LCompany managers and staff representatives should agree to develop professional dialogue, that is to say the direct participation of workers. The challenge is the development of people and organizations; essential to improve the quality of work.
This professional dialogue should allow workers to reflect on work within teams, with local managers: on the way it is organized, the sequencing of tasks, work rhythms, versatility, work quality criteria for customers, patients or users, and for the preservation of the environment.
Communication is sometimes abundant in companies, but this does not make workers the actors of their own work, of technological or organizational transformations, of their future and that of their company. This generates frustration.
Social and economic progress
The news shows that the needs of employees are above all material in a period of uncertainty and accelerated increase in consumer prices. But the possibility for everyone to find fulfillment through work, to be recognized by their peers and managers, to be able to work with confidence remains essential. Democracy cannot function only at the level of society. It must develop in the company by strengthening the direct participation of workers.
A strong trade union strategy of supporting direct worker participation can be a path for the renewal of trade unionism; for a trade unionism capable of reconnecting with its base
This is the joint responsibility of leaders and trade unionists. The common interest is that of social and economic progress; a fair balance of progress for individuals and for organisations. This method based on professional dialogue avoids locking oneself in or opposing work organization models that are too abstract for workers.
It is through the direct participation of workers that autonomy at work occurs and that we can become part of a learning organization. It is in the interest of the company to establish truly continuous progress and to succeed in its technological or organizational transformations.
In the period, it is also an issue for the attractiveness of jobs. Unions should support this development of a constructive professional dialogue, in the interest of workers, but also that of unions, in order to reverse a curve of deunionization which can lead to the collapse of solidarity between the different components of the world. work.
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