The Trilateral Council disagreed on proposed changes to the Labour Code which suggest introducing an opportunity for an employer to terminate a labour contract after an employee turns 65 giving a three months warning not four months, as it is right now, before dismissal.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/legislation ...
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Before the start of the negotiations on a new tripartite agreement the trade unions have reacted with consternation to an employer requirement that agreements reached with the government on increasing working hours must be passed into law by Parliament, thus making union member voting superfluous. According to FOA chairman Dennis Kristensen the foundation of the collective bargaining system is that there is member democracy.
English: http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/ECE1633949/union-boss-members-to-vote ...
Danish: http://politiken.dk/politik/ECE1633791/foa-boss-loenmodtagere-skal-stemme ...
Former workers of Vita Cortex that started a sit-in to receive promised additional redundancy payments have accepted the company's offer. While the payments are less than demanded, the former employees unanimously accepted the new deal, which represents a significant improvement to their current situation. The deal comes after the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) announced last month (see April newsletter) it was willing to make free assets for Vita Cortex's agreed supplementary redundancy payments of 0.9 weeks per worked year (on top of the statutory two weeks). As a part of the agreement, the 161-day sit-in at Vita Clean ended at the moment that Vita Cortex processed the payments.
English: http://www.siptu.ie/media/pressreleases2012/featurednews ...
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/end-of-vita-cortex-sit-in-expected ...
Following the education cut backs reported in last month's newsletter, trade unions, parents and students associations announced a day of action for 22 May. Teachers went on strike in cities across the country by the thousands, seeking to defend the education sector against a package of spending cuts - €10 billion, or $12.7 billion - approved by Parliament as part of the government's plan to meet its stringent budget targets. The strike was the first ever coordinated by Spain's five main teachers' unions, across the whole of the state education sector, from nursery school to university. While the unions claimed that 80 percent joined the strike, the government put the level at 19.4 percent.
English: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/2164 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/world/europe/education-and-health-care-cuts ...
The Confederation of the Independent Unions of Latvia has launched a signature drive for dissolution of the 11th Saeima (the parliament). According to the trade union the coalition parties and the government keep breaking their election promises, lying to the nation, and ignoring the social partners. The confederation had offered all parties to sign a social responsibility agreement and had suggested an increase of minimum wages and tax reform. According to the Constitution's Article 14, the motion for dissolution of parliament must be signed by at least one-tenth of voters for a referendum to be organised.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/legislation ...
After a period of warning strikes the partners in bargaining in the metal sector have concluded an agreement that includes a 4.3% wage raise for the sector's 3.6 million workers. The deal between IG Metall union and employers in southern Baden-Wuerttemberg state - home to carmakers Daimler and Porsche - includes the wage raise, secures the position of apprentices and somewhat limits the use of temporary workers. The metal industry association president Martin Kannengiesser said the deal with a 13-month duration, initially reached for the state's 800,000 metal workers, will be applied to all of Germany.
English: http://www.cnbc.com/id/47485680
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/19/us-germany-wages ...
German: http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/internet/style.xsl/tarifabschluss-sichert ...
http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/internet/style.xsl/was-den-beschaeftigten ...
Reports on the strikes: http://www.france24.com/en/20120502-strike-fans-out ...
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/118539
http://www.steelguru.com/international_news/IG_Metall_workers_strike ...
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/German+union+hits+Daimler ...
http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=29831&l=2
During a meeting with the ministry of social security a delegation of the OGBL has expressed the trade union criticism related to the planned reform of the pension system. The primacy is on reduction of costs that will have an impact on future payments and the usual adjustment to inflation and general wage increase. Notably workers in sectors with a heavy workload will suffer a deterioration of their pension rights. According to the union the purpose of any reform must be to improve the working conditions for elderly workers and to create adequate end-of-career job opportunities.
French: http://www.ogbl.lu/blog/unterredung-zwischen-dem-ogbl-und-dem-minister ...
German: http://www.ogbl.lu/de/blog/unterredung-zwischen-dem-ogbl-und-dem-minister ...
The trade union Ver.di has called on bank employees in southern cities including Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Mannheim to go on strike for several hours in order to put pressure on the negotiations for a new collective agreement in a sector with 220,000 workers. So far the employers have offered a pay increase of 4.2% over a 30 months period (but as this percentage is distributed over this period the effective increase is just 1.4%). Ver.di is demanding a 6% pay increase, after 5 years of modest wage developments.
German: http://www.verdi-direkt-in-der-hvb.de/tarif/2012_verdi_Presse ...
English: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-21/union-calls-for-strikes ...
A collective agreement for temporary agencies working in the metal sector has been concluded almost in parallel with the sector's new agreement. The agreement concluded between IGÿMetall and the employers' organisations in the agency sector (BAP and IGZ) is applicable as of 1ÿNovember 2012.
German: http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/internet/style.xsl/tarifabschluss ...
The dispute at Austrian Airlines created by the management decisions to opt out from the existing collective agreement and to transfer the workforce to the cheaper agreement of subsidiary Tyrolean enters a new stage. The planned reform will come into effect on 1 July unless executive board and works council find an alternative solution in the coming weeks. Protest of the workforce has led to cancellation of flights. The trade union vida is considering juridical steps to declare the transfer null and void. Other demands are the respect for the existing agreements and the right for individual employees to oppose the planned company transfer.
German: http://www.vida.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename ...
English: http://austrianindependent.com/news/Business/2012-05-15 ...