REGIONAL ENERGY TRADE UNIONS NETWORK OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

A SHORT HISTORY OF RETUN SEE FOUNDATION

In the region of S.E.Europe there were the following 3 Networks in the Energy Sector .

• The Public Services International Trade Unions Network for S.E.Europe

• The Electric Energy and Mining Trade Unions for Balkan and S.E Mediterranean Network(ICEM Member Network )

• The Oil, Gas and Chemical Industry Trade Unions of S.E. Europe Network.

The European Union established the Energy Community , as it became clear that the critical conditions prevailing in the Energy Sector of the region  would require essential interventions .

It was inevitable that the trade unions participating in the above three mentioned networks decided to coordinate their action and create a joint trade-union network.

RETUN SEE was established in order to scrutinize everything that would be planned and  decided by the Energy Community for the benefit of the workers in our region .

Therefore after a number of presidium meetings of the three networks in S.E. Europe (PSI Network, Network of Electric Energy & Mining Trade Unions for Balkan and S.E.Europe, Oil Gas & Chemical Industry Trade Unions Network of S.E.Europe ) our unification in the Regional Energy Trade Unions Network of S.E. Europe was decided and ratified in the Foundational Congress of 30 September 2006 in Greece .

The RETUN SEE founding Trade Union members are:

  • TRADE UNION FEDERATION OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF ALBANIA
  • INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION OF OIL, PATOS, ALBANIA
  • NATIONAL FEDERATION OF ENERGY WORKERS – NFE BULGARIA
  • FEDERATION OF THE INDEPENDENT SYNDICATES OF Miners-knsb BULGARIA
  • CROATIAN ELECTRICITY TRADE UNION CROATIA
  • TRADE UNION OF INA COMPANY AND OIL ECONOMY CROATIA
  • INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION OF THE WORKERS OF Electro-economy OF FYROM
  • OCTA UNION A .D. SKOPJE FYROM
  • PANHELLENIC FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEES IN PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, REFINERIES & CHEMICAL INDUSTRY GREECE
  • TRADE UNION ORGANIZATION OF THE ELECTRIC ECONOMY OF MONTENEGRO
  • FEDERATION OF TRADE UNION OF THE WORKERS OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY & ENERGY RESOURCES OF MOLDOVA
  • INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION OF ENERGY & PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY OF SERBIA
  • TRADE UNION OF WORKERS OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY EPS SERBIA
  • INDEPENDENT ENERGY TRADE UNION OF REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
  • TRADE UNION OF ENERGY INDUSTRY WORKERS SDE SLOVENIA
  • FEDERATIA “ENERGIA MILENIULUI III” ROMANIA
  • NATIONAL FEDERATION OF CHEMICAL AND PETROCHEMICAL TRADE UNIONS “LAZAR EDELEANU” ROMANIA
  • TRADE UNION PETROL – IS TURKEY