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Fundacion 1° de Mayo / The Primero de Mayo Foundation
- Address :
- C/Arenal, 11-1 A
- 28013 Madrid
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Spain
- Contact person :
- Ramon Baeza Sanjuan, Director of European Studies
- Phone: +34 913640601
- Fax: +34 913641350
- Email:rbaeza@ccoo.es
- Website:http://www.1mayo.org/
Short description
The Primero de Mayo Foundation was created in 1988 by the Spanish trade union Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.) It started its work as a cultural foundation which had as main aim to recover the history of the trade unions in Spain, especially after the Spanish Civil War. Since then it keeps the archives of the history of the trade unions and also those of the Spanish emigration. Only in 1996 labour relations research has been structurally initialised at the foundation. It has around 20 people staff out of which 5 (to 7) researchers. The rest is administrative personnel and people dealing with the archives. The Primero de Mayo foundation has a Board of Managers that meets once a year to outline the foundations policies and that consists for 75% of trade union leaders and for 25% of university teachers. One of the most important aims of the Foundation is to create and strengthen the link between trade unions and the academic world. When doing research, an academic is always involved in order to provide another point of view. The CC.OO contributes financially to the foundation by covering its structural expenses (15-20% of the overall budget) and by financing specific projects. As for the rest of the budget, there are two main channels of financing - one is the yearly support by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and the other one is the regular contribution of the Saving Bank. The Saving Bank does not set any lines of research for its financing whereas the Foundation has to negotiate with the Ministry every year the research topics for which it is going to use the money. Usually these are topics that are of particular interest to both parties - the Ministry and the Foundation One considerable advantage of working with the Ministry is that it gives the researchers of the Foundation access to data which would be otherwise very difficult or even impossible to acquire and, on the other hand, the Foundation offers a wide network of research based in the trade union activity.
Areas of expertise and competencies
The foundation's research is mainly focused on Spain, often very applied and including case studies. The main areas of activity are:
1) Public policies at territorial level such as policies for the promotion of employment in Spain, policies to promote the reconciliation of work and family life, policies to promote the social integration of immigrant workers
2) Labour relations including collective bargaining, labour relations & workers' participation, restructuring process and workers' participation
3) Labour market
4) Corporate social responsibility etc.
Contact details of researchers:
Senior researcher: Fernando Rocha Sánchez
Researchers:
Work programme, strategic plan, projects
Here are translations of the titles of the studies and projects per research area:
(1) Public policies at territorial level.
(a) Policies for the promotion of employment in Spain:
• Analysis of regional employment pacts and measures to promote employment in the Autonomous Communities. (Aragón, J.; Rocha, F.; & Torrents, J; 2000) .
• Analysis of the process of evaluation of policies to promote employment at regional level, including the design of a methodology for evaluating the implementation of regional employment agreements. (Aragón, J; & Rocha, F.; 2001).
• Analysis of measures to promote employment at local level. (Aragón, J.; Rocha, F.; & Fernández, A.; 2002).
• Feasibility study of local and regional employment indicators. (Aragón, J; y Rocha, F.; 2003.b).
• The commitment to be actively available for work and employment policy in Spain. (Aragón, J.; Rocha, F.; Santana, A.; & Torrents, J., 2007).
• Active employment policies addressed to vulnerable groups: strengthening their access to the labour market. (Research in progress).
(b) Policies to promote the reconciliation of work and family life
• Analysis of policies for reconciliation of work and family life at regional level in Spain. (Aragón, J.; Cánovas, A & Rocha, F., 2005).
(c) Policies to promote the social integration of immigrant workers
• Analysis of .policies to promote the social integration of immigrant workers at regional level in Spain. (Aragón, J.; Bonino, C.; & Rocha, F., 2004.a).
• Analysis of .policies to promote the social integration of immigrant workers at local level in Spain. (Research in progress).
(2) Labour Relations.
(a) Collective bargaining.
• Gender equality and collective bargaining. (Bonino, C.; & Aragón, J., 2003).
• Territorial cohesion and collective bargaining. (Aragón, J.; Rocha, F. & Bonino, C., 2003).
• The role of collective bargaining in the regulation of fixed term contracts. (Rocha, F.; Colado, A. & Aragón, J., 2006).
• The Social Care sector and collective bargaining. (Aragón, J.; Cruces, J. & Rocha; F., 2007).
(b) Labour relations & Workers’ Participation.
• European Works Council in Spain. (Aragón, J.; Estrada, B.; Rocha, F. & Sanz, E., 2001).
• Workers’ participation in technological innovation. (Aragón, J.; Durán, A.; Rocha, F.; & Cruces, J., 2005).
(c) Restructuring process and workers participation
• The role of labour relations in company merges and acquisitions: some case studies. (Aragón, J.; & Rocha, F.; 2002 and 2003).
• Business relocation and labour relations in Spain. (Aragón, J.; Rocha, F. & de la Fuente, L.; 2007).
• Relocation processes in enterprises of call centres services. (Aragón, J.; Martínez, A.; de la Fuente, L. & Rocha, F.; 2007).
(3) Labour market.
• Changes in production and the labour market in Spain. (Aragón, J.; Rocha, F. & Cruces, J., 2008) (forthcoming).
• European integration and labour relations: A Spanish perspective. (Aragón, J.; Rocha, F. & Torrents, J.; 1999).
(4) Corporate social responsibility.
• CSR in Spain: a general approach from the labour perspective. (Aragón, J. & Rocha, F., 2004).
• Labour dimension of CSR in Spain: some case studies. (Aragón, J.; Cruces, J. & Rocha, F. , 2005)
(5) Other recent projects.
• The role of savings banks in social cohesion and industrial development. (Aragón, J.; Bedia, P.; Martínez, J. M. & Moreno, C., 2005).
• Labour conditions in the Social Care sector: a general approach to the employment quality. (Aragón, J; Cruces, J.; & Rocha, F. (forthcoming).
• CCOO Monitoring Centre on Trade Union Affiliation: The purpose of this monitoring centre is the analysis of the trade union membership trends in Spain and research into proactive strategies to strengthen the number of members.
Publications, language, newsletter
Publications are only in Spanish, and can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.1mayo.org/
For the translation of the titles of studies and projects, please see under Work Programme.
Other networks the institute is participating in
The foundation is member of The Global Union Research Network (GURN) which is a platform for trade unionists and researchers dealing with the challenges of globalization from a labour perspective.