In the automotive sector the employment outlook has improved. The general feeling is that the decision to conclude long-term labour deals with the motor industry has served companies and workers alike. Car executives and union leaders agree that the shift towards wage moderation and flexible working practices that was enshrined in a series of collective deals in the early years of the crisis was instrumental in luring more production. Ford, for example, struck a five-year deal with its unions in 2009.
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600 pilots of budget airline Norwegian Air Shuttle called off a planned strike after four days of government mediation yielded a deal that secures their current work agreements. The trade union Parat stated that as part of the deal, pilots will have joint collective agreements in Scandinavian countries, which still form the core of the firm's operations, and pilots elsewhere will get equal career opportunities.
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According to the general secretary of the OECD the country must be more flexible than others if it wants to remain successful. This means education, innovation, competitiveness, regulation, decentralisation, labour market flexibility, flexible market of goods and services, taxation, healthcare system, R&D, etc.
English: http://balticbusinessnews.com/article/2013/11/4/head-of-oecd-estonia ...
A collective agreement was closed for all central government employees in line with the national wage agreement that was validated last month. The collective agreement includes a €20 pay hike and a 0.73% increase of bonuses from 1 August 2014 and a 0.30% from 1 August 2015. Those increases will run until 31 January 2016. In a further negotiation round, scheduled for mid-2015, the partners will bargain about wage increases for the second half of the collective agreements period that will run from 1 February 2016 to 31 January 2017.
English: http://www.pardia.fi/in_english ...
The trade union confederation TUC has welcomed the increase in the living wage rates but warns that too few large employers have committed to paying it. The living wage is a voluntary rate of pay designed to help low-paid workers to afford a basic standard of living. It is set in London by the Greater London Authority and for the rest of the UK by the Living Wage Foundation. The rate is 7.65 an hour, and 8.80 an hour in London. The adult minimum wage rate is 6.31 an hour. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the biggest companies increased their cash reserves by 83bn between 2007 and 2012. But some employers are refusing to use these rising cash reserves to offer decent wage rises that would increase demand in the economy. Instead, workers are suffering the longest wage squeeze in over a century and in-work poverty continues to grow.
English: http://www.tuc.org.uk/social-issues/poverty-social-exclusion/more-large-employers ...
Focus on the Living Wage Foundation: http://www.livingwage.org.uk/
The two major trade union confederations do not believe that the current situation in the country necessitates a national strike. The unions have decided not to rush into nationwide protests unless they have a firm grassroots backing and have been prepared by the common people. A 180 degree turn may take place over the next weeks, with expected tensions in the spheres of coal mining, thermal power generation, and the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) company.
English: http://www.novinite.com/articles ...
In a protest against the employer associations' plans to withdraw from the national collective agreement in the tourism industry, which includes restaurants and catering, thousands of restaurant and catering workers joined demonstrations in Rome and Milan and then held a picket line in front of the employer associations' headquarters. The three trade union confederations denounced the plan as irresponsible and dangerous for workers and the entire sector.
English: http://cms.iuf.org ...
The 140,000 employees of the federal government have a new pay structure. After several years of negotiations, trade union Ver.di reached an agreement with the federal government. The agreement revises the job classification and modernises the pay structure. In the new structure, skilled technicians, IT workers, clerical and administrative staff and forest workers have been upgraded. Ver.di continues to be in negotiations over the pay structure of local government employees and both local and federal collective agreements will need to be negotiated in the beginning of next year.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/9867
German: http://www.verdi.de/themen/nachrichten ...
According to Statistics Finland the highest earning 10% receive about five and a half times the income of the lowest paid. Furthermore, the gap between the top earners and those worst-off continues to grow, despite many claims to the contrary. Nevertheless, by global standards, Finland can still boast that it is the most egalitarian nation in terms of the wage gap between rich and poor.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/finnish_income_gap_creeps_wider ...
Trade unions in the health sector are taking the ministry to court over its decision to close the sector's collective agreement with the unrepresentative employees' organisation Forum of Nurses and Medical Professionals. The unions, who did not accept the conditions of the new collective agreement, argue that the right to collective bargaining has been violated by the ministry and have mounted a legal challenge.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/9868
Spanish: http://www.fspugt.es/Admitido_a_trmite_el_recurso_interpuesto_contra ...