Employees and the Board of Directors of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation (SRR) have clashed over a ban on external employees' representatives in the SRR's Administration Council. Currently, employees are allowed to elect two representatives to the council without restrictions. Following the example of the country's public TV broadcaster, however, SRR management decided to ban candidates from outside the institution from running for the two positions of employee's representative. Trade unions have demanded the ban be lifted, arguing the employees' choice must be unrestricted and that the external representatives have been the most effective one, precisely because of their relative independence from management.
English: http://www.ifj.org/nc/news-single-view/backpid/129/article/rights-of-staff ...
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The National Civil Aviation Workers Union (SINTAC) has announced an all-out strike that is scheduled to last from 18 to 28 June and disrupt all SATA flights to and between the nine Azores islands. The strike is called over alleged retaliatory action by SATA against 15 workers who have changed union affiliations
English: http://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-alert-sata-air-azores-on-strike ...
Representatives from the Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia (SSSS) have said that they never agreed to any of the changes in the draft labour law, refuting rumours to the contrary. SSSS said it cannot support the law, which would weaken trade union rights and working conditions of their members. The union objects to the proposal for the severance pay to only cover the years of employment at the most recent employer and the payments of two rather than three average salaries upon retirement. Furthermore, the law would make an end to the extended application of collective agreements, which currently still exists and is supported by unions and employers alike.
English: http://www.tanjug.rs/news/132219/unions--proposed-labour-law-amendments ...
Per 1 July a series of increases including higher minimum wages, prices and fines will become effective. The national minimum wage will increase from RON 850 to RON 900 (? 205), the second increase in 2014. The first took place in January when the salary went up to RON 850 from RON 800. Electricity bills will include the famous special property tax and the price for natural gas will also experience a hike, fuelled by the National Energy Authority's (ANRE) decision to increase gas imports during the summer. Roaming charges are going to drop and the tax exemption for reinvested profit will come into effect.
English: http://www.balkans.com/open-news ...
The trade union UNIA and the Living At Home Association have negotiated a collective agreement in private care for the elderly in the German-speaking region. The agreement, which covers over 6000 employees, offers higher wages in a fast growing sector. The agreement, which furthermore regulates working and rest times, sick pay, training and the establishment of a joint committee to supervise and verify the implementation of the collective agreement, was welcomed by employers and trade unions alike as a means to ensure decent working conditions and combat exploitation by a number of employers whose bad practices continue to make national news. The parties have requested the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) to declare the collective agreement to be generally binding for the whole German-speaking region.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/new-collective-agreement-secures ...
Rome's police officers, social workers, teachers and municipal civil servants, organised by Fp-Cgil, Cisl-FP, Uil-Fpl and CSA, organised a common protest on 6 June. The workers demanded to be treated with dignity as they protested against a new austerity package that is expected to reduce wages by €200 per month.
English: http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/95190/Municipal-workers--protest-slows-Rome ...
In an updated profile some specificities of the collective bargaining structure for the entire economy are described. The article illustrates the developments in the collectively agreed wages by the examples of the chemical sector, retail and civil services. The author notes that there has been a jurisprudential procedure which has resulted in judges considering a salary to have met the requirements outlined in the Constitution when it has been established in a national collective agreement stipulated by the most representative employer and trade union organisations. The national collective agreement, therefore, represents de facto the norm to be referred to for all workers and enterprises in the various sectors.
English: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/studies ...
Lengthy talks over workload and resulting health issues between trade union Ver.di and the Berlin based Charit hospital group have yielded an agreement on jobs. The group will hire 80 additional workers and a joint committee will investigate particular units of the hospital group where the workload is considered excessive by employees.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/10541
German: http://gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de/ueber-uns/nachrichten ...
Trade union Ver.di has called out strikes at more Amazon warehouses as the company continues to refuse to apply the correct collective agreement. In a long-running conflict that has seen dozens of strike actions, reported in this newsletter over the last years, Amazon pays its staff according to the collective agreement for logistics workers, whereas all other delivery services in the country correctly apply the collective agreement for retail and mail order workers. Last month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was chosen as the world's worst boss in a poll by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), in which over 20,000 members selected him as the worst of nine CEOs that habitually abuse workers' rights.
English: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/German-union-extends-strikes ...
http://www.ituc-csi.org/amazon-s-jeff-bezos-wins-ituc ...
Data compiled by the Central Statistical Bureau show that in the 1st quarter of 2014 average monthly gross wages and salaries, compared to the 1st quarter of 2013, increased by 7.7% from 689 euro to 742 euro. The wages in the private sector increased slightly faster, 8.7% annually, whilst the public sector scored 6.1%. In the 1st quarter of 2014 average gross wages and salaries in the public sector comprised 770 euro, in the private sector 727 euro. The national minimum wage changed as of 1 January 2014 from 285 to 320 euro or by 12.5%, which affects changes in average wages and salaries.
English: http://www.csb.gov.lv/en/notikumi/wages-fund-has-grown-much-faster ...