CAMS
Funded by:
European Commission
DG Employment and Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
Industrial Relations and Social Dialogue project
Social dialogue and the changing role of Conciliation, Arbitration Mediation Services in Europe (CAMS)
The CAMS project aims to help social partner organisations understand the changing role of industrial conflict arbitration, conciliation and mediation in a European context where a general decline in collective action since the 1980s and a rising trend in individual social conflicts has seen the existing institutions providing conflict conciliation, arbitration and mediation services adjusting their roles in relation to the social partners and to social dialogue.
The project partners represent a range of actors, interests and experts based in five countries – France, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK. They comprise two university-based research organisations (Working Lives Research Institute, UK and France; ICS Lisbon University, Portugal) a research centre working directly for a trade union (IRES Emilia-Romagna, Italy), a UK largely publicly-funded but independent authority, ACAS, and a trade union (NSZZ Solidarnosc Poland).
In each of these five countries the partners will be guided by expert Advisory Boards and will prepare national reports and hold two social partner workshops of public authority agency practitioners, users and industrial relations experts to critically discuss and amend the national reports and to discuss presentations of experiences from other countries. An international workshop will also bring together the public authorities involved in conciliation, arbitration and mediation with social partner users from the five countries. Recommendations and a short summary will be distributed in each of the five languages at the end of the project.
The national reports, the international report and the national recommendations will be made available on the CAMS project web site: www.industrialconflictconciliation.eu, which will also carry data and helpful links to information on European trends in industrial conflict and conciliation.
For more information in the UK please contact:
Steve Jefferys s.jefferys@londonmet.ac.uk Fiona Neathey fneathey@acas.org.uk
Sonia McKay s.mckay@londonmet.ac.uk Gill Dix gdix@acas.org.uk