Members of the Nurses and Midwives' Organisation (INMO) have voted to work-to-rule at Limerick university hospital and other Midwest region hospitals on 3 February because of overcrowding. The ballot resulted in 93% of nurses voting in favour of the action, which will see nurses refusing to perform administrative, clerical or non-clerical tasks. A similar protest is due to be held in Galway university hospital.
English: http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0113/672186-overcrowding/
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/nurses-in-galway-universal-hospital-vote ...
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The office of statistics produced the annual review with the main data of the principality. It includes sections on the national economy and on employment and education. Due to the strong economic growth, an above-average growth in employment over the past decades and the small size of the country, an increasing input of labour from neighbouring countries is required. More than half of the persons employed in Liechtenstein do not actually live there. The unemployment rate is actually 2.3%.
English: http://www.liechtenstein.li/fileadmin/Dateiliste ...
Thousands of bus drivers in the Greater London area walked off the job to demand a single pay deal, similar to the one Tube drivers recently achieved. Currently, the 27,000 drivers working at 18 bus companies are being paid according to over 80 different pay rates. Differences in pay can amount to £3 per hour. Trade union representatives said the drivers simply want to earn equal pay for the same job.
English: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/13/london-bus-strike-hits ...
http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/national/bus-drivers-begin-pay-strike-1-6517206
IT services provider Tieto has announced it intends to lay off 500 people due to restructuring. The management said that job cuts are necessary, since the work is increasingly automated. Tieto also said it will attempt to retain as much personnel as possible, who will be re-employed in growth areas. The trade union representing technology workers accused Tieto of poor management and inconsistent personnel practices.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/union_poor_management_at_tieto ...
The government has proposed the introduction of a minimum pension. It will be allocated for everyone who has paid old-age pension insurance for at least 30 years and achieved the retirement age. The measure, which is one out of a 15-measure social package, still needs to be passed by parliament. The minimum guaranteed pension is proposed to be almost €270 for 2015. The introduction of the minimum will affect over 75,000 pensioners in 2015 when the start of payments of minimum pensions is July 2015.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/56419/3/minimum_pension ...
Over 1,500 public school teachers have turned in their resignations from examination boards in a protest against education cuts. New policy came into effect that aims to cut costs by reducing teachers' salaries in examination periods, when they do not have to teach regular classes. Education minister Meisch has refused the resignations.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/politics/salary-cuts-dispute-meisch-refuses-examination ...
After long negotiations, trade union Lastik-Is has agreed with Brisa, a joint venture between Japanese Bridgestone and Turkish Sabanci Group, to put 600 workers on the company payroll. Brisa employed the workers via six out-sourcing firms and will now offer all 600 workers permanent contracts as direct hires.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/historic-union-victory-in-turkish-tyre ...
The study National minimum wage enforcement published by the trade union confederation TUC estimates that the number of workers not being paid the legal National Minimum Wage (NMW) in both the formal and grey economies is at least 250,000. Despite improvements to enforcing the statutory minimum wage, new ways of cheating and circumventing have emerged. The research found employers that were under-recording workers' hours, not paying for travel between work sites, or `vanishing' to avoid paying fines, only to reappear under a different name.
English: http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace-issues/employment-rights/minimum-wage ...
http://www.tuc.org.uk/sites/default/files/ImprovingNationalMinimum ...
A court in Den Bosch has decided that ten Hungarian lorry drivers who took legal action against a Dutch transport company for not paying them the same as Dutch workers should be paid according to the official Dutch pay and conditions agreement rather than the much lower Hungarian pay scale. The transport union FNV, campaigning already for years, has welcomed the ruling and says the drivers are entitled to an estimated €1m in back pay between them. The union says their Hungarian subsidiary employer is a letter-box firm and everything, including the job interviews, took place in the Netherlands.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/01/hungarian-lorry-drivers-win-claim ...
A recent ILO decision supports teachers' unions who filed a complaint against the 2013 lockouts (reported in the April 2013 edition of this newsletter). Teachers protested in 2013against increased teaching hours without more pay, as government and school boards were proposing. As the protests intensified, the government intervened by locking teachers out of schools, affecting children and parents. The ILO has judged that the government should not have excluded trade unions from the talks and that the lockout was unwarranted.
English: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news ...