Hundreds of striking port workers gathered in central Athens and marched to Parliament for a protest rally in a 24-hour strike to protest plans to sell a stake in the Piraeus Port Authority, the country's largest port. Privatising state-held assets is a key part of the country's international bailout agreement, under which the country has received billions of dollars in rescue loans from its partners in the Eurozone and the IMF since May 2010. In return pensions and salaries had to be cut and tax increased.
English: http://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/Greek-port-workers-strike ...
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The famous Rome Opera is in trouble since years. In 2013 the Opera lost 10 million euro. Operating costs were €61m, whereas the income was €51m, of which only 16% came from ticket sales and private sponsors. The trade unions are willing - despite the acute situation of the opera - to withdraw from industrial action and not to disrupt the theatre's programming for the first performance conducted by Riccardo Muti.
English: http://www.gramilano.com/2014/01/budget-disaster-rome-opera-strikes ...
Italian: http://roma.corriere.it/roma/notizie/arte_e_cultura/14_febbraio_25/teatro-dell-opera ...
European railway workers gathered in Strasbourg to call for quality railway services as the European Transport Workers' Federation organised a demonstration in front of the European Parliament. New proposals of the European Commission will lead to further liberalisation and fragmentation in the sector. The ETF stated that this has to be rejected because it will undermine the accessibility, affordability and quality of railway passenger services. And enhanced competition will inevitably lead to cost-cutting measures that put increased pressure on working conditions and employment.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/etf/etf-press-area.cfm/pressdetail/10152
http://www.tuc.org.uk/industrial-issues/transport-policy/unions-protest-against-threat ...
Four unions of railway workers initiated a solidarity strike. The aim is to strengthen the protest against the negative impact of proposed changes to the Labour Act on workers' rights and dignity, which are to be discussed in parliament this month. The railway workers took a strong stand against three municipal courts in Zagreb - the civil, the criminal and the court for labour disputes - that had unilaterally and unlawfully decided that its employees would have to work more than the minimum amount of work required during solidarity strikes.
English: http://dalje.com/en-croatia/trains-on-domestic-lines-to-stand-still ...
The parliament definitively passed a law slapping tough penalties on firms who shut down without looking for a buyer in three months' time. The law makes it compulsory for any company that employs more than 1,000 workers to look for a buyer for a site they want to close in three months' time. If they fail to do so they can be fined the equivalent of 20 times the minimum wage for each worker affected, or a sum of more than €28,000 per person laid off. Workers can also make an acquisition offer.
English: http://www.thelocal.fr/20140225/france-industry-florange
French: http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2014/02/24/l-assemblee-doit-voter-la-loi ...
The differences between blue and white collar workers have been discussed for years. By the end of 2013 a tripartite agreement was formulated. In February 2014 the last details have been finalised. The differences in the redundancy procedure disappear, sickness pay is from now on from the first day and the supplementary pension schemes will be harmonised. Trade union confederation ACV-CSC summarised the consequences.
French: http://www.csc-en-ligne.be/droit_social/nouveau-statut/nouveau-statut.asp
German: http://csc-ostbelgien.csc-en-ligne.be/Sozialrecht/Detail ...
Dutch: http://www.acv-online.be/Sociale_wetgeving/nieuw_werknemersstatuut ...
According to figures published by the official labour market agency ADEM, 19,565 people were registered as unemployed in January 2014, up from 19,200 people in December 2013. Although, the unemployment rate remained unchanged at the end of January at 7.1%, the actual number of people out of work rose. Compared with a year ago when the unemployment rate was 6.5%, the proportion of resident jobseekers has risen substantially with an additional 2,157 people joining the group of jobseekers.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/unemployment-rate-stabilises-but-jobseeker-numbers ...
French: http://www.adem.public.lu/actualites/2014/02/news_01_14/Bulletin-janv-2014.pdf
http://www.adem.public.lu/actualites/2014/02/news_01_14/Communique-de-presse ...
Figures of the statistical office Destatis show that while immigration from the EU's newest members is growing fast, numbers of people moving back from Germany to Bulgaria and Romania are climbing even faster. In the last 2 years, around 200,000 Bulgarians and Romanians have left, putting into doubt fears of a mass immigration from eastern Europe to the country. If the number of people leaving for Bulgaria and Romania are taken into account, the net figure for immigration from Romania increased by only 9% between 2012 and 2013 (from 41,684 to 45,484). And the net total of Bulgarian immigrants actually dropped by 10.5% on the previous year, from 21,394 to 19,143.
English: http://www.thelocal.de/20140224/thousands-bulgarians-and-romanias-leave ...
According to the latest monthly statistics released by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) unemployment rose by 0.6% in January 2014. These figures represent the worst results since April 2013, although in February 2013, during the typical winter rise in unemployment, the level was as high as 14.2%.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/163158,Unemployment-up-to-14-percent
The country underwent the sixth consecutive year of economic contraction in 2013, with its economy shrinking by 20% between 2008 and 2012 and anaemic or no growth projected for 2014. Unemployment has more than tripled, from 7.7% in 2008 to 24.3% in 2012, and long-term unemployment reached 14.4%. The economic crisis has deepened since it was bailed out by the international community in 2010. In a series of articles in the Lancet an assessment is made how austerity measures have affected the health of the population and their access to public health services. The authors explain how short-sighted measures intended to improve the country's economy have been counterproductive for the health of the people.
English: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article ...
http://www.enetenglish.gr/resources/article-files ...