The leader of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions said to expect a restart of the dialogue at the National Council of Trilateral Cooperation before the formulation of the new programme of governance. According to CITUB, the system of social assistance must be reformed without a reduction of the financing; the poorest pensioners can receive a bonus through the social assistance system. CITUB presented earlier on at the National Assembly registry a package of legislative amendments that should stop the so-called ‘modern slavery’: non-payment of salaries, insurance, benefits and outstanding social commitments.
English: http://www.novinite.com/articles ...
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Talks to renew the wage pact for 2017 have been open for half a year and the advance was with much slowness and tension. The trade union confederations showed their disgust, in the May Day presentation, at the progress of the negotiations and have warned that the time for talks has been exhausted. The employers’ organisation CEOE had presented proposals for a general agreement (AENC) 2017 that included a salary increase between 1.0% and 2.0%, plus a variable 0.5%, to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. At the general assembly of the CEOE, the government praised the social partners who, since 1979, and until the signing in 2015 of the 3rd Agreement on Employment and Collective Bargaining, signed by the CEOE, CEPYME, CC.OO and UGT, always reached agreements.
Spanish: http://economia.elpais.com/economia/2017/04/26/actualidad ...
The government speech on tripartite talks: http://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/lang/en/presidente/intervenciones ...
The employers’ position (English): http://www.ceoe.es/en/contenido/news ...
The talks with the Royal Mail over plans to close its pension scheme in its current form are ‘complex and difficult’, according to trade union Unite. Unite, which has about 6,000 members working for the Royal Mail, was responding to a pensions update statement from the company. At this stage, it is not possible to say if an agreed solution can be found, but Unite is committed to making every effort to ensure its members have decent pensions provision in the future. If parties don’t achieve a satisfactory outcome, an industrial action ballot or even strike action might be organised.
English: http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/royal-mail-pension-talks-complex-and-difficult ...
Latest data show that there were fewer cases of industrial action such as strikes and walkouts than there were in 2015. So few, in fact, that the figure is the second-lowest since documenting began in 1975. There were only 69 cases of industrial action in 2016, compared to 163 cases in the previous year. Some 7,300 employees from various sectors took part in protest actions last year. 2005 was the busiest year of the 2000s in terms of work protests, as the paper industry was in crisis at the time. Statistics from the 1970s and 80s show that in some years more than one thousand cases of industrial action were recorded.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/far_fewer_industrial_actions_strikes ...
Workers at Budapest’s public transit authority (BKV) had planned an eight-day strike after the breakdown of negotiations for wage increases. The strike starting on April 18, was announced by two BKV unions after their demand for a 30 percent wage increase over three years was denied by the transit authority. A deal that was reached has led to a cancelling of the strike. Workers will receive a 15 percent wage hike this year. The pay increase, negotiated with the trade unions, will be financed by a 50-50 contribution from the city government and the transport authority. The wage increase will apply retroactively from January 2017.
English: http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/bkv-workers-receive-15-percent ...
http://budapestbeacon.com/economics/budapest-transit-workers-plan-8-day-strike ...
The third conciliation meeting between the Air Navigation Administration (ANA) staff representatives and the representatives of the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure did not result in an agreement. The dispute is about the future tasks of the ANA. Representatives of the ANA staff challenged the planned policy and initiated a conciliation procedure. During three conciliation meetings, a number of commitments were discussed with the trade unions.
English: http://chronicle.lu/categoriesluxembourgpolitics/item/21527-no-solution-yet ...
The statistical office published the data over the year 2016. The report Employment, wages and salaries in national economy in 2016 describes working persons, employed persons and their nominal and real wages and salaries, as well as time worked, and licences for work issued to foreigners. The data of the 1st quarter of 2017 reveal that average wages in companies employing more than nine people increased 5.2% year on year to PLN 4,577 (1,072 euro) a month. Analysts had expected a 4.1 percent wage rise in the corporate sector.
English: http://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/labour-market/working-employed-wages-and-salaries ...
http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul ...
Trade union activists from road passenger and freight transport gathered together in the European quarter at the Schuman roundabout to hold the European Commission responsible for the future of the driver profession and of the road transport sector. The trade unions, affiliated to the European Transport Federation, criticise the fact that the planned measures by the EU Commission for the road sector are exclusively market oriented and contain no measures to improve the living and working conditions of drivers. The unrestricted mobility of goods and people is regarded as one of the key instruments for single market integration and more growth. However, the liberalisation process is by no means accompanied by a harmonisation of employment and social standards.
English: http://www.etf-europe.org/etf-news-online.cfm/newsdetail/11572
The ETF Fair Transport Europe vision paper: http://www.etf-europe.org/files/extranet ...
The country’s civil servants’ union ADEDY and the main private sector union GSEE called a 24-hour strike for May 17 to protest additional austerity measures being demanded by the country’s lenders in exchange for the next tranche of bailout loans. ADEDY said the measures, which the government is planning to legislate in order to conclude a crucial review of its bailout progress, were unfair and tough.
English: http://www.ekathimerini.com/217973/article/ekathimerini/news/two-main-unions ...
Some 3,000 drivers and transporters who protested in front of the government’s building in Bucharest on 26 April, managed to convince the government to change the taxi law and have the Police fine Uber drivers and other people who carry unauthorised transport activities. The law changes will be adopted in maximum 30 days, according to the transporters’ association COTAR, which organised the protest. COTAR had that more protests were to be staged in Bucharest, but the protest ended earlier after the transporters reached an agreement with the Government
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/uber-reacts-bucharest-protests-pro-regulation ...