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News Release from: Amicus
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 March 2004
Union And Employers Partnership To Boost
Printing
Radical moves to improve the print industry have been agreed under a new partnership between the GPMU and the BPIF.
Radical moves to improve the print industry have been agreed under a new partnership between the GPMU and the BPIF The package to boost productivity and the working environment has received the backing of the government with ?250,000 of funding
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Three companies have agreed to act as partnership case studies - Pindar Set, TJ International and Bemrose Booth.
Success of the project will be measured by a survey of employers and employees to assess the impact on their relationships and the extent to which effective partnerships are evolving on the ground.
The government's funding will be matched by contributions by the industry.
"The GPMU welcomes the approval to fund this major project to tackle the industry's productivity and competitiveness while improving work-life balance and the working environment.
We look forward to working in partnership with the BPIF in the best interests of the industry and those who work in it," said GPMU general secretary Tony Dubbins.
Employment Relations Minister Gerry Sutcliffe has congratulated the BPIF and the GPMU for putting forward the proposal.
"The significance, not only for the UK printing industry, but also for employment relations in smaller firms cannot be under-estimated," he said.
"We're impressed that these two organisations are coming together to tackle these issues and hope the project will lead to best practice that other industries could follow." The review body for the project has already been appointed and includes 10 GPMU officials.
An independent chairman will now be appointed jointly by the BPIF and GPMU.
The project started in November 2003 and will conclude in a joint national launch conference in January 2005.
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