The Minister of Health announced that the government has granted state nurses their long-standing demand for higher entry-level wages to match their university level qualifications. The agreement was achieved during a meeting with delegations of the nurses’ union Pasyno and the nurses’ branch of the civil servants’ trade union Pasydy. The demand of the state nurses to be paid higher wages to match their university level qualifications, was put forward in 2011. The administration’s reluctance in granting this request citing financial issues, led in the past to a number of strikes by nurses in state hospitals.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/03/03/govt-agrees-higher-entry-level ...
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Trade union FNV active member Bob van Luijk won an unfair dismissal case against the company Shell/NAM. Van Luijk was dismissed from Shell subsidiary NAM after 31 years of service after being accused of leaking sensitive information about the company’s pension scheme to the trade union Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging (FNV). Van Luijk is an employees’ representative on the board of the pension fund, and had shared widely available information with other executive members and the FNV. The consequence of the dismissal would have been no redundancy pay or unemployment benefit.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/dutch-trade-unionist-wins-case ...
The trade unions will again be able to take industrial action in order to get foreign companies to sign collective agreements for their posted workers. That is what the government proposes, arguing the limitations introduced through the so-called lex Laval go too far. After the EU Court of Justice’s judgement in the much talked-about Laval case, a provision was introduced in the Posting of Workers Act which meant it was no longer allowed to take industrial action in order to secure a collective agreement with a foreign company, if that company can show that its employees already receive the minimum provisions covered by the agreement. The problem with this is that unions have no way of taking action against an employer who has not entered into a collective agreement, if it should turn out that this employer provides provisions of a lesser quality. The unions have therefore demanded to be given the right to take industrial action.
English: http://www.nordiclabourjournal.org/nyheter/news ...
The trade unions and the biggest employers' organisation have agreed a wage deal for 2017, avoiding a strike. The agreement will result in a 2.4 percent increase in wages. The agreement between the unions LO and YS and the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO), covers a broad section of manufacturing workers and is expected to set guidelines for other wage talks in the country. The deal includes workers in the oil industry, but employees working on many offshore drilling rigs will hold their own wage talks later.
English: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-4314048/Norwegian-unions ...
The education trade union embarked on the second stage of its ‘End of Cheap Teachers campaign’, which was launched in 2016. The unionists insist on a considerable increase of the salaries of teachers as well as non-teaching employees in the education. Their demand was partly met in 2016 when they received an 8% increase.
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2017/03/01/czech-education-trade-union-insisting ...
A study by the research agency Policy Agenda shows that there had been a 38.7% gross wage increase in the education sector since 2010, compared to only a 22.7% increase in the preceding six years. However, net salaries showed little improvement: an increase of 33.5% was logged between 2010-2016, compared to 38% in the preceding six years. Although wages did not grow at a higher rate on average than in 2004-2010, real net increases did occur in some professions within the education sector. The table shows that while wages increased at a nominal rate among most teachers, the highest jump occurred for kindergarten teachers, who enjoyed a wage increase of 42.1 percent compared to 33.2 percent in the previous period.
English: http://budapestbeacon.com/news-in-brief/study-shows-government-touted ...
A long dispute at the docks has ended after the country’s Supreme Court ruled that a collective agreement covering workers in 13 of the largest ports restricted freedom of establishment, which could not be justified under European Economic Area (EEA) law. While the employers welcomed the ruling by the Supreme Court, trade union confederation LO and its affiliate NTF will need to take it into account when discussing the country’s commitments under the EEA agreement. Although LO mainly supports the EEA agreement, some of its affiliates question certain of its implications. The EEA agreement is due to appear on the agenda on the next LO congress in May 2017.
English: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/articles/norway-dock ...
A meeting between the trade union representing state guards at the archaeological sites and the culture minister, following the guards’ strike on 20 February 2017, has failed to resolve a pay and contract dispute between the parties. In a statement, the union said that the minister had failed to meet workers’ demands for additional staff and overtime pay. Unionists would meet to decide on further action, the statement said.
English: http://www.ekathimerini.com/216549/article/ekathimerini/news/archaeological ...
Trade union CGT is mobilising its members in several parts of company segments of Air France for a strike. The union’s main argument is the ‘scandalous’ pay rise for the leadership of the company (at first it looked like a 67% increase). The company has rectified earlier statements about the increase during a works council meeting and stated that the total amount is 4 million euro shared by 14 managers. The CGT reminds the management of the efforts made by the workforce to keep the company healthy (with wages freezes, shorter holidays, new employment patterns).
French: http://www.lemonde.fr/entreprises/article/2017/02/28/plusieurs-syndicats ...
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Union communiqué (in French): http://www.cgtairfrance.com …
Trade unions NBRU (National Bus and Rail Union) and SIPTU have announced that they will commence an all-out strike at Bus Éireann, after management announced cost-cutting measures will be imposed. The company has done this without going back to the Workplace Relations Commission. Bus Éireann management has told staff that the company has no option but to implement changes to work practices from 6 March that will result in ‘immediate cost savings’. They have also warned that there will be redundancies and impact on pay - but says the moves are necessary to save the company.
English: http://www.rte.ie/news ...
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/thousands-to-be-hit ...