Postal workers throughout the country have gone on strike against low pay, bad working conditions and mismanagement. The workers demand a 20% pay rise, paid overtime, new uniforms, new staff to fill the vacant jobs and for current management resign. Further strike action is planned in Bucharest on 11 May and country-wide on 13 May.
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-postal-workers-announce-four-day ...
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The new head of the Trade Union Confederation, Peep Peterson, wants trade unions to become a force of progress through increased cooperation with social partners. Peterson's comments follow shortly after his predecessor criticised the weak state of unionism in Estonia, saying people must understand it's not enough to just pay membership fees and workers must want to fight to improve their working conditions. Peterson, on the contrary, stated the union needs less confrontation and more cooperation. Peterson said people will be more easily persuaded to become union members if they see the confederation can bring about progress.
English: http://balticbusinessnews.com/article/2013/5/6/trade-union-leaders-estonians ...
The minimum wage data bank NMW provides overviews of the minimum salary that most workers are entitled to be paid. The data shown are based on a monthly rate, even if in some other countries the basic rate is an hourly or weekly rate.
English: http://countryeconomy.com/national-minimum-wage/lithuania
Pilots union SNPL called off a strike scheduled to run until 30 May after speaking to transport minister Cuvillier. The union protest was aimed to protest against a 2012 law imposing a 48 hour notice period on transport workers who want to strike. The union reports that the notice period has been used by airlines to assign foreign pilots to striking workers' shifts. In the meeting with the transport minister, SNPL got assurances that the government considers these practices as strike breaking activities interfering with fundamental trade union rights and will counteract it in the future.
English: http://www.english.rfi.fr/economy/20140503-french-airline-pilots-call-strike
Thousands of workers at Keslog, Inex Partners, Oriola, Tuko Logistics and Lidl warehouses went on strike after the deadline for a collective agreement expired on 30 April 2014. Focus of the dispute between the Finnish Commerce Federation and trade union PAM are working hours and low pay rates for sick leave. Unions also report attempts by some employers to break the strike by asking workers who did not join the strike to work overtime. Some workers in a recruitment company received threats of dismissal if they supported the strike.
English: http://rogermckenzie.blogspot.nl/2014/05/thousands-of-warehouse-workers-strike ...
Trade unions at the Nosovice plant of Hyundai declared a strike alert. The unions have been negotiating a collective agreement with the car manufacturing since March, but have found no agreement on the wage increase. Rejecting the 5.5% offer made by Hyundai management, trade unions demand a pay hike of 9.5%. Currently workers at the Nosovice plant earn on average €1097 (Kc 30,094) per month, whereas manual workers earn an average €1009 (Kc 27,700).
English: http://praguemonitor.com/2014/05/02/trade-unions-hyundais ...
Police and trade union members clashed at Taksim square as activists braved the demonstration ban on the square that has been the centre for protest and 1st of May parades for decades. As the activists marched on Taksim square to celebrate May Day, riot policy employed tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse the crowd. Fifty protesters were injured and 138 detained.
English: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/may-day-clashes-in-istanbul-50-injured ...
After trade unions called on Lidl to respect the 1 May bank holiday, the supermarket chain agreed to keeps its shops closed. Days earlier, Lidl had announced its shops in Wasserbillig and Pommerloch would remain open and their staff expected to work. After trade unions sent out a press release calling on Lidl to respect the May day celebration, management agreed to keep the shops closed.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/lidl-shops-forced-to-close-on-may-1 ...
Police officers have announced they are preparing a leafleting action targeting tourists arriving to the country's ports and airports. The officers are protesting the far going cuts, which have left them with lower salaries, fewer colleagues and higher work pressure. Through the action, tourists will be made aware of the situation. Authorities as well as hospitality and catering association AHRESP have called on the police unions to refrain from printing the leaflets, which allegedly will tell tourists in five languages that the government is putting the internal security of the country at risk.
Portuguese: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/disgruntled-police-take-grievances ...
The initiative launched by an au pair bureau to reward Filipino au pairs for not getting pregnant within the two-year period of their stay has been sharply criticised by the trade unions. Aupair Agency Denmark motivated it as a bonus that will be attractive for those who `are only interested in money'. In future, Filipino au pairs must pay 3,500 kroner to come to Denmark for work, and if they manage to avoid becoming pregnant within a two-year period, they will be refunded the 3,500 kroner and receive a 6,500 kroner bonus on top. Trade union FOA qualified the initiative as illegal and sexually discriminatory. Therefore, the union intends to appeal to the equality tribunal at the moment the initiative comes into effect.
English: http://cphpost.dk/news/new-initiative-to-reward-au-pairs-for-not-getting-pregnant ...