Protesting health workers set up camp in front of a hospital to demand the reinstatement of 98 workers dismissed for demanding higher wages and shorter working hours, and for joining Dev Saglik-Is - the health union of the trade union confederation, DISK. In a new protest in front of the Maltepe University Hospital in Istanbul the general secretary of DISK, together with 34 more people, was detained.
English: http://world-psi.org/en/turkish-health-workers-attacked-and-arrested ...
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The joint trade unions are ready to start a labour dispute at ThyssenKrupp's Terni facility if the company continues its policy of marginalising the most vulnerable temporary workforce. After a long dispute an agreement was signed in December 2014 that guarantees sub-contracted workers their outplacement and training (see our December Newsletter). However, the agreement between unions, employers and different governmental institutions remains so far only on paper, according to the unions.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/tyssenkrupp-imposes-cuts-at-the-expense-of ...
A state labour mediator decreed that a walkout had to be postponed for a couple of weeks to allow more time for contract talks. However, the seafarers union is furious at this move that will block a threatened strike by ship crews. The collective agreement runs out at the end of the month. Meanwhile, the employers have stated that they are ready to resume contract negotiations soon.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/union_anger_as_icebreaker_crews_strike_put_on_ice ...
Trade union KOVO announced a strike alert of employees of bus companies over what they called a stand-off following bargain talks on pay increases. The union wanted a pay increase to the average salary of €550 by €40 per month, before later cutting the demand to €36. Employers first proposed a zero increase before suggesting a 1.5% rise, some €9.50 a month for employees with the lowest salaries.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20056326/kovo-union-announces-strike-alert ...
The government has decided to bypass the parliament as the government struggled to win a parliamentary majority over contested reforms. The highly divisive package of measures, including the extension of Sunday shopping, was passed by a clause known as `49-3' that allows the government to pass a bill, without a parliamentary vote. The bill is considered as having passed unless the parliament votes through a motion of no-confidence in the government, which analysts see as highly unlikely. The reform extends the number of Sundays that shops are allowed to open from a maximum of five per year to 12. In certain areas classed as `international tourist zones' shops will be able to open every Sunday.
English: http://www.thelocal.fr/20150217/macron-economyfrench-reforms ...
Trade union IG Metall succeeded in securing a 3.4% pay rise in a deal with employers following warning strikes by more than 850,000 workers nationwide. The agreement, which affects 800,000 metal and electronics workers in the key German industrial region of Baden-Württemberg, was reached between IG Metall and the employers' groups. The deal provides the basis for bargaining agreements in other regions across the country covering a total 3.7 million workers. The pay rise is due to take effect in April. Workers also receive a one-time payment of 150 euros for January-March 2015.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/ig-metall-secures-34-per-cent-industry-pay-rise
According to an OECD Economic Survey continued reforms will promote a rapid and sustainable pace of convergence with upper-income countries while limiting the risk of repeated boom-and-bust cycles. While continued efforts on structural policies are needed to dismantle the various obstacles hindering Latvian firms' productivity and sustainable convergence with Europe the reduction of high levels of inequality and the risk of poverty will be challenging.
English: http://oecd.org/economy/surveys/economic-survey-latvia.htm
The Socialist Party in parliament has proposed to entirely change the 2012 Labour Code, which `leaves employees unprotected'. In addition, it was proposed to allow men, similarly to women, to retire after 40 years of service and to place services for people living with disabilities on new foundations. The head of Parliament's welfare committee, said a constitutional amendment was necessary to stipulate that citizens shall have the right to social security and are entitled to appropriate support for their livelihood in case of old age, sickness, disability, widowhood, losing parents or becoming unemployed through no fault of their own.
English: http://www.politics.hu/20150225/socialists-seek-radical-changes-to-labour-code/
Figures of people who are employed on zero hours contracts in their main employment, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and coming from the Labour Force Survey, estimate that, by the end of 2014, the total number of people employed on zero hours contracts represented 2.3% of total in employment - up on the previous year when the figure stood at 1.9%. In its release, the ONS note that it is `not possible to say how much of this increase is due to greater recognition of the term `zero-hours contracts' rather than new contracts'. The trade union confederation TUC stated that zero-hours contracts sum up what has gone wrong in the modern workplace: anyone on such a contract has no guarantee of any work from one day to another. In many sectors, especially social care, zero-hours contracts are used to drive down costs regardless of the impact on services and the workforce.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2015/feb/25/zero-hour-contracts ...
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lmac/contracts-with-no-guaranteed-hours/zero-hour ...
A report of the European trade union federations EPSU and EFFAT along with a coalition of European and American trade unions reveals that McDonald's deliberately has avoided over €1 billion in corporate taxes in Europe over the five year period 2009-2013. The tax avoidance strategy essentially consisted of moving the European headquarters from the UK to Switzerland as well as using intra-group royalty payments and channelling them into a Luxembourg based subsidiary with a Swiss branch. The report criticises that while transnational corporations like McDonald's are avoiding taxes in Europe, public sector workers are having their wages slashed, and nurses and social carers are facing layoffs. In fact, more than 56,000 tax inspectors have been cut throughout the EU at precisely the moment they are most needed to investigate companies like McDonald's.
English: http://www.notaxfraud.eu/sites/default/files ...