Final conference of the joint UNI Europa and COZZ project: Bridging the gap

Over the last four years joint UNI Europa and COZZ project called “Bridging the gap – increasing the knowledge and skills of Central European employees in representation in international companies” took place. The overall goal of the project was to develop the capacity of trade unions and workers’ representatives to increase their involvement in their workplaces, namely multinational corporations operating in the four above mentioned countries in the care, commerce, finance, graphical & packaging and ICT sectors. COZZ conducted 43 training workshops in Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia and trained hundreds of workers.

The project concluded with Final Conference with 86 participants from 7 countries.

Dana Burikova, in a video made during final conference, shared her reflections on increasing representation and social dialogue: “Basically, don’t be afraid to state your legitimate claims. And the more people say it, the more it’s heard, and we win and we’re really going to get what we want”. Others shared their stories with us as well, you can watch it on Youtube.