The strike at Bus Éireann, continues at the end of March 2017 and it could escalate significantly the week after, involving Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann. Workers at both those companies are to be balloted on taking industrial action in sympathy with and in support of Bus Éireann workers. SIPTU representatives from the three companies are supporting the ongoing strike - which is affecting around 110,000 Bus Éireann customers. Meanwhile, Bus Éireann managers are meeting to consider plans that could involve up to 300 job losses under a voluntary redundancy scheme. Bus Éireann services, with the exception of school transportation, came to a standstill in the dispute, which follows management plans to introduce cost-saving measures without agreement.
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The trade union Unia has launched the campaign: ‘Investing in People, instead of a race for profit! ‘. This action aims for promoting better working conditions in the care sector. The campaign petition in this regard has resulted in more than 10,000 signatures already.
French: http://www.unia.ch/fr/actualites ...
German: http://www.unia.ch/de/aktuell ...
The Chamber of Labour made an assessment of the work in 2016 and discussed the outlook for 2017. The Chamber that looks after the interest of all workers is highly praised by the workforce (75% of the workers believes that the Chamber is a reliable organisation). The Chamber earned in court cases around 234-million-euro compensation for workers and another 38 million euro outside the court. The Chamber also has campaigned against social and wage dumping. Priorities for the future are the reduction of unemployment, a reform of the tax system and improvement of social housing.
German: https://www.arbeiterkammer.at/service/presse/Leistungsbilanz_2016.html
Pamphlet (in German): https://media.arbeiterkammer.at/wien/PDF ...
Members across British Telecom are being urged to accept the company’s ‘full and final’ pay offer of 2.6% - a settlement which is backdated to January 2017, fully consolidated and above the relevant Retail Price Index (RPI) inflation rate of 2.5%. The deal, which has been unanimously endorsed by trade union CWU’s BT Executive Committee, will be placed before NewGRID (including Workforce 2020) grade members in a consultative ballot that will open on 30 March 2017, running until 11 April.
English: http://www.cwu.org/media/news/2017/march/24/bt-pay-deal-out-to-ballot/
The pay offer: http://www.cwu.org/media/9626/bt-pay-bulletin-no-6-2017.pdf
The trade unions CC.OO and UGT and the employers’ organisation in the metal sector have signed a framework agreement. The agreement will apply to around one million workers in some 170,000 companies. It sets the frame for negotiations at regional and local level. The aim is to work towards more homogeneity in terms of working conditions and salaries whilst still taking into account local specificities. Several themes have been listed fur future negotiations, such as work organisation, equal opportunities and career policy.
Spanish: http://www.ugt-fica.org/41-ultimas-noticias/1013-acordado-el-texto-definitivo ...
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The joint trade unions and the employers in the umbrella work branch, represented by the PEPS, came to an agreement. Umbrella work (or ‘portage salarial’) was defined in 2015 in a law. The umbrella company employs a worker, pays him a salary and invoices his clients. The company takes responsibility for the administration of the work and services the employee has negotiated. The deal settles how labour rules have to be applied to this atypical form of employment, in order to provide legal security for companies, and contains provisions to safeguard workers employed under such arrangements. This historic agreement, carried out in four months with all relevant social partners, includes several important provisions, such as the setting up of a mutual fund for the protection of workers and the creation of a personal reserve that can be used by the worker, in the event of a period of inactivity (10% of the remuneration).
English: http://www.peps-syndicat.fr/presse-et-institutions/presse/le-peps-et-les-syndicats ...
The government announced that it had approved the public offer for sale of 75,000 shares in the national airline, TAP, to its employees, at the price of €10.38 a share, saying that it expects the operation to go off well. TAP is to compile a list of the workers who fulfil the requirements to buy shares as part of the operation. The price of the shares on offer - which represents 5% of TAP's share capital - is at a discount of about 5% on the price at which the Atlantic Gateway consortium bought its shares in late 2014, at €10.93 each. Under the new model for TAP's privatisation agreed with the current government, which took office in November 2014, the consortium will have 45% of TAP.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/government-approves ...
Rail workers have staged a walk-out after trade unions and management failed to agree about a wage increase. More than 150 trains were affected by the strike. Employees of the Romanian CFR state rail network are demanding a 25 percent wage increase and better working conditions. Railway management says they can afford only a 22.5 percent raise.
English: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4338888/Romanian-rail-workers ...
The Equality Trust published an analysis on top earnings. It reveals that CEOs in the top 100 companies pocket an average of £5.3m each year, or 386 times that of a worker earning the National Living Wage. Over two thirds (67%) of FTSE 100 CEOs are paid more than 100 times the average UK salary. Ninety per cent of FTSE 100 CEOs are paid at least 100 times more than the National Living Wage. The analysis comes at a moment where research has shown that a combination of rising inflation and pay restraint means that average real pay is falling in the public sector, and is expected to continue falling over the next three years. Forecasts suggest that average real pay in the public sector will fall back below 2004-05 levels by the end of the parliament (2019-20).
English: https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/uk ...
The analysis: https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/sites/default ...
The Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) stated that, in the longer run, it would be for the best if all terms of work were agreed individually at company level between employer and employee. The statement comes fast on the heels of the employers' EK announcement that it will do no longer enter into agreements with the trade union confederations. It has also pulled out of the 22 existing confederation level agreements.
English: http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news-from-finland/1221-employers ...
http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news-from-finland/1207-employers-confederation ...