Trade union FNV is threatening railway company NS with collective actions including strikes if the company goes through with its plan to remove the second conductor from some double-decker trains. The union gave NS an ultimatum to meet their demands, or actions will start. Unions officials defend the need of two conductors on all double-deckers to reduce freeloaders. Otherwise the social security will continue to deteriorate. The parliament wants everyone in public transport to work on measures against freeloaders. Thus, the unions consider that there should be no reduction of train personnel, especially taking into account the physical strain in double-deckers train.
English: http://www.nltimes.nl/2016/09/16/train-workers-threaten-strike .
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Several trade unions have called for a massive rally in Piacenza on Saturday, 17 September, following the death of Abd Elsalam Ahmed Eldanf, a GLS delivery worker who was hit by a lorry while striking on September 14. According to the workers, the truck driver was ordered to break the picket line by the Chief of Staff at the plant. A strike had been called against the company contracted to run the plant, the SEAM. The company had fired 37 temporary workers, as well as a group of workers organised with the USB base union, who were actively leading struggles on the workplace. SEAM had previously agreed to re-hire 13 of the workers, but later on it rejected the agreement. Therefore, the workers immediately went on strike and blocked the exit of trucks from the plant.
English: http://newsvideo.su/video .
https://libcom.org/blog/logistics-worker-killed-while-strike-piacenza-italy .
A study by global consulting firm Mercer has found that one in every two companies will be hiring new staff this year. The `Total Compensation Portugal 2016' survey covered over 160,000 jobs in 305 Portuguese companies. A further 44 percent of the companies involved in the survey said they would be keeping the same number of workers on their books. Only a small number (0.7 percent) of respondents said they would be reducing employee numbers.
English: http://theportugalnews.com/news/one-in-two-portuguese-companies .
An article from the Office for National Statistics examines total bonus payments received across the whole economy in the financial year ending 2016 (April 2015 to March 2016) with analyses presented by month paid, by sector and industry. In this period, the combined value of all bonuses paid was a record £44.3 billion, surpassing the previous highest amount seen in the financial year ending 2008 and 4.4% higher than in the financial year ending 2015. Bonuses as a percentage of total pay were 6.0% overall in the financial year ending 2016, a small increase on the previous year, but still well below the financial year ending 2008 peak of 7.1%. Financial and insurance activities industries paid the highest average bonus per employee, at £13,400, while health and social work sectors paid the lowest average bonus per employee at close to zero.
English: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork .
Young people expressed in a survey to expect their monthly salary to be between 800 and 1500 euro. According to the results, 44% of young people are working, 27% are studying, and just one fifth of them are doing both at the same time. Forty-two per cent of the young people working today earn more than 800 euro per month after taxes; among those who are working while studying, this number is 19%. Almost every second 18-25-year-old expects their monthly net income to be 800-1500 euros in five years from now.
English: http://www.seb.ee/eng/news/2016-09-14/seb-survey-young-people .
The ECJ has dealt with a case of a nurse, who has worked at the University Hospital of Madrid from 5 February 2009 to 31 July 2013. The reason given for her appointment was to `provide certain services of a temporary, auxiliary or extraordinary nature'. The appointment was renewed seven times under identically types of fixed-term contracts. She brought an appeal against the decision to terminate her employment relationship. She argued that her successive appointments were not intended to meet an auxiliary or extraordinary need of the health services, but in fact corresponded to a permanent activity. In this landmark ruling (Case C-16/15) the Court finds that EU law -in particular Council Directive 1999/70/EC of 28 June 1999 concerning the framework agreement on fixed-term work concluded by ETUC, UNICE and CEEP - precludes national legislation which allows the renewal of fixed-term contracts to cover temporary staff needs, when those needs are, in fact, permanent.
English: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms .
Trade unions at train maker Alstom called on a strike on 27 September 2016 to protest plans to stop locomotive production at the company's historic Belfort plant in eastern France. President Hollande has urged Alstom, in which the state holds a 20 percent stake, not to go ahead with the plans, which would see production shifted to another plant in France while workers would be relocated to other sites. Alstom's four main unions said they would strike at sites across the country and would protest outside the company's corporate headquarters in Paris's northern suburbs.
English: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-alstom .
Two-thirds of the companies handle the increasing labour shortages by raising wages, an online survey conducted by legjobbmunkadók.hu reveals. The site surveyed more than 150 companies employing more than 100 000 people about the effects of the current labour shortages. The survey found that the companies suffer from a shortage of skilled workers mostly. Moreover, almost half of the respondents (47 %) have stated it is difficult to find intellectual workers as well, while 48 % of them have identified the shortage of semi-skilled workers.
English: http://dailynewshungary.com/hungarian-companies-raise-wages-cure-labour .
An OECD observer blog discusses the fact that, in recent decades, the share of national income taken by the top 1% of earners has risen. The rise has been particularly striking in the United States: in 1980, the top 1% of income recipients in the US earned 8% of all pre-tax income; by 2012, their share had risen to over 19%. Other OECD countries also saw big rises, including the UK. The rising income share of the 1% has become a hot issue, but some observers believe this focus actually misses much of the story of rising income inequality. As well as looking at the top 1% of earners, they argue, we should also look at an even smaller segment-the top 0.1% of earners (1 in 1,000), and even the top 0.01% of earners (1 in 10,000).
English: http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory .
The workers of the Episkopi desalination plant went on an indefinite strike after their request for negotiating a collective agreement was ignored by the employer. Limassol Water Co Ltd. SEK trade union's representative at the company told that the employees, who work 12-hour shifts on a 24-hour basis seven days per week, had been warning the company of strike action since August. The unions submitted a request for a collective agreement ten months ago. After several meetings with the management and the labour ministry without agreement between the parties, the labour ministry submitted a mediation proposal. According to the union PEO, the offer was rejected by the unions as `unacceptable'. The workers decided to take strike action until there is a new proposal from the company for negotiating working conditions. The company management said that the strike is `arbitrary and violates the code of industrial relations'.
English: http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/12/desalination-plant-workers-strike .