Workers at EDF were on strike again on 25 January and 30 January 2017. The call to strike came against the proposal to freeze salaries for workers in the electricity and gas industries in 2017. The major concerns of the employees joining this action are remuneration, job cuts, and site closures. Force Ouvriere, along with four other trade unions, including the General Confederation of Labour's (CGT's) energy branch, called for the opening of wage negotiations for 2017 and said 31 January should be ‘a day of unitary mobilization’.
English: http://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/london/workers-at-frances-edf ...
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The average gross salaries and wages paid in December 2016 amounted to dinars 73 641 (594 euro). The average net salaries and wages (tax and contributions excluded) paid in December 2016 totalled 53 456 dinars (431 euro). Compared to the average gross salaries and wages paid in November 2016, this was an increase of 16.8% in nominal terms and 16.9% increase in real terms, while the average net salaries and wages increased by 16.8% in nominal terms and by 16.9% in real terms. Compared with the same month in 2015, average gross salaries and wages increased by 4.1% in nominal terms and by 2.5% in real terms, while average net salaries and wages increased by 3.8% in nominal terms and by 2.2% in real terms.
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Strike action by over 2,000 workers has paid off as the trade union Birleşik Metal İş, won a major victory in securing a better collective agreement for metalworkers with major electrical equipment employers association EMIS (Electromechanical Employers' Association). Even though the government issued a decree postponing and effectively banning the strike, the metalworkers went ahead with industrial action. The duration of the new agreement will be two years and includes raises in wages and social benefits and a private health insurance for all workers at ABB.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/victory-for-metalworkers-in-turkey
The Labour Court will no longer intervene in the current dispute over pay and cost cuts at Bus Éireann. Unions said the Labour Court had told the parties that there was no viability in reinvigorating the pre-Christmas process on the pay claim. Bus Éireann management was meeting with representatives of the National Bus and Rail Union (NBRU) and SIPTU. Unions reject proposals from the company which would involve cuts to wages in the order of 30% and consider that, in order for the court to be of assistance, the dispute would have to be through normal procedures. The company has presented unions with cost-cutting proposals including reductions in overtime, premium payments, possible compulsory redundancies and outsourcing. The company says the measures must be implemented urgently to avert an insolvency.
English: http://www.rte.ie/news ...
The increase in salaries in 2016 was the highest in the past six years. The basic gross salary went up by 4.8 percent compared to 2015, while the average basic salary last year amounted to 920 euro gross a month. This stems from an analysis of a salary survey website where more than 70,000 people compared their salaries in 2016. Qualified workers saw their wages increase the most, by 6 percent compared with 2015. Their average basic wage amounted to 652 euro gross a month.
English: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20441462/salaries-grew-the-most-in-6-years ...
Nursing representatives held a meeting with senior management of the Health Service, at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), to discuss the recruitment and pay of nurses and midwives. These talks between nurses’ representatives and government officials on the staffing crisis in hospitals nationwide have adjourned without agreement. The trade unions SIPTU and INMO agreed to engage in further meetings and dialogue. According to INMO, it became clear that health service management ‘had no funded workplace plan to address the current unsafe staffing levels'. The organisation insisted that this is compromising patient care and impacting on the health, safety and morale of frontline workers. In the event that there is no ‘radical change', INMO is likely to begin industrial action, following a recent ballot in which 90% of the membership voted in favour of such action.
English: http://www.irishhealth.com/article ...
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After a session of the Economic and Social Council (ESS) a 1.8% rise in the minimum wage to 805 euro gross or 614 euro net was announced by the labour ministry. Seven associations of trade unions that are a part of the Economic and Social Council, the main industrial relations forum, had called for raising the minimum wage. Given the economic recovery, unions demanded that the minimum wage should go up by 5% to 630 euro net in 2017. Earlier on opposition parties in parliament asked an improvement during 2017 in two steps, leading to a minimum wage of 700 euro in September 2017. Trade unions argue that the planned increase is not enough to keep minimum wage recipients above the poverty line.
English: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/labour-minister-announces-1-8-minimum-wage-rise
The idea of a pan-European minimum wage is since decades on the agenda of European politicians. A report that urges the European Commission to introduce an equitable wage gained significant support by the MEPs. The report is strictly advisory, but its approval falls two months prior to the Commission's scheduled proposal of new social welfare rules, including measures on working conditions and wages. While 22 countries already have a minimum wage in place, Austria and five other countries did not follow suit. The reason, however, lies in the robust system of collective agreement in some of these countries. The bargaining is conducted by trade unions at a sectoral level with a strong emphasis on decent wages (also at the lowest level), which makes the unions in these states understandably sceptical of a minimum wage.
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A group of workers from the road maintenance company Complete Highway Care (CHC) have won a High Court appeal over their employer’s decision to cut their wages in 2009 by 10 per cent due to difficult economic trading conditions. The employees of CHC, which provides temporary traffic management and road maintenance services, had appealed a decision of the EAT which found the wage cut was lawful.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/construction/road-workers-win-high-court ...
According to data from the labour ministry new jobs are offering increasingly lower salaries. Despite the creation of more than 82,679 new jobs, one in two workers are making an average monthly salary of below 600 euro for full-time employment. One in four see less than 500 euro gross monthly. The statistics service said in a monthly report that the number of unemployed people totalled 1,102,335 in October 2016, with the number of unemployed people in the 55-64 age group rising steadily as companies dismissed older workers to hire young ones at the minimum wage.
English: http://www.statistics.gr/en ...
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/01/20/report-greeks-severely-underemployed ...