During the second quarter of 2014 the unemployment rate increased to 12.3%, with 3.1 million people being unemployed. The statistical office ISTAT has also published data in a pdf-file with regional figures. According to these figures the unemployment in the south is twice as high as compared to the north or the centre of the country. Youth unemployment still peaks at 41.5%.
English: http://www.istat.it/en/archive ...
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During a conference organised by the central confederation the participants discussed the fact that current wage growth is not meeting people's expectations which is why many are seeking work abroad as cost of living continues to increase and many people cannot make ends meet with their wages. The head of the trade unions formulated one of the key questions: `Do we want to continue seeing our wages grow 5, 7 or 10% a year and know that we will catch up with the EU only in 25 or 30 years, or do we have economic possibilities and are we ready to make an effort to catch up with the West faster?'
English: http://balticbusinessnews.com/article/2014/8/28/are-wages-growing-too-slowly ...
Based on the collective agreement for the commercial sector shop assistants are entitled to a 5% pay supplement when they use more than one language `almost daily' in the course of their normal daily customer service. This wording has been subject to a dispute since it was agreed in 1975. After a ruling of the labour court the long struggle is beginning to bear fruit. Seppl, one of the major clothing shops, is to start paying the supplement, as stipulated in the collective agreement.
English: http://heikkijokinen.info/en/trade-union-news-from-finland/588-labour-court ...
Trade unions representing the pilots have announced a week of strike between September 15 and 22, as part of a running dispute with the company over its strategy to compete against low-cost airlines. Pilots say they there is a complete lack of dialogue over the reorganisation of the airline as its parent company looks to strengthen its offering of short-haul flights. They stated that the threat to their jobs is too dangerous.
English: http://online.wsj.com/articles/air-frances-pilot-union-calls-for-one-week-strike ...
French: http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2014/08/28/les-syndicats-d-air-france-contre ...
The Portuguese Nurses Union has reacted disappointedly to the health ministry's announcement that 45 nurses will be hired for the Algarve. The union claims that 350 nurses are needed to get all services up to full capacity. Even by the standards of the Algarve Regional Health Board (ARS), who indicated that 169 professionals were needed, the current 45 new hires are far from sufficient. Since the austerity, hospitals take no responsibility for the heavily understaffed Basic Emergency Services (SUB). Unions say many nurses work 16 hour days for 15 or 16 days in a row to staff the units. The participation in a 24-hour strike to protest against long working hours, often without intervals, along with the continued shortage of doctors and nurses varied from a complete walkout at the Lagos Hospital to around 80 percent in Faro.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/algarve-health-strike-saw-90-percent ...
http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/union-deems-hiring-of-45-nurses-for-algarve ...
Staff of the National Theatre will receive a modest pay raise of 3.5% as of 1 January 2015. The employees have welcomed the pay hike, but also indicated that they will remain underpaid. The artists and staff at the National Theatre are paid only about half of those at the Czech Philharmonic on average.
English: http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/wage-increase-at-national-theatre ...
Statistics Sweden published figures for the 2nd quarter of 2014. The number of employed persons increased to 4 371 000, an increase of 1.2%. In the private sector the number of employed persons increased by 1.1%. Gross pay increased in total by 4.3% during the second quarter. Gross pay increased by 4.2% in the private sector and by 4.7% in the public sector. Although the economy is beginning to recover after several difficult years, the governor of the central bank warned that the risk for household indebtedness remains high.
English: http://www.scb.se/en_/Finding-statistics/Statistics-by-subject-area ...
Transport workers have organised actions at several IKEA stores in the Netherlands and Belgium, distributing leaflets and asking customers to support a campaign against IKEA, which they accuse of social dumping. The Belgian transport trade union BTB and FNV Bondgenoten in the Netherlands claim that IKEA is bringing in cheap labour from eastern European countries to transport their products. The unions say that these workers have few rights, are paid far less than the going rate in Western Europe and are often forced to sleep in their trucks. The aim is to end the cat and mouse game between the unions and the transport companies doing the job `IKEA is responsible for its policy of organising social dumping'.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/10822
Carmaker Skoda Auto wants to hire some 800 employees for its plant in Mlad Boleslav. A part of the employees will be gained from the ranks of the current agency workers. Skoda Auto has some 19,500 employees in Mlad Boleslav, and the average wage of blue-collar workers at the plant stands at around 1,222 euro a month. The company signed an agreement on employment with the unions last year. The agreement guarantees jobs to people who are interested in raising their skills and educating themselves.
English: http://www.praguepost.com/czech-news/41051-skoda-auto-to-hire-800-people ...
Workers at Madrid's Adolfo Su rez Barajas airport have called a strike for the last weekend of August to protest the privatisation of the state-owned airport operator AENA. The workers called off their initial strike for August 15th and 17th but have now decided to hold it from Friday 29th to Sunday 31st. The trade union CGT-Aena, representing the disgruntled airport workers, has sent out a press release arguing that their call for negotiations with the Ministry of Public Works and Barajas authorities has fallen on deaf ears.
English: http://www.thelocal.es/20140820/madrid-airport-staff-to-go-on-strike ...