Teachers marched in downtown Lisbon to protest proposed spending cuts they say will slash €1 billion from the education budget. Trade unions have indications that the government plans to privatise many public schools and cut around 50,000 sector jobs. The plans revealed in a recent document from the International Monetary Fund would `mean the end of a free and inclusive public school system'.
English: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/2434
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Hospitals, health centres and the ambulance service will operate with skeleton staff on 31 January due to a 24-hour strike called by workers in the health service. It is also a protest against a government plan to pay doctors 20 per cent less than what they were owed by the social security funds. Unions said they want to draw attention to the underfunding and plight of the national healthcare system and the National Organization for Healthcare Provision (EOPYY).
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http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi ...
Global union federations the ITF (International Transport Workers' Federation) and Uni Global Union have warned the trade union confederation Hak-Is that it is in danger of being used by DHL Turkey as a pawn in a company attempt to prevent workers in the company having a union voice. The two global unions issued the warning following a serious discussion of the grave concerns of the international trade union movement expressed at the meeting of the Council of Global Unions following reports of company attempts to forcibly recruit members into Tasima-Is, a new union set up by Hak-Is.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/press-area/index.cfm/pressdetail/8413
The services-sector trade union Ver.di began work stoppages to back up its demand for a major pay raise for the security staff employed by contractors who are responsible for checking passengers and their carry-on luggage prior to flights. Ver.di is demanding a pay increase of 30%. According to the union, as much as 80% of the security personnel work for a wage of €8.23 per hour. The employers argue that they have already rejected a 9% raise for other airport workers and that complying with the demand would cost jobs.
English: http://www.dw.de/security-personnel-strikes-at-german-airports/a-16549153
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/25/uk-germany-airportstrikes ...
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is organising a rally on 9 February, calling on the EU to do a deal on Irish bank debt. Workers, particularly public sector workers, have suffered a great deal due to the financial and economic crisis. Last year the EU promised to do a deal on bank debt. But nothing has been done. Ireland is currently holding the presidency of the EU and that's why trade unions and others are using the opportunity to put pressure on EU institutions and member states.
English: http://www.world-psi.org/en/call-day-action-ireland-9-february-2013
http://www.world-psi.org/sites/default/files/attachment/news/generalleaflet.pdf
http://www.impact.ie/13/01/25/Three-minutes---33-seconds-Vs-Ireland-s-bank-debt ...
According to unpublished data obtained by The Irish Times from the EU statistics agency Eurostat more Irish adults are outside the workforce owing to disability and illness than in any other of the euro area's 17 countries. Since the recession began there has been a marked increase in this category, but, the figures show that even during the boom the proportion of adults under 60 not in the labour force owing to disability and illness was well above the European average .
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0125/1224329252369.html
The Irish Medical Organisation has warned the Government that unless it agrees to talks on recently introduced pay cuts of 30% for new hospital consultants it will have to seek redress "through alternative avenues". Meanwhile, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) said staffing levels were at critical and unsafe levels in hospitals due to repeated cuts. The ability of nurses to provide safe care to patients will be further hit this year with the net loss of another 2,500 posts. One politician claimed that graduate nurses asked to accept 20% less than the normal starting salary would be better off emigrating.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0102 ...
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/loss-of-2500-nursing-jobs-unsafe-for-patients ...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2013/0125/1224329253332.html
On 23 January, several thousand European workers from the building, transport and agri-food industries expressed their outrage at the economic exploitation and social dumping affecting numerous foreign workers at the workplace. The protest was organised by ETUC affiliates in the construction (EFBWW), transport (ETF) and agricultural sectors (EFFAT). The participants urged the European policymakers to recognise the problems and take decisive action to tackle these. To ensure better monitoring of the European labour market, the trade unions are calling for a social Europol, a European social identity card, European liability for clients and principal contractors, clear definitions that distinguish between genuine self-employed people and employees, and stringent national controls with clear aims.
English: http://www.efbww.org/default.asp?Index=861&Language=EN http://www.europolitics.info/social/demonstration-in-brussels ...
Contractors who get construction jobs from projects with the state as `client' will have to employ a certain number of unemployed building workers under government proposals on `social clauses' to be announced soon. With the inclusion of a social clause for public contracts the tenderer can make provisions in the procurement process, for instance to address youth unemployment and long-term unemployment. The EU procurement regime and legislation is tight and prescriptive but it gives scope for contracts to have terms and conditions about social clauses.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0124/breaking3.html
According to statistics from the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions SAK the number of redundancies grew by almost 50 per cent last year. The number of people who lost their jobs in 2012 was 15,800, whereas the same figure in 2011 was 10,600. Last year's figure is the second highest recorded since 2006, the year in which SAK began collecting this information. Major redundancies occurred in the technology sector, followed by considerable job losses among the forest industries. The mobile phone company Nokia cut 3,700 jobs, Nokia Siemens Networks 624, the IT services and consulting company Tieto 545 and the national flag carrier airline Finnair 480. The bankruptcy of FNsteel left 450 people unemployed.
English: http://www.artto.kaapeli.fi/unions/T2013/q05