Air traffic controllers went on strike against the EU initiative for a centralised European airspace, which they fear will lead to job cuts and worsened working conditions. The strike forced 10 per cent of the domestic flights, as well as some flights to the Iberian peninsula to be cancelled.
English: http://www.dw.de/french-air-controllers-strike-over-eu-aviation-initiative ...
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The Gdansk shipyard, where that activism of trade union Solidarnosz once started, is at the brink of closure. Since May, the shipyard has only been able to pay wages in gradual instalments. Former president Lech Walesa was called in to mediate the bailout talks that could save the shipyard.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/149488,Walesa-sees-little-chance-of-saving ...
Employees of financial sector set up the Union of Estonian Financial Sector's Employees (EFL) as an independent and voluntary trade union. EFL that was founded in cooperation with two of Sweden's largest trade unions of the financial sector, Finansforbundet and Akademikerforbundet, aims to protect and represent the rights and interests of employees in the financial sector in employment relationships.
English: http://www.bbn.ee/article/2013/10/9/estonian-financial-sector-employees-set-up ...
Following a Labour Court review of the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has presented a reform of the infrastructure for labour conflict resolution. The number of JLCs will be halved, leaving seven committees of amended scope. The reform further includes a new website to replace the five current sites of the workplace related bodies, a single e-form for over 130 types of complaints and a publicly available database of decisions and determinations by the labour court. Meanwhile a SIPTU spokesperson said that Government moves to give effect to a promise in the joint Programme for Government to enact legalisation on collective bargaining would mark a `turning point for workers'. However, SIPTU expects massive resistance from the side of the 'establishment'.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/Ireland ...
http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2013/featurednews/fullstory_17648_en.html
Focus on Joint Labour Committees: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/country/ireland ...
The National Association of Hungarian Trade Unions commissioned a survey among small and medium sized enterprises, to find out what minimum wage level the company managers expect and deem acceptable. The absolute majority of company managers (88%) deem that the amount of the minimum wage will grow, moreover, 60% of them reckon that it will grow over 100 thousand forints per month. This would mean a real wage growth among those earning the least, to an extent beyond the estimated next yearly inflation rate.
English: http://www.policyagenda.hu/en/nyitolap/minimum-wage-what-company-managers ...
The Hull city council intends to fire its entire workforce of 6,700 employees in order to re-employ them under worse working conditions and lower pay. Trade unions are preparing large scale actions against the municipality.
English: http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/unite-to-oppose-plans-by-hull-council-to-sack ...
The European Commission has refused to turn hairdressers' bipartite agreement on health and safety standards into law. Trade unions and the hairdresser sector reached an agreement on legal occupational health and safety standards, which is sent to the European commission to be declared binding. Mockingly referring to the agreement as a `ban on high heels' the European Commission President refused and called the agreement a `misfit as far as European hairdressers are concerned'. In a letter to the Financial Times, UNI Europa Hair and Beauty has reacted outraged at the slight, pointing out that the agreement refers to non-slip shoes, not heels, and that the recommendations on avoiding risks of chemicals is a serious issue as hairdressers are the profession with the highest level of skin disease.
English: http://www.etuc.org/a/11608
http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/meeting-commissioner-andor-refit-23-october-2013-0
The statistical office has updated a long term series of data. The overview provides figures related to the economically active population and the development of monthly earnings of employees. According to additional administrative data of the National Labour Office (http://www.munka.hu/), the number of registered jobseekers was 492 thousand at the end of August 2013, 6.6% less than in July 2012.
English: http://www.ksh.hu/stadat_long
Over 120,000 people have signed a petition for a monthly minimum wage of CHF 2,500 (?2000). At its passing of the threshold of 100,000 signatures, the petition became subject to a popular vote. The minimum wage petition is an initiative of the same platform that lobbied for a vote on capping executive pay at the maximum of twelve times the lowest paid salary member, which will be voted on 24 November.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/Switzerland ...
Focus on running Swiss people's initiatives, an article by Hans Baumann:
http://www.clr-news.org/CLR-News/CLR News 3-2013.pdf
Trade unions have picked up the plight of Thai immigrants picking wild berries in Finland. The workers are brought to Finland on tourist visa, where they pick wild berries without a contract and sell their gains to a single company. The current arrangement is possible, because contrary to cultivated berries, wild berries in the forests can be picked by any one and are not included in the rural industries collective agreement. Recently, a group of 50 berry pickers filed criminal charges against the company that brought them to Finland to work, but lost the case in court. Unions are calling on the government to close the loophole and find a way of bringing the Thai wild berry pickers under the collective agreement.
English: http://www.jokinen.kaapeli.fi/index ...