The negotiation proposal for the renewal of the logistics, freight and shipping collective agreement has been approved by the unitary platform of FILT CGIL, CISL and FIT UiILtrasporti. The agreed text will be submitted in the next few weeks to employees. It covers 700,000 workers. The agreement introduces rules for the entire production chain and tool to fight against insecurity. Apprenticeship is defined as the privileged form of entry in the industry.The CGIL, Cisl and Uil's federations working together in the unitary platform also renewed the national collective agreement which covers about 10,000 workers in the harbour sector. Health and safety standards are improved and upgraded, and vocational training will be improved by the introduction of standards and certificates. In the meantime the trade unions continue their fight for the renewal of the agreement in the local public transport, a deal that should provide the tools needed to address the serious crisis in the sector.
Italian: http://www.cgil.it/dettagliodocumento.aspx?ID=19301
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Nokia has announced to slash 10,000 jobs, or 19 per cent of its workforce by the end of 2013 in what is called an emergency overhaul. The restructuring includes closing research centres and a factory in Germany, Canada and Finland, and the departures of three senior executives. 3,700 of the planned 10,000 jobs to be cut will take place in Finland. The handset factory in Salo to be closed is Nokia's largest in the country, and about 850 employees will be affected there by the reductions.
English: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/technology/nokia-to-cut-10000-jobs ...http://www.artto.kaapeli.fi/unions/T2012/p18http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ...
On Children's Day, Solidarnosc trade union picketed Silesia City Center Mall in Katowice to protest against mass layoffs at Tesco's Poland. Children of the employees delivered cards to the company, asking its management not to dismiss their parents. Tesco's has started dismissing the first of a total of 1000 employees that will be made redundant. Meanwhile, the collective labour dispute continues, in which Solidarnosc is calling for limitations on the number of redundancies and a social plan for those who are laid off. Solidarnosc also accused Tesco's of offering far worse working conditions in Central Eastern Europe than to its employees in Western Europe.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/uni.nsf/pages/homepageEn ...
Air traffic control strike called off
June 27, 2012
A strike announced by Air traffic control workers on Friday and Saturday, 29-30 June, has been called off. Pilots at TAP are planning to take their own industrial action in July and August in a dispute over pay. They also want to be consulted over the airline's impending privatisation which could lead to the sale of TAP to another major airline such as British Airways' owner IAG.
English: http://www.abtn.co.uk/news/2817527-portugal-air-traffic-control-strike-called
Bonus amnesty for state workers
June, 2012
The Chamber of Deputies has passed an amnesty allowing public servants to keep the bonuses they were paid over 2008-2010. Members of the Chamber approved the draft by which the salaries of public sector staff are established by contracts or collective agreements, and awards responsibility for them to local or county councils. The measure had broad cross-party support. The draft law on the amnesty was submitted to the Parliament in March on behalf of the 300,000 civil servants forced to return received bonuses.
English: http://www.thediplomat.ro/articol.php?id=3448
A proposal to increase the retirement agewill be applied slower than previously planned. This was decided during the third and final reading in the Latvian parliament (the Saeima). The current retirement age of 62 will be raised by three months every year, starting from 2014, until it will reach 65 in 2025. The minimum insurance record will also be raised to 15 years and to 20 years starting from 2025.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/legislation/?doc=58720
The council of ministers has banned all bonuses for employees of the state administration. Instead, a yearly evaluation system will be instated to increase wages for well performing civil servants. The ban comes after the direction of a national agency was forced to resign in a bonus related scandal and Prime Minister Borisov ordered all ministers and other high level officials to return all bonuses they received over the last years.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140242
Care sector trade union Vida has called for the improvement of pay and working conditions in the care sector to address the growing labour shortages. Vida's call for more investment in the care sector comes as a response to a request of employers to ease immigration rules for nurses. Vida states the main problems are low wage, long hours and ever changing shift patterns.
German: http://www.vida.at/servlet/ContentServer ...
The public and commercial services union (PCS) has called on public sector workers to refuse to work any voluntary overtime until the end of July. Balloted union members voted in favour of the overtime ban as a method of industrial action to prevent employers from catching up after the sector-wide strike in May. The unions are protesting job losses, salary cuts and pension cuts in the public sector. PCS ann0unced its main actions will be geared towards a large coalition action in autumn; until then, it will continue will smaller scale walk outs and strikes.
English: http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/news_and_events/pcs_comment ...
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Jersey bus drivers receive short-term 3% pay increase
June7, 2012
Unions and Connex have agreed to a 3% pay rise as well as the recruitment of four more bus drivers. A strike by bus drivers in Jersey was called off when talks between union representatives and Connex management took a turn for the better. Strikes that remained scheduled for the 14th and 25th of June were also cancelled when a pay deal was reached on 7 June. Union officials have started lobbying Transport and Technical Services (TTS) that the pay increase has to be maintained by any company taking over the exploitation of the bus service after the Connex contract with the municipality expires at the end of the year. The TTS has reacted that conditions were already set in the tender that was published earlier and pay is likely to return to previous levels if another company is rewarded the new contract.
English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-18350489
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-18394613
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-18413620
The cooperative of Maritime Pilots has been guaranteed work for the next 15 years after an agreement was reached with Transport Malta. Besides providing a service to the industry, the cooperative has also invested in the training of its pilots and their seamen. The cooperative is obliged to take part in national emergency services and in regular drills that are organised by Transport Malta.
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Negotiations between the trade unions and the employers' organisation LANV have led to a renewal of the collective agreement for the carpenters and roof workers. The old agreement expired at the end of 2011. The negotiators have applied for a general binding agreement in order to avoid distortion of competition.
German: http://www.wirtschaftskammer.li/news/2012/06/12/news/zimmermeister ...
Services union Ver.di organised a protest on 11 June against extreme understaffing of the finance department of the Berlin region. Ver.di has stated that tax returns go uninspected due to the understaffing to an extent that put the financial stability of the region at stake. The protest comes on the eve of the budget vote in the regional parliament.
German: http://www.verdi.de/themen/nachrichten ...