The new Chamber of Employees has been elected, but results are not expected to be finalised until April. In addition to the Chamber of Employees, businesses with more than 15 employees had delegate elections.
The Inspectorate of Labour and Mines (ITM) has been collecting all the results and supervising the delegate elections for businesses, which also have yet to be finalised.
More than 3,800 businesses were called upon to elect personnel delegations. Of those, 2,514 businesses have submitted the results online. The results that have already emerged have surprisingly shown that the trade unions are falling behind to the benefit of lists and groups that are not bound together by a trade union.
More than half of the delegates elected in the more than 2,500 businesses last week did not candidate as belonging to a trade union. So far, these independent delegates have received 54% of all votes.
The OGBL follows behind with 25% of the votes, then followed by the LCGB. In a first phase, over 3,800 businesses were contacted and asked to organise elections. Nearly 3,000 responded, but a number did not organise elections as they did not fulfil all the criteria required.
Of the results already announced, larger businesses with more than 1,000 or 500 employees are dominated by trade unions. The supermarket Cactus has its employees broadly represented by the OGBL, whereas the cleaning firm Dussmann elected LCGB candidates. Amongst Goodyear's personnel, the LCGB received 60% of the votes compared to the OGBL's 40%.
Specialised trade unions came ahead in their industries - the syndicate of the aviation sector's employees (SEA) had a majority with 45% amongst Luxair employees. In the finance sector, the banking trade union Aleba has 29% of votes, followed then by the OGBL with 17%, and the LCGB with 13%. Other groups have beaten the three trade unions with 40%, showing Aleba's dwindling influence.
Trade unions have yet to publish analyses of the elections, as they are awaiting the full results. As for the Chamber of Employees, the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and the Social and Solidarity Economy is in charge of counting votes for the 60 delegates to the CSL.
