Total SA workers have called for a country-wide strike 2 July at refineries, oil depots and crude import terminals to protest a plan to stop processing the fuel at the La Mede plant on the south coast. In calling for a wider strike, trade union CGT wants to protest the planned `death' of crude refining at La Mede. The union also called for blockades of Total service stations around the country every Thursday during the summer months until the oil company withdraws its proposals.
English: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-30/total-workers-call.
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A series of strikes at Calais by ferry workers caused the closure of the port and brought chaos for passengers travelling between the UK and France. There were long queues for the Eurostar. Chaotic scenes were sparked by the strike actions. Employees of MyFerryLink are protesting against plans to sell two of their ferries to rival firm DFDS in an attempt to save their 600 jobs. Eurotunnel suspended its services for safety reasons after port workers trespassed on its tracks. Workers renewed a blockade of the northern French port of Calais after a court rejected their bid to extend the service's charter contract with Eurotunnel.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/30/cross-channel-ferries .
http://www.france24.com/en/20150630-channel-tunnel-closed-protesting-ferry-workers
Several European trade unions and international trade union bodies have called on the negotiators to work towards a balanced deal. A blog of the US confederation AFL-CIO criticises the IMF and EC policy that forces the country to weaken its collective bargaining structures, lower its labour standards and wages, so that the people are forced to bow to the will of the market. The international trade union confederation ITUC concludes that years of failed austerity policies imposed on the country have impoverished millions and actually worsened the debt crisis. The ETUC is warning for a Grexit that would undermine the credibility of the euro, could derail Europe's modest economic recovery and create tensions in South East Europe; all for the sake of imposing yet more austerity on a country already on its knees.
English: https://www.etuc.org/press/think-long-and-hard .
http://www.ituc-csi.org/greece-bank-closures-political ...
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/Economics-as-Religion
Groundforce, the subsidiary handling company of Globalia, will begin indefinite strikes starting in July. The strike will affect some of the main airports and various major airlines. The strike is the result of the inability to come to an agreement over the third collective bargaining agreement between the company and the trade unions. Some of the grievances are related to salary and the creation of permanent employment in all airports where the workforce with an indefinite contract is below 65%. The strike will involve over 3,500 workers including passenger and loading/unloading handling operators. Meanwhile, the Madrid Ryanair handling strike is still ongoing.
English: http://www.flightconsulting.com/globalia-to-begin-indefinite-strikes .
Two days before an all-out strike would start at PSA Peugeot Citroen Slovakia it was possible to find a compromise on pay. Based on the agreement, employees will receive a one-off benefit of €450 to be added to their July salaries, while their total monthly wages will increase by €30 as of 2016. They will also get a bonus of €75 every quarter based on the company's results. In total this means €840 per employee. Earlier on around 400 employees of the carmaker took part in a protest calling on the company to increase salaries. According to the metal workers trade union the workers at PSA in Trnava have the lowest average salaries from among all carmakers in Slovakia (others being Volkswagen in Bratislava and Kia near Zilina). The carmaker was in a difficult situation two years ago, so the workers agreed with freezing their salaries for 2013 and 2014, but now serious profits are made again. Production operators earn €665 monthly without bonuses (up by 1.3 percent year-on-year), qualified production staff €910 a month (up by 1.3 percent), and technical staff €1,244 a month (up by 1.4 percent), according to documents from the carmaker.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20058460/compromise-at-psa-peugeot-citroen .
Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest that Northern Ireland households have, on average, the lowest incomes of any UK region. The published data cover the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes in 2014. The figures show the average household in NI paid £12,000 in taxes and received £13,000 in direct and indirect benefits. Average earnings are £25,540 giving a final household income of £26,500. The UK average final income is just under £32,000 and the highest average is in London at almost £39,000.
English: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons .
The government has planned a modification of a law on public works (established in 2011) that could give local mayors the possibility of hiring out public workers to small- and medium-sized companies wishing to employ public workers as seasonal labourers. Workers that decline can be barred from performing public work for three months. Moreover, those agreeing to perform seasonal work will be put in a vulnerable position in that if they quit their jobs or if their job is terminated by mutual consent, they will be barred from performing public work for three months. The opposition labelled the plans as being part of a new feudalism.
English: http://budapestbeacon.com/public-policy/mayors-to-farm-out-public-workers .
Ferries will be operating normally this week as seamen have decided to call of their strike due to the latest political and economic developments. Trade union PNO representatives called the strike because they feel their collective work contracts are not being respected by some firms. However, PNO said that the strike would be postponed so passengers would be free to travel ahead of Sunday's referendum on whether Greeks should accept lenders' bailout proposals.
English: http://www.ekathimerini.com/198506/article/ekathimerini/news/sailors-call-off .
Workers at the Bulmers brewery in Clonmel are threatening strike action in a row over redundancy terms. Members of trade union Unite have voted in favour of industrial action after the company allegedly breached a collective agreement with the unions when making a worker redundant. Despite an unambiguous agreement concluded in 2009 between Bulmers and the unions, the company made one of the Unite members redundant on terms which will amount to around half of what was agreed. Inexplicably, the company informed the workers represented by Unite that they were not covered by the 2009 agreement.
English: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/workers-at-bulmers-brewery-threatening .
The Belfast based Court of Appeal ruled that voluntary overtime may have to be included in workers' holiday pay entitlements. This decision, in a legal challenge by an employee of the former Castlereagh Borough Council, could have a huge impact across the UK. The case was brought by an assistant plant manager at the council, over alleged unauthorised deductions from his wages. Earlier on a tribunal rejected his claim that earnings from voluntary overtime should be used to calculate paid annual leave. But his lawyers appealed on the basis that this would mean he would lose money when he took holidays.
English: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/holiday-pay-ruling .