Latvian Labor Union Links

by Gundars Kaupins, Boise State University

Being Updated March 2007-December  2007

The purpose of this link page is to provide useful business links associated with Latvia.  There is no commercial purpose or personal financial gain from this link page.  Most links include a title, languages used, services, and a brief description of the mission and purpose of the site.  Services include search engines, blogs, on-line polls, site of origin (e.g., .lv, .com, .net) and transactions.  Transactions could be nonfinancial (e.g., registration) to financial (e.g., payment of fees) Almost every brief description is a direct quote from the link.  Most of these direct quotes will refer to either the mission or objectives of the link.

Central and Eastern Europe--Trade Union Education Network (E) "The project aims to strengthen trade union organizations in Central and Eastern Europe by emphasizing the importance of trade union education. Closer cooperation between the education departments (and teams) will enable them to enlarge their training possibilities and improve the skills of the trainers. The project will help them to develop their activities on a larger base, and also to be more efficient in current and new training programs. Particular attention will be paid to three issues: integration of equality concern into negotiation of collective agreements, organizing non-organized workers (employees) and better knowledge of the European Social "model" to develop organizations’ own experience and practice. Two additional modules are included in this project - on training of trainers and analysis of education strategies - which should facilitate the implementation of a "multiplier effect" and ensure follow-up of this program after the two years foreseen for it."

ESTIA in Latvia (E)  Access to law on trade unions

European Information Center (E) "The National Board of Trade is a governmental agency and the central administrative body in Sweden dealing with foreign trade and trade policy. The Board provides the Government with analyses and recommendations. Within the framework of the European Union, the Board works for an effective Internal Market, an open trade policy in the EU and a strengthened multilateral trading system within the WTO. The Board also acts as ombudsman for free trade and free movement within the EU as partners of the SOLVIT network. This connects governmental agencies across Europe helping companies and individuals caught between differing regulatory systems."

Free Trade Union Federation of Latvia (E) "Latvian Free Trade Union Federation unites trade unions for the implementation of common tasks, to protect labor, economic and social rights and interests of trade union members and take part in the development of legal state and the democratic society."

Europeanforum Latvia (E)  A summary of the political landscape of Latvia including unions.

Global Unions (E) "Increasingly, the name “Global Unions” is being used for the major institutions of the international trade union movement. Global Unions comprises: 1. the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), which represents most national trade union centers. Most individual unions relate to the ICFTU through their national union centre.  2. The ten Global Union Federations (GUFs), the international representatives of unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups. 3. The Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD."

Latvian Development Agency  (Lv, E)  Business opportunities, investment projects, Latvian business guide, business environment links

Trade Unions On-line (E) Cornell University listing of trade unions in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia

Vision Baltic Sea 2010 (E) For Employment, Social Democracy and a common development perspective for the people in the Baltic Sea Area

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