Industrial action has been called on the Malaga Metro service on 2 and 9 February 2017, with protests and workers possibly going on strike for better pay and working conditions. Workers initially went on strike at the beginning of the year. The CCOO union is to vote on when they will start industrial action.
English: http://www.englishradionews.com/news/spain/costa-del-sol/talks-continue ...
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The negotiations on wage increases in public bus transport have ended in deadlock as the representatives of trade unions are unable to make a deal with carriers. As a result, employees in bus transport have announced a strike alert. If they fail to make agreement after meeting with the mediator, it is possible they will start striking. The trade unions want the tariff wages to increase by 10 percent, while the average wages should rise by 12 percent. The employers, however, propose only a 1-percent increase for the former and 2-percent increase for the latter. This would mean that the lowest wages would rise by only €4.50 a month.
English: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20435585/bus-drivers-threaten-with-strike ...
The country’s minimum guaranteed income (known as the RMG - introduced in 1986) will soon be replaced by an 'Income of Social Inclusion' or REVIS. In general, the government wants to limit subsidy dependency, in other words, fewer people living on benefits. REVIS will be calculated in a different way, being divided into two parts. In practice, there will be two benefits: the ‘inclusion’ allowance and the ‘activation’ subsidy: the inclusion allowance will initially be composed of a basic amount of 701.19 euro per person, plus the same amount per household to help pay the expenses and 217.71 euro per dependent child. For single parents, the amount rises to 282.07 euro for each dependent child.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/luxembourg/rmg-to-revis-luxembourg-s-minimum-income ...
French: http://www.lessentiel.lu/fr/luxembourg/story/Le-RMG-remplace ...
Trade union ver.di is planning to set up a pension fund for the country’s service industries that could model itself on the occupational pension scheme for the metalworking and engineering industries. Ver.di will be the first union using of the government’s proposal for a new type of pension plan without guarantees and possible opting out. These plans are foreseen in the government’s proposal for pension reform, the so-called ‘Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetz’.
English: https://www.ipe.com/countries/germany/german-trade-union ...
Information about the pension legislation (in German): http://www.portal-sozialpolitik.de/recht ...
DGB position paper (in German): http://www.dgb.de/themen ...
Economists expect the average monthly wage to increase to BGN 1,039 (530 euro) in 2017 and reach BGN 1,125 (575 euro) in 2018. Analysts forecast that the economy will grow by 3.6%. The main engine of growth will be internal demand and individual consumption. According to data of the National Statistical Institute, at the end of 2016, the average monthly wage in the country was BGN 954 (488 euro). The National Statistical Institute (NSI) also presented the publication ‘Structure of Earnings 2014’. It contains data from the representative Structure of Earnings Survey for 2014.
English: http://www.novinite.com/articles ...
Structure of earnings 2014: http://www.nsi.bg/sites …
Key indicators 2016: http://www.nsi.bg/sites ...
The Limassol port pilots went on strike after they were told that they had to train six Dutch colleagues of theirs, who are to assume duties after the private investors take over operations at the end of January 2017. The work stoppage ended as a sign of goodwill ahead of the pilots’ scheduled meeting with the head of the House transport committee over this conflict. The Limassol port pilots had staged another strike on July 2016 to protest the intention of Dubai Ports to employ non-Cypriot pilots. The pilots expect that Dubai Ports will hire them after it takes over from the Cyprus Ports Authority.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/01/11/port-pilots-strike-employment-foreign-nationals/
According to Big Mac Index 2017 Switzerland still has the most overvalued currency in the world. Big Mac index was invented by The Economist in 1986 as a light-hearted guide to whether currencies are at their ‘correct’ level. It is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), the notion that in the long run exchange rates should move towards the rate that would equalise the prices of an identical basket of goods and services (in this case, a burger) in any two countries. However, the situation is different in an adjusted version of the index which takes into account labour costs and GDP. When adjusting for the country’s average income, the franc is only overvalued by four percent, it found.
English: http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index …
In the context of the relaunch of social dialogue announced in 2015, the European Commission set the target to foster the capacity-building among social partners in the EU states. In 2015, a guideline report was prepared by the EU cross-industry social partners to provide some orientation on how social partners can get involved at EU level. An article by Eurofound takes a closer look at the national-level initiatives aimed at strengthening social dialogue among social partners in five EU countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia and Lithuania. In all five countries, the social dialogue structures are rather weak and trade union membership is declining. A lack of both physical and human resources has been identified as contributing to the difficulty of engaging in a meaningful social dialogue, hence the capacity-building approach. This approach has different strategies for different areas of activity, such as informing, organising and protecting their current and potential members.
English: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/articles/national-capacity ...
NGO Oxfam has produced a briefing paper on inequality and wage disparities. Wages in low-skill sectors in particular have been falling behind productivity in emerging economies and stagnating in many rich countries, while wages at the top continue to grow. One section of the paper is dedicated to the decline of workers’ collective bargaining power. It says that the changing structure of the jobs market and associated decline of collective bargaining makes things worse. Various factors have led to the decline in the proportion of workers who are members of unions. The IMF has found a relationship in advanced economies between this decline and the increasing share of incomes of the top 10%. In developed countries, the increase in self-employed workers in the ‘gig’ economy, where they are contracted for defined outputs rather than being employees, puts workers in more precarious financial positions.
English: https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/economy-99
The report: https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files ...
OSM Aviation and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recognising the right of employees to organise and laying the basis for genuine representation and collective bargaining rights to raise standards and working conditions, and to ensure professional services in the international aviation sector. The agreement will contribute to the best possible collaboration between unions and the company including not only adherence to International Labour Organization (ILO) core conventions on freedom of association, organising and collective bargaining, but also the guarantee of regular meetings between unions and management and the inclusion of grievance and arbitration procedures.
English: http://www.icenews.is/2017/01/16/ceo-espen-hoiby-we-offer-pilots-and-cabin-crew ...