LITHUANIA

1. Promotion of the Social Dialogue, Strengthening of Workers Organizations and the Collective Representation through Education, Information and Consultation with a Special Focus on Nordic Companies in the Baltic States Socialinio dialogo skatinimas, dirbančiųjų organizuotumo ir kolektyvinio atstovavimo valdymas per mokymus, informaciją ir konsultacijas specialiai koncentruojantis į Šiaurės šalių kapitalo įmones Baltijos šalyse

2. LITHUANIA SECTORS targeted by the project • Commerce • Services • Hotel • Transport • Communication • Construction • Industry radio - electronics

3. Lithuanian trade union of the service employees • Commerce • Services • Hotel • Transport Chairperson Aleksandras Posochovas

4. Commercecoordinator Juozas ADOMAITIS Norfa- 25 members joined the LPSDPS directly (a part of the membership is hidden) Initiator Alma Kemzūrienė

5. STATOIL Previously acting trade union, high turnover of the members, 50 new members during the project Chairperson Aleksandras Posochovas

6. “Rimi Lietuva”Chairperson Pavel Kaplevski New trade union established, 100 members. Trade union activities extend from one supermarket to another. Draft collective agreement is under preparation.

7. Services security guardcoordinator Ridas Pagrandis G4S - Previously acting trade union, high turnover of the members, 50 new members during the project. Security trade union is functioning in several security units, 150 new members during the project

8. Olympic Casino Previously acting trade union, high turnover of the members, 30 new members during the project, in 2008 the collective agreement signed Chairperson Andrei Lipa

9. Hotelcoordinator Mykola Volyckyj Reval Hotel Neris – there was the meeting with the employees, no members yet

10. CommunicationcoordinatorLaura Sadauskaitė Omnitel – there were talks and consultations with the managers and sells-agents, no success as they have very good labour contracts with good social guarantees. “Omnitel salonai” is the daughter Omnitel enterprise – the majority of the employees were working at other enterprises and after transfer they have considerably better working conditions and socialguarantees and see no need to set up trade union “Lietuvos paštas” (Post) - high turnover of the members, 100 members decrease during the project

11. Coordinator Ramūnas Narbutas “YIT Kausta” –the trade union has been set up during the previous stage of the project, chairperson is elected the EWC representative, 50 new members during the present project, the reporting meeting took place, the Statute is perfected, the possibility is foreseen to have the members from the YITsub-contractors, preparation for the collective bargaining agreement “YIT technika” - 300 employees working at the service of the separate facilities engineering systems, hard working conditions, duty shifts, they work individually, it is difficult to organise the meeting, no members

12. Transportcoordinator Ramūnas Narbutas GRT - Previously acting trade union, 2 new members during the project, in 2007 the collective agreement signed JSC Evekas (long-distance drivers mostly working in EU), the preparation process to set up the trade union, 15 members joined the LPSDPS directly (a part of the membership is hidden)

13. Industrycoordinator Ramūnas Narbutas On 7 October in Kaunas the trade union was set up at the joint Lithuanian-Norwegian-Swedish enterprise JSC „Kitron“, ~100 members. The Electronics company employs about 400 workers. On the workers’ initiative there was the attempt made to set up the workers’ council but the administration is against. .

14. Digest • During the Project the LPSK received ~ 500 new members • The results have been achieved after several years of systematic work, the project allowed to activate the work in the concrete sectors • The hand-outs published during the project are used in other sectors • The agitation at the new enterprises that started during the project will be continued and we hope to have the results in the future.