Nine health and social care agencies around the country were hit by strike action in a dispute over pay. Unions warned that further industrial action will follow if workers do not receive pay restoration in line with public servants. Their employees are not classed as public servants but suffered the same pay cuts during the recession. Unlike public servants though, their pay has not been restored since.
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[close]The union representing the pilots of Air France’s low-cost airline Hop declared a strike action in an attempt to force the airline’s hand in currently stagnated talks over working conditions and salaries. If their demands are not met, the pilots’ union – Syndicat National des Pilotes de Ligne (SNPL) – will continue the strike every Friday until 30 April.
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[close]Wages in companies employing over nine people rose by 7.1% in January compared with the same month a year earlier, according to the Central Statistical Office.
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[close]The proportion of women on the labour market who work full-time is slowly rising. In 2019, 27% of women worked 35 hours a week or more, compared to 25% in 2016. In the same period, more male workers started working part-time. Just over half of the total workforce (4.6 million out of 9 million) was working full-time in 2019.
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[close]Members of the Federation of State and Municipal Employees (BSRB) have voted in favour of going on strike. Work stoppages will begin on 9 March, with a general strike commencing on 15 April, if a collective bargaining agreement has not been reached by that time. BSRB announced that 87.6% of union members who participated in the vote were in favour of the actions. This will apply to some 15,400 workers in 15 different trade unions.
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[close]Around 7,500 working days were lost in Sweden last year due to industrial action, breaking a years-long trend of decreasing conflicts. This figure is a big increase from the 50 working days lost to strikes and lockouts during 2018, and also up from the 2,570 days lost in 2017. Major conflicts between both port workers and SAS pilots and their employers led to the high figure, according to the annual report from the National Mediation Institute.
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[close]The sectoral trade unions Feneal Uil, Filca-Cisl and Fillea-Cgil decided to go on strike after the breakdown of the negotiations with Federlegno (the employers’ association) for the renewal of the national collective agreement for wood and furniture workers which expired on 31 March 2019. About 150 thousand workers are employed in this sector.
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[close]The Tübingen Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW) published a report that shows that academics’ incomes overtake that of supervisors and technicians only at the age of 60. The data is based on 12,453 people born between 1948 and 1986.
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[close]Thousands of university workers have been on strike, forming picket lines on campuses across the UK over pay, pensions and working conditions. The University and College Union (UCU) reported that support from staff and students remained solid, despite the fact it will be the third time university staff have gone on strike in the last three years, most recently just before Christmas.
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[close]The average net monthly real earnings increased by 2.1% in the last year, reaching EUR 1,133.50, the Statistics Bureau of Slovenia (SURS) reported. In nominal terms, the average net monthly wage rose by 3.7% last year. The average monthly gross earnings in 2019 amounted to EUR 1,753.84.
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