What is a PVT?
A PVT (personeelsvertegenwoording) is a worker’s council in a company between 10-50 employees. This council is not required until most employees vote for it. A PVT has rights, like voting rights on changes like working hours or sick leave, advice rights where the employer must ask advice on big issues and has to take the advice into consideration.
How do you form a PVT?
Get enough workers to agree to a PVT. Talk to your co-workers using IWW techniques like mapping your workplace. Make them positive about PVTs (and maybe get them to join the IWW while you’re at it!).
Ask your boss to hold a vote, or set up a PVT immediately. If your boss does not agree to a vote, contact us.
Organize a preparatory committee to set up a vote for board members for the PVT, all of whom are your fellow workers.
Gather some colleagues who want to help organize the election. Inform your co-workers about the upcoming election of the PVT board. Talk to colleagues, make flyers, and organize information meetings.
Finally, hold the election. You and your fellow workers now have a PVT board chosen by and run by you and your colleagues!
Now that you have a PVT, use this to show your coworkers what cooperative organizing can get you. Make use of the privileges of a PVT, like gaining insight into the company to further the worker’s struggle at your workplace.