Services and communications union SEKO has signed a collective agreement with employers organisation Almega, covering roughly 20.000 workers in the postal and aviation sector. The new collective agreement includes a 2.6% pay raise and will apply from 1 June 2012 to the 31 May 2013. The collective agreement furthermore introduces a minimum wage of 15,984 SEK.
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500 employees at 20 `Tsokkos Hotels' in Famagusta took part in a 24-hour warning strike to protest violations of their collective agreements, including wage cuts. According to the trade union PEO the employee strike, including Cypriots and Europeans, was because employers at Tsokkos have suddenly made cuts in wages, along with other benefits such as provident fund, national holidays and Sundays.
English:http://www.cyprus-mail.com/tsokkos/tsokkos-hotel-workers-strike ...
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Hotel and food catering employees staged a 24-hour strike on 27 June while some 200 held a rally outside the Ministry of Labour in central Athens to demand the signing of a new collective agreement as the current one for hotel professionals expires on July 18. Further industrial action with protests outside major hotels is planned in July.
English: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_27/06/2012_449377
Forced retirement at 62
June, 2012
The cabinet will introduce compulsory retirement at age 62 in all spheres of public service, government spokesman Andr s Gir¢-Sz sz told reporters alongside education state secretary R¢zsa Hoffmann. Hoffmann had earlier said there would be no general pensioning off of teachers. Health state secretary Mikl¢s Sz¢cska earlier declared it inconceivable that all medical personnel over the age of 62 be forced to retire. Gir¢-Sz sz said forced retirement will occur in one step in some areas and in two stages in others, adding that 10,000 people will be affected. There are 30,000 people age 62 or older employed in the public sector. Inter-ministerial negotiations are under way to ensure that the decision does not cause problems in health care or education.
900 dismissals at Nokia plant
June, 2012
Finnish handset maker Nokia will lay off 900 people at its base in the Hungarian city of Komarom, chairman of the plant's labour council Zoltan Laszlo told Hungarian press agency.This is the second phase of a previously announced 2,300 layoff at the Hungarian plant.Nokia already dismissed 1,200 people on March 29, of which 854 were Hungarian and 343 Slovaks commuters. Nokia announced in February transferring production from three of its plants, Komarom, Reynosa in Mexico and Salo in Finland, to Asia, laying off about 4,000 workers in the process.
Source: Mat Komiljovics
The watchdog Finnwatch published an analysis based on the data put together by their colleagues from Swedwatch. The data concern working conditions at four Chinese suppliers for Finnish companies in Guangdong. The new data illustrate how working conditions have changed in recent years as Swedwatch made a similar study in 2005. The analysis summarises significant positive changes as almost all Chinese workers have now a written employment agreement, they are paid the mandatory minimum wage or more, in most cases overtime work is compensated properly and the total working hours of most workers has decreased (although working hours still exceed the maximum norms set down by Chinese legislation). However, many serious and systematic deficiencies in working conditions prevail.
English: http://www.artto.kaapeli.fi/unions/T2012/p25http://www.artto.kaapeli.fi/unions/T2012/p18
Workers at waste disposal and peat briquette production company Bord na M¢na staged a one-day strike over a wage dispute in early June. Trade unions Unite, Siptu and TEEU stated that the company failed to implement a court ruling granting that the unions had a legitimate claim to a 3.5% wage increase. Bord na M¢na claims it has offered to execute the increase through a bonus but that the union declined this proposal. After management restated its position that it was not possible to improve the proposal reached on 4 April a new strike started 27 June with 1,500 workers back on the picket lines in less than a month.
English: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0606/1224317370405.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0627/bord-na-mona-workers-mount-strike-action.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/0627/breaking23.html
Trade union confederations CCOO and UGT announced another large demonstration against cuts in the public sector with a fourth day of action on 28 June. The unions have vouched they will not cease actions until the government changes its austerity politics.
Spanish: http://www.fspugt.es/uploads/documentos/documentos_manifiesto_jornadas_de ...
The management of Merck Serono said it had finished the consultation process with trade unions over the closing of the Geneva plant. It was expected to come with a final decision by the 19 June. Trade union Unia announced a day of action on 20 June that was followed by a strike. During a mass meeting after four days of strike it became clear for the 400 involved workers that the management was forced to return to the negotiation table to negotiate a social plan.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/unia-fights-to-save-jobs-at-merck-serono ...
French: http://www.unia.ch/news_aktion_fr.9.0.html ...
German: http://www.unia.ch/news_aktionen.9.0.html ...
Postal workers protest against layoffs and worse working conditions
June13, 2012
Postal workers unions Syndicom organised a protest at the PostLogistics sorting centre in Daillens after an announcement that it is laying off 250 workers despite running a profit last years. Syndicom claims PostLogistics intends to fire the workers in order to re-hire them as self-employed contractors. The protest is aggravated by PostLogistics further plans to increase working hours, decrease holidays, lower starting salaries, and worsen social benefits in the next collective agreement.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/uni.nsf/pages/homepageEn ...
Although a gender salary gap persists in Slovakia at about 20%, the gap has decreased by one-fifth in the past five years, states a document drafted by the Labour Ministry and approved by the government on 27 June. The report states that women make up 80% of the people employed in health care, social work and education. However, when it comes to the private sector, where salaries are higher, women represent only 42% of all employees.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/46812/10/labour_ministry_says_gender ...
A pay deal was reached in the private banking sector, with 220,000 workers, after four rounds of negotiations between the employers and the trade union Ver.di. Wages will increase in two steps, from 1 July 2012 with 2.9% and from 1 July 2013 with 2.5%. For July 2012 an extra payment of €350 is settled. Trainees' pay will improve with a proportionately larger increase with pay going up by €50 as of 01.07.2012, and by a further €45 as of 01.07.2013. As a result, starting in 2013, trainees in their third year of training will be paid €1000.The collective agreement has been concluded for 26 months (till 30 April 2014).
English: http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/06/06/german-union-verdi-agrees ...
http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/uni.nsf/pages/sec_financeEn ...
German:https://www.verdi.de/presse/pressemitteilungen ...
For the first time in 6 years the French minimum wage (SMIC) will increase. The socialist government has announced a (limited) rise to 0.6% above the inflation rate. The rise amounts 2% to €9.40 an hour from 1 July 2012, of which 1.4% is accounted for by inflation. It is the first time the minimum wage, which affects one in six workers, will be raised above inflation since a 0.3% boost in 2006, before former president Sarkozy froze it in real terms.
English: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0 ...
French:http://www.liberation.fr/economie/2012/06/26/le-smic-devrait-augmenter ...