Trade union Mandate has published figures that reveal it has secured more than €20m in pay increases for its members in only the last two years. The agreed pay increases range from 2 to 4%. The increase was welcomed as it will secure more decent wages and improved purchase power for workers and their families.
English: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/union-wins-20m-pay-rises ...
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Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union have organised a 48 hour strike in the London Underground and have announced further action for 5 May. While three other unions decided against industrial action, RMT members voted in favour of opposing the looming closure of every one of the underground's ticket offices. Last minute talks mediated by ACAS failed to resolve the conflict as hours of discussion did not yielded any breakthrough. RMT members have also voted in favour of strike action on the Heathrow Express, where half of the workers are expected to lose their jobs in a reorganisation.
English: http://news.sky.com/story/1251353/tube-strike-leads-to-long-queues ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tube-strike-april-2014-london ...
The government has approved a mechanism for court-mandated compensation for pension cuts made during the crisis, under which payments will be phased over several years starting in the fourth quarter of 2014. The Constitutional Court ruled in February 2012 that the government had to compensate pensioners for the pension cuts. The government will use surplus revenue in the state social insurance fund Sodra's budget as the source of funds for compensation payments.
English: http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/67361/government-okays-mechanism ...
A recent study by Statec has shown that Luxembourg has more work related accidents (2,900 per 100,000 workers) than the EU average (2,300). In 2010, a total of 16,000 work place accidents were reported, 14 of which resulted in the death of the worker. The most reported injuries were stress, depression and anxiety. This was followed by skeletal, joint and muscle issues, affecting above all the back, neck and upper body. Sectors where most injuries were reported were construction (8.1%) and catering (6.5%).
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/16-000-workplace-accidents-in-luxembourg ...
Sixty call centre workers have founded the Sindicato Nacionalÿdos Trabalhadores de Call Centers, which aims to represent call centre workers and claims independence from established unions UGT and CGTP. The founders say their primary aims are to combat precariousness and to establish effective collective representation in a sector with extremely high turnover rates. The new union says the sector is full of young workers who are rarely paid more than €4 per hour and are forced to work on temporary contracts on a permanent basis. Trade unions CGTO and UGT have warned against the dangers of scattered workers' representation in the sector, but added that they look forward to a good cooperation if the national call centres union succeeds.
Portuguese: http://www.esquerda.net/artigo/trabalhadores-de-call-center-fundam-sindicato ...
A publication of Statistics Portugal marks the 40th anniversary of this research and uses statistical data to illustrate the path taken and the major changes recorded in the last four decades (available only in Portuguese). Chapter 6 provides graphs and data on labour market participation, education, wage development and sectoral distribution of the workforce.
Portuguese: http://www.ine.pt/xportal ...
Public service unions announced that they will be seeking pay increases in 2015 if public finances continue to improve. From the beginning of the financial and economic crisis, public service unions and the government have agreed on wage moderation in exchange for job guarantees. The unions feel that civil servants have borne a disproportional amount of the burden of the country's reforms and deserve to be recompensed as soon as the country situation improves.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/civil-servants-set-to-seek-pay ...
In a recent Eurobarometer poll, a mere one in three Romanians said they would consider their working conditions to be good and 55% stated their working conditions are worse than 5 years ago. The respondents judged their employment conditions less favourably than the average Europeans, 53% of whom considered their working conditions to be good. Some 79% of Romanians said they had been provided information or training about health and safety, 69% agreed their workplaces had taken measures to prevent problems or accidents, although only 29 percent thought their workplace had been adapted well for older people
English: http://www.romania-insider.com/working-conditions-getting-worse ...
Trade union UHM urged the health minister to keep a set of promises that was made before the 2013 elections. Amongst other things the agreement between the union and minister that dates back to February 2013 states that workers who have obtained a master's degree or have the grade of Assistant Principal are automatically placed in Scale 7 of the civil service, that 16 persons were to be promoted to the post of managers and that professionals who had two-year experience should have been automatically promoted to scale. A year after the agreement, the changes have not been implemented. UHM announced that it will be preparing industrial action if the promised aren't kept.
English: https://www.uhm.org.mt/health-minister-assures-agreement-honoured/
According to an analysis of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) 80% of households in Bulgaria live on incomes below the monthly maintenance rate. According to CITUB data for the first three months of 2014, every fifth household in Bulgaria lives in extreme poverty and fails to cover basic needs. The number of people living in extreme poverty stands at around 1.5 million.
English: http://www.novinite.com/articles/160056/