Event Human Rights Enhancing the Collective Bargaining and Negotiation Skills of Chemicals Union Members 11.07.2019 Training the chemicals unions’ leaders for the upcoming negotiations of the collective labor contracts agreement that will be discussed in 2020 In cooperation with FES Lebanon and IndustriAll, the Union of Chemicals organized a 3 days’ workshop on collective labor agreements’ negotiations and bargaining. The importance of these collective contracts is to regulate the labor relations between employers and workers and to protect the rights of the parties in written and documented contracts. The workshop covered the laws and regulations governing collective labor contracts as well as mediation and arbitration. The following unions participated in the training: Petroleum Companies Union Petroleum Companies Association Union of Petroleum Workers Gas Workers' Union Workers Syndicate of the Chekka cement factory Union of the Seblin cement factory Electrical Tools Workers Syndicate Plastic Lab Workers Union Workers Syndicate of Paints
