The EU Member States have successfully blocked a 1.7% wage increase for EU staff. In line with general practice, the European Commission attempted to raise salaries in 2011 to adjust them to actual living costs in Brussels and civil servant salaries in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. However, member states objected to the pay hike on the grounds of austerity policies implemented in the member states and advocated for by the European institutions. The European Court of Justice has now ruled that the member states have the right to block the wage increase.
English: http://www.euractiv.com/euro-finance/european-top-court-blocks ...
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Following a disappointing lack of progress in the public sector hospital negotiations on 13 November, midwives took to the street on 19 November to demand higher wages and better working conditions. Next to wage increases, the midwives are also asking for a revaluation of their position in the pay structure, which is more in line with the skills and responsibilities.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/9945
French: http://www.cgt.fr/Appel-a-une-manifestation.html
After talks with trade unions and parliamentary coalition, the government announced it will instate a tax refund for workers earner less than the minimum wage. The tax refund will come into force in the beginning of 2015, applying to income earned in 2014, and aims to reduce poverty. The prime minister confirmed that, even at the increased 2014 level of BGN 340 (?173) per month, the minimum wage is not enough to lift people out of poverty.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view_news ...
Employees at Zagreb International Airport have announced strike actions against a worsening of their working conditions. The airport is in the process of being taken over by a French led consortium, which trade unions have said are refusing to uphold the terms of the current collective agreement. After reconciliation failed, the unions have announced three strikes. The first strike, on 21 November, will last from 10:00 to midnight; the second strike, starting on 25 November will last three days. If no solution has been reached until then, the airport employees will go on indefinite strike from 1 December onwards.
English: http://www.balkans.com/open-news ...
An increasing share of university graduates are working in jobs that do not require an academic education. University graduates are unemployed less often than their lower educated peers; however, in 2013 up to 47% of them worked in non-graduate jobs (compared to 37% in 2001). Despite tuition fees tripling to 9,000 per year, recent graduates also earn 12% less than their colleagues who entered the labour market just before the crisis.
English: http://www.studenttimes.org/article/news/graduate-news/graduates-more-likely ...
Following difficult negotiations that left Finnair outside of the national wage agreement reached last month, management, the Finnish Flight Attendants Association (SLSY) and the Finnish Aviation Union (IAU) reached an agreement over pay and working conditions. Only hours after the agreement was signed, however, another strike already loomed for Finnair. Members of SLSY and IAU announced they were prepared to join a solidarity strike for their catering colleagues, who had not yet reached an agreement with subcontractor LSG Sky Chefs. LSG Sky Chefs and catering staff unions were still in a major dispute over pay and working conditions, due to the company's attempts to move its workers out of the aviation workers' collective agreement. With the help of a national conciliator, the two parties reached an agreement on the eve of yet another Finnair strike.
English: http://atwonline.com/labor/finnair-still-faces-strike-threat ...
http://www.jokinen.kaapeli.fi/index.php/en/trade-union-news-from-finland ...
http://yle.fi/uutiset/airline_caterers_reach_agreement_to_avoid_strike ...
Trade unions have put forward a proposal for a minimum wage of €1500 per month for all full-time workers. While many sectors already have agreed wages that exceed this amount, the unions are worried about workers in sectors where no collective agreements exist. Occupations that are worse paid at the moment include hairdressers, masseurs and cosmetic studio workers.
English: http://austriantimes.at/news/Business/2013-11-18/50107/Unions_want ...
Lufthansa has said it is considering closing its Rathcoole plant and has invited trade unions for talks. The plant, which specialises in overhauling jet engines, employs about 400 workers. Trade unions will start talks with Lufthansa but fear that the decision has already been made and the plant will be shut down by the end of the year.
English: http://www.newstalk.ie/reader ...
Street-sweepers and the Madrid municipality have reached a deal ending an eleven day strike and averting 1,135 dismissals and a 40% wage cut. Street sweepers and gardeners started an indefinite strike over proposed lay-offs and wage cuts. Some 6,000 outdoor maintenance workers joined the walk-out after private companies, contracted by Madrid's city hall, proposed slashing salaries by up to 40% and laying off 1,134 people. Among the companies with garbage, street cleaning and park maintenance contracts in Madrid are units of infrastructure firms and builders including Ferrovial, Sacyr, OHL and FCC. On 17 November, a deal was reached that guarantees there will be neither job losses nor wage cuts.
English: http://www.expatica.com/es/news/spanish-news/madrid-street-sweepers-agree ...
http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/breaking-news/world/madrid-garbage-collectors-strike ...
Social workers held a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Human Resources on 12 November, the Day of Social Work. The leader of the Independent Health Care Trade Union said that while wage talks in the health-care sector had been successful, employees in the social services faced deteriorating conditions. A workers' committee in the social sector (SZADB) announced to take action after their demands presented at the demonstration went unnoticed. Their most important demand is that newly raised pay grades set for the health-care sector should be extended to include social work, too, but the government has not responded. Workers in the sector demand a wage rise of 20% on average.
English: http://www.politics.hu/20131115/social-sector-workers ...
http://www.politics.hu/20131113/unions-demonstrate-for-recognition ...