The medical and health services trade unions are planning to start a strike on May 15 to demand additional funding for the sector. The unions are planning to take the action because they estimate that the health care system has a shortfall of more than 70 million euro compared with the actual need for the treatment of patients and funding is missing for the treatment of more than 200,000 patients.
English: http://www.baltictimes.com/estonian_health_care_workers_planning ...
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After 21 days of strike on public transport, the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) and Siptu said their members were going back to work in time for the Easter holidays. Moreover, they will be asked to vote on recommendations on redundancies, pay structures and reform of their duties and management which were issued by the Labour Court. The long-running dispute between Bus Eireann workers and management was sent to the Labour Court after the two sides failed to reach a full agreement on all the issues after five days of intensive negotiations at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
English: http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/bus-eireann-workers ...
Construction unions GMB and Unite planned a series of demonstrations over the undercutting and exploitation of construction workers. The protests focus on several Danish firms who are involved in the funding and building of major energy and waste projects. Workers are being paid up to 61% below agreed industry rates, with some workers being paid just the minimum wage and financing their own travel and accommodation. Representatives from the unions will be handing in a petition containing over 5,000 signatures to the Danish embassy, calling on the Danish government to launch an investigation.
English: http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/demonstration-against-undercutting
https://goingtowork.org.uk/undercutting-must-end/
Primary school teachers are demanding higher salaries and smaller class sizes. If the new government does not address both these issues in their coalition agreement, the teachers will strike for a week. This was announced by action group PO in Actie and education trade union AOb after both organisations polled their membership. A manifesto with this demand, addressed to the government, will be signed by both unions and employers. The trade union has been calling for higher salaries in primary education for years.
English: http://nltimes.nl/2017/04/13/teachers-strike-shut-dutch-primary-schools-days
In an answer to an official question put by the opposition Left party, the government has admitted that the country's minimum hourly wage is not enough to cover the costs of a single parent working full-time. The detailed answer shows that a single person working a 38-hour week on the minimum wage of 8.84 euro will end up earning 1,444 euro a month. After tax, social insurance contributions, and living costs have been deducted, they would be left with 339 euro for rent and heating. That, according to official statistics, would be just about enough to cover the average costs of someone living alone (338 euro), but considerably less than the costs of a single person with a child under six (457 euro).
English: http://www.dw.com/en/minimum-wage-not-enough-for-single-parents ...
The government approved amendments to legislation restoring part of overtime payments to medical professionals in the national health service that were reduced in 2012 by the previous administration, but without revealing full details of a move that may or may not head off a doctors' strike. A phased increase was announced over the current year of the percentage increases foreseen in the legislation in force. However, it is neither clarified how the percentages are to be phased in nor from when exactly the overtime payments are to be restored. Doctors' unions have scheduled a strike for 10-11 May to protest the government's failure fully to restore overtime payments, which are currently running at 50% their pre-2012 level.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/government-to-boost-doctor-overtime-pay ...
The General Workers’ Union has organised industrial action against Malta International Airport. The GWU has ordered workers to refrain from communicating by email as the first step in an industrial action against the airport management, due to the failure to reach a collective agreement for its workers. According to GWU, which is in negotiations with MIA together with Union Haddiema Maghqudin (UHM), the biggest hurdle to reaching a new collective agreement for MIA workers is the company’s refusal to improve working conditions despite increased commercial activity resulting from growth in the tourism sector.
English: http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/76242/general_workers_union ...
The metal workers trade union IF Metall went into the collective agreement negotiations with three prioritised demands (a real wage increase, possibilities for part-time retirement and extra attention for low wage earners). An agreement was reached with the employers that includes results in all three areas. In the next three years, wages will increase with an annual 2% (as of 1 April every year). The lowest wages of fulltime workers will improve and possibilities to withdraw from work at the end of a career are extended. The agreement is valid until 31 March 2020. The bargaining council of the union has approved the outcome.
English: https://www.ifmetall.se/globalassets/avdelningar/forbundskontoret/resurser ...
https://www.ifmetall.se/globalassets/avdelningar/forbundskontoret/resurser ...
Increasing numbers of refugees have found success in finding work, according to a newly-released analysis. The Confederation of Danish Employers (Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening, DA) says the positive news can in part be put down to the tripartite agreement the government entered into with businesses and trade union representatives in 2016. Under the agreement, a so-called ‘basic integration education programme’ (integrationsgrunduddannelse, IGU), was introduced, aiming to put refugees in short-term jobs at an apprentice salary level of between 50 to 120 kroner (6.7 to 16.1 euro) per hour.
English: https://www.thelocal.dk/jobs/article/more-immigrants-finding-jobs ...
A report of the Institute of Economic Research analyses the duration, scheduling and distribution of the weekly working time of employees. The main findings are: working time is unequally distributed between women and men. About a quarter of the employees are not satisfied with their current working time. Existing instruments to adapt working time in the fields of family, education and labour market are outlined as well as reform options which support a gender time gap reduction and a life-course perspective.
German: https://www.arbeiterkammer.at/interessenvertretung/arbeitszeit ...
The report (English): http://www.wifo.ac.at …