Austrian Airlines pilots and stewardesses that have decided to take voluntary redundancy rather than switch to contracts similar to those as in effect at Tyrolean Airways will receive a golden handshake of €430,000. In total 341 staff members have decided to go. Employees that stay will have to work under contracts with wages that are around 25 per cent lower than the sum pilots and stewards of AUA are receiving at the moment.
German: http://www.pr-inside.com/de/aua-bordleute-gehen-alle-anderen-fliegen ... http://www.pr-inside.com/de/aua-bordleute-gehen-alle-anderen-fliegen-auf-spark-r3212107.htmhttp://www.vida.at/servlet/ContentServer ...
English:http://austrianindependent.com/news/Business/2012-06-05/11382/AUA_pilots_get_half_a_million_each_golden_handshake
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The independent mediation process over the Lagan Brick redundancy payments has ended without resolve. The dispute assessment panel has suggested the case be decided through binding arbitration, a suggestion to which trade union SIPTU has agreed but to which no answer has been received from management. The Lagan Brick dispute originates in a conflict over redundancy payments at the Lagan Brick manufacturing plant in Kingscourt.
English: http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2012/featurednews ...
The largest trade union FNV has called on the government to stop cuts in child care, arguing women are finding it increasingly difficult to combine work with family responsibilities. Recent reforms have cut back eligibility for a government funded scheme to keep child care affordable. FNV argues women have already reduced working hours and will be decreasing them even more next year. In reaction, the Social Affairs minister Henk Kamp has said women are not working less but finding alternatives to formal child care.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/06 ...
Oil workers' strike
June 27, 2o12
Norwegian oil and gas workers launched a limited strike on Sunday 24 June, demanding higher wages, the right to early retirement and to 14 days paternity leave, and plan to decide on 28 June whether to escalate their action as talks have broken down. Unions have tried to keep the labour action small enough to keep the government out while inflicting enough pain on companies to force them to act. So far the dispute resulted in the shutdown of production in five fields. Also onshore facilities are set to be hit.
English:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/norway-oil-workers-strike-forcing-rig ...
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-10/statoil-shell-s-norway-oil-operations ...
http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?ArticleCode ...
Unhappy over wave of strikes
June 11, 2o12
After a long spring marked by industrial disputes a debate about compulsory arbitration and ordering strikers to return back to work has emerged. The last dispute that led to this debate was a strike by the security guards around the country that clogged airports, disrupted cash supplies, emptied minibanks and created security concerns at a wide range of public gathering places.
English:http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/06/11/strikes-set-off-state-led-shake-up/
State sector strikes end, leaving unions divided
June 8, 2o12
After trade unions LO and YS reached a settlement with the government negotiator, the second biggest trade union confederation, Unio, has not ended its strike in favour of a voluntary binding arbitration process. LO and YS settled on a 4% wage increase earlier in June, after a one week strike, when Unio refused the offer. Calling even more workers to the street including the Union of Education Norway, the strike raged on for another week. While Unio blames the other unions for withdrawing too early, state claims the union demands were unrealistic from the start and several union sources report Unio was looking for escalation in the strike. In the voluntary arbitration process, Unio workers will likely reach the same settlement as the other unions.
English: http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/06/08/all-state-workers-finally-back-at-work/
http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/2959-strike-in-norway-is-partially-over;
http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/2181
Solidarnoscblocks hypermarket to defend sacked unionist
June20, 2012
Members of trade union NSZZ Solidarnosc have blocked Auchan hypermarket in Mikol¢w (Southern Poland) in defence of one of their members who was fired after establishing a company trade union branch. Unionists blocked the cash desks by paying items with the lowest denomination coins while others distributed leaflets explaining the action. Unionist Aron Plewa was sacked one day after notifying management of the union's establishment. Solidarnosc leadership is challenging the dismissal in court. The purchased items were school books given to an orphanage.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/uni.nsf/pages/homepageEn ...
A controversial plan allowing a supermarket to open up on Sundays has led to complaints from the side of workers representatives.The trade union GPA-djp criticized the non-compliance of working time rules and of the existing company agreement. The union is collecting the complaints and will hand these over to the competent authorities. Meanwhile staff reacted with mixed feelings because the pay on Sunday is much better. A Sunday shift is paid double the normal daily rate. Criticism also came from the Catholic Church.
English: http://austrianindependent.com/news/Business/2012-06-04 ...
German: http://www.proge.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=P01/Page/Index&n=P01_0.a&cid=1336662394441http://www.oegb.at/servlet/ContentServer ...
A tripartite task force installed last year to report on ways of improving the labour market position of atypical workers delivered its report mid-May, recommending the establishment of several task forces on smaller issues. Trade unions confederation STTK, Akava and SAK have stated the lack of concrete proposals in the report is due to the unwillingness of employers to strengthen a-typical workers' position.
English: http://www.artto.kaapeli.fi/unions/T2012/p21http://www.artto.kaapeli.fi/unions/T2012/p18
IGBCE and the chemical employers association BAVC concluded a new collective agreement, including a 4.5% wage hike. The collective agreement contains increased employer contributions into the "demographic fund", which allows older employees to work fewer hours for full salary in order to give younger workers more opportunities. The agreement includes a €50 per month pay increase for apprentices.The pay deal enters into force from 1 June in most parts of the country (some regions from 1 July or 1 August) and has duration of 19 months.
English:http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief ...
German: http://www.igbce.de/download/12996/2/tarifabschluss-chemie-2012-ost.pdf
The multinational container shipping company Maersk announced this month that it is cutting 400 jobs, 250 of which in Copenhagen. The cuts are an attempt to reorganise for greater efficiency in the face of large losses in the first quarter of 2012. Maersk's 3.4 billion kronor losses in the first quarter of 2012 compare badly to its 2.5 billion kronor profits just one year earlier.
English: http://cphpost.dk/business/maersk-line-cut-250-jobs-copenhagen
Trade unions and the local government association(LGA) have agreed on a proposal for a new local government pension scheme. The new scheme includes a switch from a final salary to a career average revalued earnings scheme, a higher accrual rate, a pension age synchronised with each individual worker's state pension age and no change in employee contributions. Both unions and the LGA will start consultations among their members and aim to implement the proposals by August. The new scheme will come into force from the 1st of April 2014.
English:http://www.unison.org.uk/asppresspack/pressrelease_view.asp?id=2713
The Labour Research department's database of collective agreements shows a midpoint (median) pay rise of 3% in the three months to April 2012. The increases average 3.0% across all sectors, apart from the public sector where the average is only 1.8% as a result of the public sector pay freeze. An important contributory factor to the rise is long-term, inflation-linked deals in the private sector based on the Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation figures.
English: http://1.lrd.org.uk/rp/334/process.clsp ...
In a protest against the government's plans to ban strikes in the aviation sector thousands of aviation workers went on the streets in Istanbul earlier this month. The workers, represented by the Hava-Is trade union, protested in front of Turkish Airlines' (THY) general management building. They were calling for an end to planned legislation that singles out Hava-Is, the only aviation union in Turkey, by banning strikes in the industry. The action was followed by a strike and work slowdown at Istanbul's main airport that forced Turkish Airlines to cancel more than 100 flights.
English: http://www.havais.org.tr/eng/index.php ...
http://www.havais.org.tr/eng/index.php ...
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/biz/inside.asp ...