Post office workers have until Wednesday 11th June to vote on a pay deal reached after months of industrial action and negotiations between trade union CWU and Post Office Ltd. If accepted, the deal will see the pay of staff employed in Crown Post Offices increase by up to 7.5% with lump sum payments totalling 3,300 for full-time employees and pro-rata pay-outs for part-timers, paid in instalments over the course of 2015.
English: http://www.cwu.org/news/archive/post-office-workers-to-vote-on-pay-deal.html
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The Youth Poverty Monitor 2014 reports that the country's youth is having an increasingly hard time. Every fifth teenager lives in poverty or is on the borderline. The annual study, which brings together available statistics and research on young people aged 15 to 24, found that education plays a key role. Those worse affected by youth poverty were teenagers with leaving certificates from Hauptschule schools, the lowest rung on the academically-tiered school system, or those who drop out early.
English: http://www.thelocal.de/20140530/poverty-youth-germany-study
German: http://www.jugendarmut.info/monitor_jugendarmut_2014
A draft federal law to set uniform national opening hours for shops is running into opposition from cantons, municipalities and trade unions representing store workers. The law would allow shops across the country to stay open on weekdays from 6am to 8pm and from 6am to 7pm on Saturdays. All the country's cantons, except for Ticino, oppose the law because they say the legislation is a serious threat to their autonomy. The trade unions oppose the federal law because it would change the working conditions for shop employees who are already facing stress and put under pressure. The extension of hours would mean working more in the evening without extra compensation.
English: http://www.thelocal.ch/20140530/proposed-shopping-hours-law-faces-resistance
Flights at Rome Fiumicino and Milan's Malpensa and Linate airports were facing disruption resulting from a strike coordinated by the trade unions, including baggage handlers and staff working with airlines Alitalia and Easyjet. At Fiumicino airport, baggage workers were due to hold a sit-in, to protest against 850 jobs being put at risk at handling company Groundcare. Trains, metros, buses and trams were also hit by a workers' strike, affecting all major cities.
English: http://www.thelocal.it/20140530/flights-at-risk-as-strike-hits-italy-airports
The trade union confederation CGTP staged a week of protests and strike action as a form of national action to fight for the improvement of the national minimum wage. The demand was to hike the minimum monthly wage by €30, from the current €485 to €515, as well as a general rise in salaries, for a reduction in working hours and against obstacles imposed on collective action.
Portuguese: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/portugals-largest-trade-union-takes ...
Aer Lingus cabin crew organised a 24-hour strike over rosters. Pickets were placed on Dublin, Cork and Shannon Airports and the cabin crew marched through Dublin Airport to Aer Lingus headquarters to hand in a letter to management outlining their position. Meanwhile, efforts are continuing to arrange a date for a meeting between management and trade union Impact in a bid to resolve the row. The cabin crew says their current roster is erratic and imposes excessive fatigue on them. They want the same roster that applies to pilots, which involves working 5 days on, then 3 days off.
English: http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2014/0529/620474-aer-lingus-strike/
The real income of households dropped in 2013, according to the Statistical Office's Standards of Living in 2013 survey that reflects the situation in 2012 and spring 2013. In 2012, the average net financial income of a household reached 5,450 euro per capita, up 84 euro compared to 2011. According to the social survey department, the increase in income in 2012 was driven by tax changes, thanks to which net income grew faster than the gross income.
English: http://www.czso.cz/csu/2014edicniplan.nsf/engp/160021-14
http://eu.cianews.cz/english-news/csu-czech-households-real-income-down-in-2013 ...
Trade unions at the Slovak division of German carmaker Volkswagen called off a warning strike in Volkswagen's plant in Bratislava. A new collective agreement raises the basic salary 2.4% retroactively as of April 2014. Another pay rise of 2.3% is scheduled to take effect at the start of 2015. Employees will also get a bonus of 280 euros. The plant's management promised to maintain employment levels until the end of 2017. Workers were preparing industrial action after collective agreement negotiations failed. Breaking point was the request by management for employees to accept a 4% reduction in working hours and pay. Unionists reported that the initial Volkswagen-request had even been to reduce the wages but not the working time.
English: http://www.praguepost.com/eu-news/39305-strike-alert-called-off-at-slovak ...
The level of unemployment fell from 13.5% to 13% in April. Analysts predict that with winter over, the level will continue to decrease, as an increasing number of seasonal jobs become available. The growth pace in the purchasing power of wages and salaries was weaker than in March 2014.
English: http://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/aggregated-studies/informations-on-socio-economic ...
Around 6.5 million employees in the UK were trade union members in 2013. The level of overall union members was broadly unchanged from 2012, with a reduction of only 6,000 over the year (a 0.1% decline), but well below the peak of over 13 million in 1979. The overall number of employees increased between 2012 and 2013. As a result, the membership rate fell slightly to 25.6% in 2013, from 26% in 2012. Private sector membership rose by 61,000 to 2.6m, including increases in transport, finance and arts and entertainment.
English: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads ...
http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/union-issues/stronger-unions-blog/rising-union ...