Metal workers at the Tenaris Group's Dalmine factory held a one day strike against 406 redundancies. In February, Tenaris Group announced it would not prolong the contracts for 406 jobs, including 120 apprentices. Workers of the Dalmine factory went one strike, with colleagues from other plants organising solidarity actions. Trade unions demand the use of solidarity contracts and to be involved in talks about making the business profitable.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/metalworkers-mobilize-against-redundancies ...
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Trucking and haulage companies from Austria, Poland and Hungary are filing a legal complaint against the application of the minimum wage of €8.50 per hour for all truckers using German roads. Contrary to most countries, Germany did not exempt transit workers from its recently adopted minimum wage, thus obliging foreign trucking companies to pay the German minimum wage while on German roads. The suing companies argue that the application of the minimum wage is leading disproportional administrative burdens, while Germany has argued the measure is needed to fight wage dumping.
English: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/germany-forces-transit-truck-drivers-minimum-wage ...
Trade unions report large scale union busting practices at Roma Plastic, the Gebze plant of the subsidiary of Austrian building materials manufacturer Egger Group. Management is reportedly offering unions members bonuses if they leave the union and 14 activists have been fired. The union busting activities only intensified after Lastik-Is union received the necessary certificate to represent the plant's workers from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. Asked by international and European trade union confederations to help, Egger Group headquarters in Austria responded it views the issue as a local problem.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/egger-group-continues-union-busting ...
The ten-day pilots' strike which has seen nearly all of budget airline Norwegian's Scandinavian flights grounded has been resolved. Norwegian, Europe's third-largest budget airline, and the trade unions struck a deal that secures the jobs of the airline's Scandinavian pilots until October 2017. In return, the pilots made concessions on wages and pensions. After marathon talks that ended earlier this month without a deal reached a representative of the pilots' union had already stated that the unions and the airline agreed to focus on resolving the conflict rather than arguing in the media.
English: http://www.thelocal.no/20150311/norwegian-cancels-160-flights-after-brokering ...
Workers at IKEA are reinvigorating their trade union in a fight to save jobs and maintain decent wages. The union is in the process of renewing its mandate and holding elections for workers' representatives. The activists have the aim of setting up a real social dialogue in order to maintain employment and wage levels, as well as decent working conditions.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/ikea-greece-trade-union-continues-fight-decent ...
In a larger article on investment in education it is revealed that countries that prioritise education see the benefits decades later. The publication of a report in 1965 entitled Investment in Education resulted in a change in policy and the introduction of free secondary education in 1967. Evidence does suggest that this educational transformation had a major economic effect in terms of participation rates, albeit decades after the initial investment took place. Figures published by the Central Statistics Office show that, since the recovery in employment began, a majority of the net jobs created have been for graduates and there have been no net new jobs for those who had not completed the Leaving Certificate. It is to be hoped that the economic recovery will bring growth in jobs for those with more limited educational attainment too but it is clear that the bulk of the employment being created requires quite a high level of education.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/how-our-education-system-affects ...
The observatory on the Fight Against Poverty in the city of Lisbon reported that some 6,700 households and 18,273 citizens received support from the food bank Banco Alimentar during 2014. Banco Alimentar collects foodstuffs direct from shoppers on several different occasions over the year and runs an extensive volunteer network for such purposes.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/food-bank-helps-feed-18273-in-lisbon ...
The shop workers trade union Usdaw has reached an agreement with the Co-operative Employers Association that will see pay increase by 8.5% over the next two years. The package includes proposals to simplify existing reward practices, improve consistency and better align the Co-op to market practices among major food retailers. The deal will now be put to a ballot of Usdaw members.
English: http://www.usdaw.org.uk/About-Us/News/2015/March/Usdaw-negotiates-an-8-5-pay ...
In what is being called the largest industrial arbitration case in the country's history, the Italian firm Cipa, one of three Italian firms serving as subcontractors on the massive expansion of Copenhagen's Metro system, has been found guilty of underpaying its workers. An arbitration court ruled that Cipa has underpaid around 200 employees from Portugal, Italy and Romania. The company must compensate the employees with 22 million kroner (2.95 million euro). Trade union 3F represented the employees and although the ruling was less than the 30.5 million kroner in compensation the union hoped for, it was still the largest arbitration ruling in the construction industry's history and 3F called it a major win against social dumping.
English: http://www.thelocal.dk/20150310/italian-firm-found-guilty-of-underpaying ...
A railway strike has been called by the CGT trade union in protest against planned rail reforms. The contentious reforms were put into place in January and are intended to tackle the rail sector's soaring debt, which stands at more than €40 billion. The reforms aim to cut costs by bringing together 149,000 employees at train operator SNCF and the 1,500 at RFF railway network to eventually open up parts of the service to competition. The CGT is of the opinion that the reforms will lead to job losses without reducing debt.
English: http://www.thelocal.fr/20150309/french-rail-strike-minimal-disruption-expected