Trade union GMB Scotland has welcomed Glasgow City Council's (GCC) decision to climb-down from their changes to working time that could have cost workers up to £500 a year. The Council has confirmed that plans to convert six public holidays into annual leave will now be dropped having made budget savings. Previously, in the context of a campaign of resistance, a GMB Scotland industrial action ballot closed with 72 per cent support for strike action against the plans of the Council.
English: http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/glasgow-councils-climb-down
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The Labour Court is to explore the scope for intervention in the Luas dispute, which has led to tram services being disrupted on 12 days. The Labour Court has asked the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) and Luas operator Transdev to brief it on the dispute. On the basis of these appraisals, the court will determine whether there is scope for it to intervene in the ongoing dispute. Meanwhile, no decision had been taken by the trade union Siptu to hold a ballot for an all-out strike at the Dublin light rail system.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/fractious-luas-row-may-trigger .
Higher pay rises for doctors, nurses and those workers who are difficult to retain in the public service are likely to be considered for inclusion in a new public sector pay deal. While some senior government figures said a public sector pay rise could be as high as 6.5 per cent over the period of a pay agreement, others expressed scepticism that a final package would offer a pay rise of that scale. The government has committed to the establishment of a new public sector pay commission to help quell industrial unrest and prepare the ground for a successor to the Lansdowne Road agreement. The country's largest public service trade union Impact has said it will not accept the government's planned new pay commission as a substitute for pay rounds negotiated through collective bargaining.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/public-sector-pay-rise-could .
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/pay-commission-cannot-be-substitute .
Almost half the workforce with primary school level education and over 60 percent of the unemployed survived in 2014 on less than 610 euro per month, according to the Earnings and Living Conditions report released by the National Institute of Statistics. In 2014, the year of the study, a slight decrease in the level of earnings inequality was signalled. However, there remained `a very significant asymmetry relative to the 10 percent of the population with the highest resources in comparison with the other classes of earnings', the report detailed before indicating `employment and more education mean higher earnings.' Monetary income for the 10 percent of the adult population with the greatest resources, with an annual average income of 26,127 euro, was 10.6 times greater than the average earned by the 10 percent of the population with the lowest level of resources, on an average of 2,469 euro annually.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/half-of-low-educated-workers-on-less .
Tables and press release: https://www.ine.pt/xportal .
Public expenditure on education in Latvia and per-student funding at all levels are lower than many OECD countries. According to the OECD more progress is needed to realise the country's ambitions in education and for society as a whole. It requires a stronger focus on equity, establishing the conditions for a high-quality education profession and continuing the reforms of vocational and tertiary education. Raising teacher salaries to nationally comparable levels will improve recruitment.
English: http://www.oecd.org/latvia/latvia-should-continue-improving-quality-of-education .
Police officers demonstrated to vent frustration over the stresses produced by near daily clashes with gangs of violent youths on the fringes of the anti-reform movement that protests against the planned labour reform. The demonstration - unprecedented in France - was called by police trade unions. Police unions estimate that 350 of their colleagues have been injured, some seriously, in attacks with stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails since street protests against reform of labour laws began two months ago.
English: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/police-car-set-alight .
The government has drafted a law on salaries in the public sector, which focuses on correcting the inequalities in the local healthcare system and introduces performance bonuses for the healthcare and education personnel. The project has been published on the website of the National Trade Union Bloc (BNS). The project will correct certain failures in the public wage system. It has been drafted after long talks with the social partners. Unions in the education and in the public administration sector criticised the project and even threatened to boycott the local elections that are due to take place on 5 June. They are unhappy that the draft law fails to increase the salaries of workers in education or public administration.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanias-government-comes-new-law .
Draft law (in Romanian): http://www.bns.ro/2015-04-20-09-24-30/228-ordonanta-de-urgenta .
Rome's 24,000 municipal workers called for a general strike on 25 May to press for a new agreement. The main three union confederations, CGIL, CISL and UIL will organise this action.
English: http://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/05/18/rome-municipal-workers-to-strike .
The 2016 edition of the ILO World Employment and Social Outlook report is devoted to the issue of poverty. The main finding of this report is that decent work is a necessary precondition for ending poverty. Thus, without decent work, it will not be possible to meet the first goal of the Sustainable Development Agenda. Relying on economic growth alone will not be enough to eradicate poverty. The report demonstrates that the recent pattern of growth, associated with inequitable transfers of natural resource wealth, low productivity gains and lack of attention to the agricultural sector has only served to widen the gap between the rich and the poor and prolong the incidence of poverty. Worryingly, the rate of poverty is rising in developed countries, especially in Europe, so the goal of ending poverty is relevant to all regions.
English: http://www.ilo.org/global/research/global-reports/weso/2016-transforming-jobs .
The report: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_481534.pdf
The Council of the trade union of health and social care employees (LVSADA) requested on 17 May 2016 that the parliament hold a vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister. The decision was supported by 21 out of 28 Council members present at the meeting. LVSADA said that the medical trade unions had previously agreed to sign a compromise proposal for the government's action plan. However, the proposal for increased financing to healthcare to address the problems in the sector in accordance with the recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Commission was not included in the action plan approved by the government on 26 April 2016.
English: http://www.baltictimes.com/latvia_s_trade_union_of_health_and_social_care .