Sindicatul IT Timișoara
The Romanian IT Union (Romanian: Sindicatul IT Timișoara; SITT) is Romania's first trade union for people working in the IT and outsourcing sector. It represents 3,000 workers at four different firms; Nokia, Wipro, Accenture and Atos.[1]
| Sindicatul IT Timișoara | |
 Florentin Iancu at a UNI Global Union conference for unionised tech workers. | |
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president | Florentin Iancu |
| Affiliations | Cartel Alfa, UNI Global |
History
SITT was formed in 2009, when a French European Works Council member at Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia) notified Romanian workers of the company's plans to outsource one third of all jobs to the Romanian branch of Wipro. SITT organized strike actions, hired a legal team (rare in Romania) and signed a collective agreement with Alcatel-Lucent on 22 December 2009, a few days before the outsourcing was finalised. SITT continues to represent workers at both Alcatel-Lucent and Wipro, taking a geographic approach instead of a typical firm-enterprise approach to labour organising.[1] In 2011, Romania changed its labour code, raising the threshold for companies to recognise unions to 50% of workers. In 2012, SITT won representation of workers at Accenture.[2] In 2017, workers of Atos won legal recognition by SITT.[1]
Affiliation
SITT is affiliated with the Romanian national trade center Cartel Alfa and the global union federation UNI Global Union.[1]
See also
References
- Donna, Baines; Ian, Cunningham (2020-11-09). Working in the Context of Austerity: Challenges and Struggles. Policy Press. ISBN 978-1-5292-0869-6.
- Trif, Aurora; Stoiciu, Victoria (2017), Bernaciak, Magdalena; Kahancová, Marta (eds.), "Turning crisis into opportunity: innovation within the Romanian trade union movement" (PDF), Innovative union practices in Central-Eastern Europe, Europe: European Trade Union Movement, pp. 161–177, ISBN 978-2-87452-449-3, retrieved 2021-07-16