10,0 8,0 6,0 4,0 2,0 0,0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Source: IG Metall Küste (2014): Annual shipbuilding survey, Hamburg 6
Employment-structure in German shipyards in 2014 Employment in German shipyards by status of employment (in sum: 23.872 emloyees) 11% 26% 63% permanant staff sub-contract workers temporary workers Source: IG Metall Küste (2014): Annual shipbuilding survey, Hamburg 7
Content 1. The German shipbuilding industry: Selcted facts & figures 2. Fighting against precarious work in German shipbuilding: The case of sub-contract workers 8
Forms of precarious work Time limited contracts Part-time employment Temporary work Indirect employment through intermediary Subordinate an dependent contractors disguised as autonomous workers Not really a problem in shipbuilding Mainly problematic in the case of social security (general minimum wages in 2015) Regulated by collective agreements with IG Metall some problems remain typically used by sub-contracors collective agreements on yard-level Not really a problem in shipbuilding 9
Fighting against precarious work: The case of Meyer Werft 25 % of the value added is procuced by the Meyer Werft 75 % of the value added is produced by sub-contractors/suppliers Average employment-structure of Meyer Werft in 2013 : 3.200 employees (permanent staff) 300 apprentices 630 temporary workers 1.500 sub-contract workers (Source: Task-Force-Report, p. 8ff.) 10
Fighting against precarious work: The case of Meyer Werft Apr. 2.000 companies are working with Meyer Werft In 2013 Meyer Werft registered 7.913 person allowed to work on the yard (without apprentices, permanent staff and visitors) Apr. 1.500 of them came from Bulgaria and Romania 21 sub-contractors which mainly hired people from Eastern Europe have been evaluated by the Task-Force Evaluation-criteria (01.03.2013 31.08.2013): Working times Payment OHS Usage of the yard's infrastructure 11
Fighting against precarious work: Living conditions of sub-contract workers in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 12
Fighting against precarious work: The case of Meyer Werft Sub-contract workers: Presence times on the Meyer Werft (01.03.-31.08.2013) Collective agreement in autumn 2013 on minimum standards for sub-contract workers, working times, controlling of living conditions by public administration etc. Source: TASK-Force-Report 13
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