The plan of the workers of VIOME (Industrial Mineral), a factory in northern Greece, to take over the factory and to manage it themselves has generated waves of encouragement and support throughout the world. Following a period of relative inactivity and industrial disputes, the VIOME trade union called out in April 2012 to associations and other trade unions of Thessaloniki for aid. The correspondence revived the workers' morale and gave a new prospect to their fight, culminating in the creation of a `Solidarity Initiative' in support of workers' self-management in VIOME, in July 2012.
English: http://borderlinereports.net/2013/05/23/viome-a-workers-experiment ...
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There have been significant breakthroughs in the bid to secure reductions in the government's pay bill by agreement with a number of trade unions after the government revised key elements of its original proposals regarding pay cuts and freezing increments for higher earners. This move was welcomed by a number of unions including the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants, which had rejected the Croke Park II proposals last month. Trade unions SIPTU and INMO have made known they will be recommending the deal to their members, whereas the ASTI and TUI have refused to re-ballot members and remain against. Separately, a deal in principle was reached with organisations representing garda¡ who had walked out of the process before the Croke Park II proposals were finalised. This agreement in principle is understood to be aimed at generating savings of between ?16 million and ?17 million this year. The new proposals shift more of the burden of pay and pension cuts to the highest earning civil servants and explicitly includes pay of politicians.
English: http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0523/452135-haddington-road-agreement/
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/significant-progress-in-talks-between-government-and ...
From 2014 onwards, 25,000 workers in the film industry will have a collective agreement. According to the agreement, crew will receive a share of the exploitation revenues that will increase from 7.5 % in 2014 to 15% in 2016. The agreement will enter into force in early 2014 and will run until the end of 2016.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org ...
Trade unions LCGB and OGBL and Cargolux have agreed to extend the current collective agreement to the end of 2014 as negotiations for a new agreement proceed slowly. Trade unions are asking for less cuts and fewer layoffs. Amongst other things, the unions proposed that employees would temporarily forego their thirteenth month salary, to receive the pay only when the company will be in a position to afford it. Cargolux management, however, is holding on to larger cuts in order to reach a $49 million profit in 2014.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/unions-and-cargolux-at-odds-over-collective ...
About 100,000 people joined a protest march in Rome, organised by the metal workers' union. Protesters demanded the government to start investing in job creation. Union leaders said that the new government needed to shift away from the austerity agenda pursued by former prime minister Mario Monti, who introduced a range of spending cuts, tax rises and pension reform to shore up strained public finances.
English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22581759
The leaders of the three trade union confederations met to consider joint strike actions in the autumn in protest over government plans to increase flexible working hours and cut overtime payments. They also want a substantial increase of the minimum wage. The deputy prime minister told Polish Radio that trade unionists should call off planned strikes as the country fights to maintain economic growth. He called for dialogue between unions and government, as well as between unions and employers, after the Solidarity trade union, threatened a 'general strike' over pay and working conditions after talks with the government ended in stalemate in April. The plan to coordinate protest action is historic.
English: http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/134897,Deputy-PM ...
http://www.thenews.pl/1/12/Artykul/136221,Polands-trade-unions-to-coordinate ...
Nine trade unions representing educational staff have threatened to derail centralised tests throughout the country by announcing a strike on two exam days in June. Unions have stated the teachers have nothing left to lose and will strike one more time before the summer holiday months, when they will be left without leverage due to schools being closed. The strike hits the examination processes in secondary schools, including those pupils taking their final year exams.
English: http://theportugalnews.com/news/teachers-call-strike-for-exam-day/28457
Veolia bus drivers in the town of Vantaa are entering their second week of industrial action. Over 400 bus drivers have joined the walk-out, in which they protest against a new shift system. In the new shift system, drivers could be made to work three weekends out of four, or sixteen days with only a single rest day. Bus services in Vantaa are paralysed as a result of the action.
English: http://yle.fi/uutiset/vantaa_bus_drivers_strike_continues ...
http://yle.fi/uutiset/bus_strike_hits_vantaa_commuters ...
Pilots and cabin crew of state owned Croatia Airlines went on strike on 14 May in a conflict over new contracts. The company is facing large financial difficulties and have announced it will be entering a process of restructuring, which will include layoffs and pay cuts. Due to these circumstances, Croatia Airlines was unwilling to prolong old contracts as they were. Pilots and cabin crew reacted by going on a strike, grounding at least one third of all Croatia Airlines' flights. On 20 May the pilots reached a deal with Croatia Airlines and seized their industrial action, while cabin crew continued to be on strike. Earlier this month Croatia Airlines had to cancel 10 international and 3 domestic flights because 25 per cent of its cabin crew staff was on sick leave. The company announced an investigation stating that there was reason to believe that this was a kind of protest by the cabin crew unions as a result of their disagreement with the proposed collective agreement. The management no longer guaranteed 15 days' annual leave and intended to reduce the number of days off with a view to increasing productivity. Three of the six unions active in the company had signed the new collective agreement while the remaining three had not.
English:http://www.enca.com/world-money/croatia-airlines-pilots-end-seven-day-strike
http://dalje.com/en-croatia/croatia-airlines-ceo-says-25-of-cabin-crew-staff-on-sick-leave ...
In the case Della Rocca v Poste Italiane SpA, the European Court of Justice ruled that temporary agency workers are not protected by the Fixed Term Work Directive. Della Rocca, an agency worker who was placed at the Italian Postal Service, took his employer to court claiming that the series of fixed term contracts he had received entitled him to an open ended contract. The ECJ rules that agency workers do not fall within the scope of the directive and neither the agency, nor the end-user is bound by it.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/Europe ...