Two-thirds of Alitalia workers rejected a management restructuring plan to cut jobs and salaries that had been agreed with unions. After these developments, it is likely that the government will call in an administrator to draft an alternative rescue plan. The air company has been bailed out repeatedly by Italian governments and private investors over the years, though Rome says it will not renationalise Alitalia.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-alitalia-restructuring ...
http://www.italy24.ilsole24ore.com/art/business-and-economy/2017-04-24/alitalia ...
The rejected deal: http://www.italy24.ilsole24ore.com/art/markets/2017-04-14/alitalia ...
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The central bank DNB president has repeated his call for stronger wage increases to boost spending. Speaking ahead of an IMF meeting in Washington, he said unemployment was falling rapidly but wages are failing to keep pace with other countries. He urged trade unions to place more emphasis on wages in their demands during negotiations with employers. The DNB president said higher wages would serve to increase domestic spending and curb inflation.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/04/dutch-central-banker-repeats ...
Retailer Jumbo has pulled out of talks with the unions on a pay deal for distribution centre workers and decided to make a deal with the company works council instead. Workers went on strike at several distribution centres after negotiations for a collective agreement failed. Trade union FNV has called for a 2.5% pay increase and more permanent jobs. Some 3,000 people work in Jumbo distribution centres and 2,000 of them are employed on temporary contracts, the FNV says. The Jumbo management that is prepared to pay a 1.5% increase called the strike illegal. The unions say the company is acting like a dictatorship and putting workers’ rights back decades by side-lining them.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/04/jumbo-sidelines-unions ...
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/04/empty-shelves-loom ...
A PEW report reveals that the fortunes of the middle classes in Western Europe’s largest economies are moving in opposite directions. From 1991 to 2010, the shares of adults living in middle-income households increased in France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, but shrank in Germany, Italy and Spain. Among the 11 Western European countries examined in the report, Ireland experienced the most rapid growth in income from 1991 to 2010 and the biggest expansion of the middle class. Several other countries in Western Europe also experienced large gains in household income. However, rising incomes did not translate into expanding middle classes in these countries.
English: http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/04/24/middle-class-fortunes-in-western-europe/
The report: http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content ...
In a comment to the economic outlook, the chair of the national bank stated that growing inequality in income and economic opportunities are issues that are relevant to all. While the economy’s recovery and growth look positive, the gap between the richest households and those with the lowest income continues to be unjustifiably large; hence, people’s feelings about economic growth vary, and not everyone’s quality of life has been improving. It is therefore necessary, in formulating and implementing modern taxation and social policies, for the focus to be targeted on the reduction of social exclusion.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/direct_speech ...
Some 1,500 metal and industrial workers in the Tampere area were striking on 20 April 2017 to protest government measures that they say are eroding workers’ standing of living. The industrial action affected 16 companies in the Tampere region. The trade union organising the industrial action claimed that the government seems to have adopted the ideological goal of undermining the status of workers and the trade union movement.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/up_to_1500_metal_and_industrial_workers ...
According to preliminary figures from statistics agency ISTAT, some 11.9% of households experienced serious economic difficulties in 2016. Between 2015 and 2016 the situation worsened for people aged 65 and older, with 11% facing serious economic difficulties in 2016 compared with 8.4% in 2015. Times were also tougher for households with a ‘reference person’ in search of employment, with those facing serious economic difficulties climbing to 35.8% from 32.1%. On the other hand, the situation improved slightly for those below the age of 18. The office also produced a prognosis for the demographic development. It is foreseen that the population will decline substantially.
English: http://www.italy24.ilsole24ore.com/art/business-and-economy/2017-04-19/istat ...
https://www.istat.it/en/files/2017/04/Demographic-projections ...
The ING bank has decided to keep 1,500 older employees at home, out of work. The bank decided to make 3,000 employees redundant by 2021. In order to avoid dismissals as much as possible, the bank offered some 1,500 older people the option to stay at home in future, keeping the lion's share of their wage. This is in fact a kind of early retirement, something which the federal government is trying to abolish to keep as many people in work as long as possible.
English: http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws.english/News ...
At their 11th traditional ‘Trade Unions Without Borders’ gathering in Mokrice, Slovenia, on 20 April, Croatian and Slovenian trade union confederations UATUC and ZSSS signed a joint statement on wages: It’s time for OUR recovery. It calls for the strengthening of workers’ rights, focusing on higher salaries and collective bargaining. The chair of trade union confederation ZSSS told in an interview ahead of labour day that he expects hard time for workers. Since the crisis, the workload has increased but pay has not gone up.
English: http://payrise.eu/cross-border-call-for-higher-wages/
https://english.sta.si/2381428/leading-unionist-expects-hard-times-for-workers
A large number of trade union members were elected onto the municipal councils in the local elections. The municipal elections took place in the 295 municipalities on April 9. As a clear majority of Finns in working life are organised in trade unions, at least a couple of thousand of the new councillors are members of the unions. Those elected from among the unions belonging to SAK and STTK trade union confederations were mostly Social Democrats. The Left league is also well represented.
English: http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news ...