BARMETAL

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BARMETAL: Digitalization, Automatization and Decarbonization: Opportunity for strengthening collective bargaining in the metal sector

Project number: 101052331

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The BARMETAL project seeks to analyse the current situation and opportunities for strengthening collective bargaining in the metalworking industry in conditions of technological change, including in particular digitalization, automatization and decarbonization. With this focus, the project directly responds to evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the technology dissemination and the digital transformation of metal, engineering and tech-based industries and workplaces. It has increased the urgency and need for social partners to find joint approaches to manage a swift and sustainable digital transformation.

Ceemet and IndustriAll Europe, the EU-level social partners in the metalworking industry, have published their joint vision of the challenges and opportunities of digitalization for workers and employers. The BARMETAL project responds to these challenges and EU-level priorities in sectoral social dialogue and deepens the expertise in industrial relations by analyzing both the bargaining processes and outcomes (stipulations in collective agreements) across 12 EU Member States and 1 candidate country. The project explores how the challenges for working conditions,
such as intensification of work, vocational education and changing demands for workers’ skills in metalworking companies across the EU create opportunities for strengthening collective bargaining at the workplace and sector levels.

The project places high priority on mutual exchange and learning tools among social partners between those member states that have a highly developed collective bargaining already and those where bargaining needs to be enhanced and strengthened. The BARMETAL project thus provides expertise for enhancing industrial relations and establishes extensive interaction and cooperation between research partners and social partners.

The project will be coordinated by SSSA Pisa and implemented by 8 beneficiaries and 10 associated partners. Wageindicator as one of the beneficiaries takes the lead on analyzing 75 collective agreements in the metal sector in the EU, in particular looking at how these respond to goals and challenges deriving from digitalization, automatization and decarbonization.

Check out the BARMETAL project page at the CELSI website

• Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI)
• Linnaeus University
• ASE Bucuresti
• Instytut Spraw Publicznych
• WageIndicator Foundation
• Ekonomskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Beogradu
• Univerzita Karlova

BARMETAL Kick-Off Meeting - November 22, 2022

• Welcome and opening (.pdf)
• Consortium overview, project structure and key research objectives (.pdf)
• Work Package 2: Conceptualizing digitalization, automatization and decarbonization as opportunities and challenges for adapting collective bargaining in the metal sector (.pdf)
• Work Package 3: Country case studies on collective bargaining processes in the metal sector (.pptx)
• Work Package 4: Collection and analysis of CBAs in the metal sector – bargaining outcomes in response to digitalization, automatization and decarbonization (.pdf)
• Administration and Management (.pdf)

• Austria
  Collective Agreement Database Lohnspiegel.org/Osterreich
• Belgium
  Collective Agreement Database Votresalaire.be
  Collective Agreement Database Loonwijzer.be
  
• Bulgaria
  Collective Agreement Database Moiatazaplata.org
• Croatia
  Collective Agreement Database Mojaplaca.org
  
• Cyprus
  Collective Agreement Database Mywage.org/Cyprus
• Czech Republic
  Collective Agreement Database Mujplat.cz
• Denmark
  Collective Agreement Database Lontjek.dk
• Estonia
  Collective Agreement Database Mysalary.ee
• Finland
  Collective Agreement Database WageIndicator.fi
• France
  Collective Agreement Database Votresalaire.fr
• Germany
  Collective Agreement Database WageIndicator.de  
• Greece
  Collective Agreement Database Mywage.gr
• Hungary
  Collective Agreement Database Berbarometer.hu
• Ireland
  Collective Agreement Database Mywage.org/Ireland
• Italy
  Collective Agreement Database Iltuosalario.it
• Latvia
  Collective Agreement Database Mysalary.lv
• Lithuania
  Collective Agreement Database Mysalary.lt
• Luxembourg
  Collective Agreement Database Lohnspiegel.lu (French)
  Collective Agreement Database Lohnspiegel.lu (German)
• Malta
  Collective Agreement Database Mywage.org/Malta
• Netherlands
  Collective Agreement Database Loonwijzer.nl
• Poland
  Collective Agreement Database Twojezarobki.com
• Portugal
  Collective Agreement Database  Meusalario.org/Portugal
• Romania
  Collective Agreement Database Salarulmeo.ro
• Serbia
  Collective Agreement Database Mojazarada.rs
• Slovakia
  Collective Agreement Database Mojplat.sk
• Slovenia
  Collective Agreement Database Mojaplaca.si
• Spain
  Collective Agreement Database Tusalario.es
• Sweden
  Collective Agreement Database Lonecheck.se
• United Kingdom
  Collective Agreement Database  Wageindicator.co.uk