Impacting working conditions through trade union training
This paper presents two projects aimed at training trade union representatives in ergonomic work analysis. They were carried out by researchers specialising in ergonomics, occupational medicine and sociology as well as by trade union leaders. The first training project focused on identifying the forms of work intensification and its impact on employees. The second focused on conducting a health and work project, with the goal of creating a new job title within the trade union organisation: trade union occupational health project leader. These two projects collected information on current working conditions and their impact on employees. Intensification results in increased stress and in forms of job rationalisation that make work less meaningful and affect employee subjective involvement. Ultimately, employees suffer as much from what they do as from what they dont do but would like to do. These training sessions also provided an opportunity to analyse trade union practices and the ways in which they can change when an understanding is gained of real work processes on the ground. The process of transforming work representations and trade union practice is difficult and not everyone succeeded in completing his or her project. Those who did so are whose who, inter alia, took a collective approach.
Gaudart Corinne Théry Laurence Daniellou Fran(c)ois Dugué Bernard Petit Johann
LISE / CEE (France) CESTP-ARACT (France) Ergonomics Department, IdC – University of Bordeaux (France)
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-6
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）