Employees at United Chemical Works Company Ltd (EVM) in Budapest went on strike on 3 February over unpaid wages. The 100 workers fear that the company may try to relocate away from the site without paying the due salaries and have formed a permanent picket to prevent the removal of machinery from the plant. EVM management has not had any direct contact with the workers or the union representatives and has sent only lawyers to meetings instead. European trade union confederation IndustriALL has initiated an international support action.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/support-hungarian-chemical-workers-striking ...
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Six workers who were fired following union actions at Gate Gourmet on Geneva Airport were cleared by the court against charges brought forward against them by Gourmet management. The workers led a strike action on 14 September 2013 and were subsequently fired. After filing complaints of anti-union practices by Gourmet, its management brought criminal charges of trespass, rioting, verbal abuse, personal injury against the activists to justify their dismissals. On 4 February the prosecutor decided not to proceed with the case for lack of evidence against the workers. While Gourmet has announced it will appeal the decision, the Public Service Workers Union has called on the cantonal government to demand the reinstatement of the workers.
English: http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/3131; http://www.iuf.org/w/?q=node/2974
Eurofound has produced a report that focuses on working conditions and job quality across sectors in Europe. The report pinpoints trends in areas such as working time and work-life balance, work organisation, skills and training, employee representation and the psychosocial and physical environment. It identifies sectors that score particularly well or particularly poorly in terms of job quality and sheds light on differences between sectors in terms of health and well-being. The figures show that earnings vary considerably across sectors in Europe. They are highest in financial services, banking, insurance and computer programming, and lowest in agriculture and activities of households, followed by industrial cleaning, textiles and clothing, food and beverage services, retail, accommodation and other services.
English: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2013 ...
Drivers from small and medium truck carrier companies have blocked the Bulgarian-Turkish border at the Kapitan Andreevo checkpoint. The drivers are protesting against the closing of the border for trucks after a bilateral dispute between Turkey and Bulgaria about quota for transit traffic permits arose. While the Bulgarian Association of International Transport Carriers agreed not to organize a blockage after the prime ministers of both countries agreed to negotiations on 21 February, small and medium enterprises have said they cannot afford the losses of their trucks that have already been waiting at the check point for ten days.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view ...
http://www.novinite.com/articles/158032/Bulgaria ...
The Slovak Road Hauliers Association (UNAS) is on strike alert in reaction to expected new legislation on road transport. The hauliers object to the high number of toll roads, charges for driving through villages and high fines. Small and medium sized hauliers say the new regulations will endanger their businesses.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/52908/10/hauliers_on_strike_alert.html
According to data of the Labour Force Survey, the estimated number of unemployed persons, which had been 53,000 in the 3rd quarter of 2013, increased by 6,000 persons in the 4th quarter. The unemployment rate went up to 8.7% in the 4th quarter of 2013. In 2013, the youth unemployment rate (i.e. the share of unemployed persons aged 15-24 among the labour force of the same age) was 18.7% (20.9% in the previous year) or 2.5 times higher compared to the rest of the working-age population.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics ...
After 210 workers were laid off at Royal Bank of Canada Investment Services in Belval in 2013, new job cuts are expected. Reports indicate that about 40 jobs might disappear and RBC confirms that negotiations with employee representatives have started. RBC employs 1,400 people at its Belval site and has stressed that its operations in Luxembourg will not be discontinued.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/rbc-to-cut-further-jobs-in-luxembourg ...
The Institute Great Place to Work produces an annual assessment of the companies that attractive to work in. This time it has also checked the situation in all French companies. Since the start of the crisis in 2008 the optimism of workers has decreased and job satisfaction has gone down. Three-quarter of the working population personally feels the effect of the crisis, whether in their wages that have stagnated (62%), in augmented stress at the workplace (41%) or in intensification of work pressure (37%). Motivation problems have increased and especially low skilled workers feel the negative consequences.
French: http://www.institut-think.com/etudes/CP-Think ...
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions ICTU has made a formal complaint to the European Court of Human Rights on the state's failure to uphold an effective right to collective bargaining, in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. The complaint was lodged in the name of Congress and the Technical, Engineering & Electrical Union (TEEU) and was prepared by John Hendy QC. It is pinpointing the McGowan case which resulted in tens of thousands of workers being denied the effective right to collective bargaining, which is an essential element of Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
English: http://www.ictu.ie/press/2014/02/06/congress-makes ...
http://www.ictu.ie/download/pdf/collective_bargaining_ireland_jan_30.pdf
The cleaners and porters at London's Royal Opera House will receive a pay hike bringing them up to the living wage. The cleaners have been protesting against their low hourly wage of 7, which is not enough to get by in London. After threats of organising a
staff protest during the Bafta awards ceremony, the Opera House and subcontractor Mitie caved in and agreed to raise the wages to 8.80 per hour.
English: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/exclusive-royal-opera-house ...