National Gallery workers are organising picket lines after hearing the museum intends to outsource 400 of its 600 jobs in order to increase flexibility. Employees have received letters from management threatening legal consequences if they participate in industrial action and the gallery's senior local rep was suspended on the eve of the last strike. Trade unions are seeking public and political support to stop the outsourcing plans.
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The Council of the Trade Union of Health and Social Care Employees will organise a protest in Riga on 20 April when the city will host an informal meeting of the European Union's health ministers. The rally will be organised to protest insufficient funding, which this year is at just 3 percent of gross domestic product. Another major problem is that two largest hospitals in Latvia may be on the verge of insolvency. The European Commission's latest report on the economic development and implementation of the EU recommendations states that the proportion of residents with unmet healthcare needs in Latvia is the highest in the European Union, about three times above the EU average indicator. The main reasons for this include high healthcare costs, long waiting lines for specialist consultation visits, and shortages of healthcare access regionally. Healthcare access for vulnerable groups remains restricted, and primary care and referral systems are not sufficiently strong. Furthermore, waiting times for specialist consultations and cancer diagnostics are relatively high, and there is a lack of sickness prevention and health promotion.
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The average wage of women is 23 percent lower than that of men, and their median pay differs by about 20 percent, according to data from the information system on the average pay of the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry. In the public sector, the difference in salaries is lower than in the private sector, the difference being 17 percent. The differences are partly caused by the fact that women work in worse-paid professions and work less hours.
English: http://praguepost.com/economy/45879-women-earn-23-percent-less-than-men
The government has published a long list of 2015 collective agreements and pay arrangements that are declared generally binding. The agreements for the retail and metal have become binding as a whole. In other sectors, like the cleaning, IT and several building trades, the wage paragraphs are declared binding. In several sectors the duration of the binding period was prolonged. The decisions have been published on 16 March 2015 in the official journal (volume 79-86, in German).
German: https://apps.llv.li/Amtsblatt/kundmachung/displaySel
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Workers at private waste management firms are organising warning strikes as collective bargaining negotiations yielded a disappointing wage offer. In the second round of negotiations for a new collective agreement, employers offered a 1.1% wage increase, while trade unions have asked for a 7% increase in a 12 month agreement.
German: http://www.verdi.de/themen/nachrichten ...
Trade union LCGB has asked for written assurances against outsourcing from air freight company Cargolux before proceeding to the next stage of collective agreement negotiations. The negotiations, which started in the end of 2014 as reported in previous newsletters, seemed completely stalled until the dispute was referred to the national conciliation office in January. Unions and management have now agreed on a number of compromise solutions as well as to establish of several working groups to discuss remaining problems in more detail. Before agreeing to send delegates to the working groups, however, LCGB has now demanded guarantees against outsourcing. In particular, the demands are meant to stop the transfer of three planes to Cargolux Italia, taking jobs away from the Luxembourg sites.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/business/cargolux-contract-negotiations-union-wants ...
Car tyre manufacturer Vidachim will lay off 150 of its 446 workers due to a lack of orders. The workers, based in the poor northwest region of Vidin, will lose their jobs within a week. Vidachim management has said that due to the lack of orders, it can no longer afford to pay salaries and social security for its workers, leaving it no choice. Original plans involved the layoff of 314 workers, which was lowered to 150 after talks between workers and management.
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Employees at the Ruse plant of arms and ammunition manufacturer Dunarit announced strike action after the plant's export and trade licenses were suspended for four months, endangering the 750 workers' jobs. The ministry said its decision, based on undisclosed sources, was for the sake of the country's economic and financial stability and would prevent Dunarit from exporting its production as well as importing raw materials. Workers threatened to block the bridge between the Bulgarian city of Ruse and Romanian Giurgiu, but staged a peaceful protest after the Sofia court suspended the withdrawal of the licenses.
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Representatives from 14 medical personnel trade unions have decided to walk off the job on March 13, calling for better working standards. Media report that thousands of doctors participated in the strike, demanding five urgent changes. The demands include better working conditions, increased base pay for pensions, payment of overtime fees, better access to health care and more attention to quality delivered instead of the quantity of patients treated. Doctors said they are forced to work for low wages and that only five minutes are allotted per patient.
English: http://national.bgnnews.com/thousands-of-turkish-doctors-go-on-strike ...
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Unions report a mobilisation of above 80% in the 13 March civil servants' strike. The workers are striking to demand higher wages, accumulation of tenure, the maintenance of the 35-hours working week and a halt to a draft law that would allow workers to be fired without just cause. The strike affected rubbish removals, hospitals, fire departments, school, health and social services and judicial workers.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/large-participation-in-strike-action ...