Dozens of temporary agency workers went on strike, protesting against low wages and unequal working conditions. The Polish workers demonstrated against the supermarket chain Albert Heijn and the staffing company which hired them, Tempo Team. The trade union confederation FNV said that 30 agency workers were involved in the demonstrations. According to the union the foreign workers were poorly paid, hounded and harassed.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News ...
Unions against Ryanair on domestic flights
January 9, 2o12
In a joint trade union movement statement it is said that Ryanair should not be allowed to start up domestic routes in Norway as long as wages and working conditions are so bad. The unions see Ryanair as an anti-union company that refuses their employees to organise and get in collective agreements. Authorities should not let such a company to enter the domestic market.
English: http://www.tnp.no/norway/economy/3475-trade-unions-say-no-to-ryanair ...
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Employees at Bankia, Banco de Valencia and NovaGalicia Banco, three banks that were recently bailed out, have announced they are organising strikes against the large scale layoffs in the sector. For the year 2013 alone, some 20,000 redundancies are expected, amounting to about 10% of the total personnel. The bankers, who have until now kept silent in the face of their unpopularity, have now started to join the strikes and protests in the public sector.
English: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business ...
Trade union Unia has won compensation for 15 workers at Domino's pizzas, who worked in home delivery. Whilst a national collective agreement applied, the workers received lower wages, no overtime pay, worked excessive hours, suffered safety violations and were charged for uniform and transport upkeep. The case was settled out-of-court and compensation will be paid to the workers. Unio has expressed hopes of reaching a national agreement on upholding working conditions with Domino's.
English: http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/2209
The battle over the future of ILVA, owned by the Riva Group, has been one of the biggest challenges faced by the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti and a symbol of the struggle to preserve heavy manufacturing (see the November Newsletter). Union workers, who earlier stopped two of the plant's steel works and a blast furnace to put pressure on management to ensure the future of the site, said they ended their strike, after the government promised the salaries would continue to be paid. This was decided after an emergency meeting between government, unions and company management to save the ILVA factory from closure.
English: http://www.brecorder.com/agriculture-a-allied/183/1145876/
A joint report from the Resolution Foundation and IPPR, Beyond the Bottom Line, presents the first full economic analysis of the living wage in the UK, including: modelling its potential impact on labour demand and considering the potential costs of living wages for employers; analysing which workers and families benefit most from the living wage; and quantifying the fiscal savings to government of wider living wage coverage. The TUC welcomed the report and stated that the more companies who can be persuaded to pay the living wage the better. The trade union said that the report makes a compelling argument for both securing stronger wage growth and retaining important in-work benefits for low and middle-income earners as the best means of boosting living standards.
English: http://www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications/?category=16
http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-21833-f0.cfm
In the report Global Employment Trends for Women 2012 the ILO examines the conditions of women's engagement in the labour market, by estimating and analysing five key gaps, or gender differentials, between women and men which disadvantage women: in unemployment, in employment, in labour force participation, in vulnerability, and in sectoral and occupational segregation. Gender gaps in the economic indicators of unemployment and employment trended towards convergence in the period 2002 to 2007, but with reversals coinciding with the period of the crisis from 2008 to 2012 in many regions. The gap in labour force participation, examined over a longer period of the last two decades, shows convergence in the 1990s, but little to no convergence in the 2000s, with increasing gaps in some regions like South Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. Demographic and behavioural change appears to have added to the impact of the crisis, to reverse convergence in regions harder hit by the crisis, such as the advanced economies and Central and Eastern Europe. The final chapter discusses the need to expand social protection measures to reduce women's vulnerability, the need to invest in their skills and education, and policies to promote access to employment across the spectrum of sectors and occupations.
English: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public ...
The GPA-DJP trade union agreed a pay deal for the private energy sector that will provide increases on basic pay of between 2.9% and 3.2% with the higher increases for the lower paid. Apprentice will receive a 3.2% increase of their remuneration. Also agreed is to examine the coverage of the sector agreement in relation to companies in the sector covered by other agreements, subsidiaries of companies covered by the agreement, cooperation with employers who are not covered by the agreement and other employers not part of the energy industry. The agreement takes effect on 1 February 2013.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/9225
German: http://www.gpa-djp.at/servlet/ContentServer ...
The three main trade unions in the public sector have called a national demonstration of federal civil servants for Thursday 7 February 2013. The unions argue that civil service minister Bogaert is talking about abolishing the system of training and examinations that are the basis of the current system of career progression without being clear about what he wants in its place.
English: http://www.epsu.org/r/164
French: http://csc-services-publics.csc-en-ligne.be/Nouvelles/Sectorielles ...
http://www.cgsp-ministeres.be/etat-federal/comite-b/204-communiqu ...
In a data set Eurostat describes the non-monetary components of the social inclusion headline indicator `people at risk of poverty or social exclusion' set out in the Europe 2020 Strategy: people living in households with very low work intensity and people severely materially deprived. Work intensity is the ratio between the number of months that household members of working age (person aged 18-59 years, with the exclusion of students in the age group between 18 and 24 years) worked during the income reference year and the total number of months that could theoretically have been worked by the same household members. The material deprivation rate is defined as the proportion of persons who cannot afford to pay for at least three out of the nine specified items, while those who are unable to afford four or more items are considered to be severely materially deprived. The proportion of people that were materially deprived was highest in Bulgaria (55.6 %), Romania (49.2 %) and Latvia (46.1 %), with more than half of the materially-deprived persons in each of these countries experiencing severe material deprivation. Similarly, in Hungary, Lithuania and Poland (which reported the next three highest material deprivation rates), more than half of those considered as materially deprived experienced severe material deprivation. Less than one in ten people in Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Nordic and Switzerland were materially deprived.
English: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained ...
Workers at railways operator Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate (CFR) started a spontaneous strike to demand payment of delayed wages. The strike lasted for about two hours and halted approximately 90 trains, causing major delays.
English: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-16/romania-railway-workers-start ...