EEAS- staff committee elections
Tuesday 07.03 (11:00) to Tuesday 17.03 (11.00) (inclusive)
- What are the elections for?
- The staff committee of the European External Action Service (EEAS). (link)
- What is a local staff committee (LSC) ?
- At the simplest level, these are like small parliaments which are run by staff, for staff: check out the Luxembourg LSC’s detailed explanation.
- The LSCs speak on your behalf on a range of issues such as negotiations with HR on working conditions. Check out what the Luxembourg LSC does.
- There are 8 LSCs in total across Commission sites and they have elections every 3 years.
- The seats in each LSC are held by OSPs (or groupings) in a similar fashion to the way in which political parties hold seats in national parliaments.
- Luxembourg LSC has 20 seats which are assigned to 20 full members, each of whom has a backup.
- 7 (+ 7 backups) of those elected for Luxembourg represent you in the Central Staff Committee (CSC). Look at how CSC seats are distributed across the total of 8 LSCs.
- Why should I vote for you, Generation 2004?
- We work to ensure that you know your rights and we help you to exercise them, independent of whether you are a temporary, contract or local agent or an official. See examples: data sharing, ‘volunteered’ standby duty and denied access to own medical file.
- We’re the youngest (10 years old this year!) and biggest at the Commission: most of us were recruited post staff regulation reforms and we see how rights and job security deteriorated. We resist further deterioration and push back.
- We do all that we can to promote transparency and balanced reporting.
- We are your voice: we speak on your behalf in all social dialogue.
- Check out our election campaign manifesto, our website, come to an event or get in touch with us.
- See our election candidates on the poster below!
- Check out what work might be like without elected representatives.
- Am I eligible to vote?
- Check the electoral register and point 5, Communication to staff.
- When can I vote?
- Wednesday 23 November (12.00) to Tuesday 6 December (14.00) (inclusive).
- How do I vote?
- Here are instructions
- Voting will be done online via an electronic voting application (eVote) on the Commission internal network. Check you have a valid EU login password.
- Each voter has a maximum of 20 votes.
- Any vote not used is lost (See point 6, Communication to staff).
- Four browsers were in use for Brussels 2022 and we hope that this is also the case in these elections: Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE), Chrome and Edge.
- What does the ballot paper look like?
- There are 5 lists. Generation 2004 is list 5.
- What do all these different abbreviations stand for?
- For explanations of OSPs and their groupings please check out our page on representativeness and on ballot paper transparency.
- Is this mix of agreements normal?
- Yes, see our diagram for the 2019 Luxembourg LSC elections for comparison.
- We believe that this can make it difficult to know who is who on the ballot.
- Pre-electoral agreements are listed on the MyIntracom site dedicated to the 2022 elections
- When will we know the results?
- If all goes well, the results should be available from Wednesday 7 December.
- Check out the 2022 LSC electoral calendar
- What can go wrong?
- There’s a minimum (‘quorum’): 2/3 of the electorate must vote for the election to be valid. We count that as 2425 voters out of a total of 3635. If this threshold is not reached then the voting period is extended. If that does not work then the election will be repeated (as happened in Brussels February 2022) see point 5, Communication to staff.
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Our campaign for election to the Luxembourg LSC is based on facts, not on fiction. Our campaign sets out five S.M.A.R.T. lines of action:
In the coming weeks, our campaign will cover these lines of action in more detail: check out our election campaign manifesto. Meanwhile please feel free to dive into our website and leave us a comment, or get in touch with us.
Our candidates represent a wide diversity in terms of gender, geographic balance, directorates-general and staff categories and that diversity starts from the beginning of the list and not halfway into it.
If you believe that all staff should be given a voice, then:
Vote S.M.A.R.T.
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[*] USF-L ≠ USL: Union syndicale fédérale Luxembourg (USF-L) is not a member of the Alliance, it is part of the 5-OSP grouping named Union syndicale fédérale (USF).
Note that this is not the same as the 2019 list of a very similar name. This 2022 ‘Ensemble pour Luxembourg’ is Union syndicale fédérale Luxembourg (USF-L) alone. There were 6 entities which ran as Ensemble Luxembourg (List 3) in 2019: USF-L plus another 5: FFPE, R&D, SE, TAO-AFI and U4U-RS.
So, how well do the OSP names match the names used on the election ballot papers and the counting of votes? The answer is that they do not correspond particularly well: this is an issue for transparency.
