The supervisory board of AUA, the Lufthansa dominated leadership of Austrian Airlines, announced to withdraw from the existing collective agreement for the board personnel. The AUA aims to shift to the agreement of Tyrolean, a regional Lufthansa subsidiary that is said to be 25% cheaper. With the choice for the Tyrolean agreement newly engaged personnel would earn 25% less, the automatic price compensation will disappear and also the pension schemes will not be automatically corrected for inflation. In reaction the unions have annulled the Tyrolean agreement. According to the trade union vida and the works council the move from the company is unlawful. This all fits in a long battle that started with a Lufthansa plan to economise on overall costs and has now reached a new stage where labour costs are envisaged though the calculated 20% labour costs in overall costs are said to be comparable to the costs in the mother company. A ballot planned for 30 April on a package deal between the management and the works council was postponed. The unions try the utmost to avoid the transfer to the Tyrolean agreement.
German: http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/wirtschaft/aktuell/tyrolean-tarifvertrag ...
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/sanierungsmassnahmen-treffen-mitarbeiter ...
http://www.nachrichten.at/nachrichten/wirtschaft/art15,867845
http://www.vida.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=S03/Page/Index ...
English: http://austrianindependent.com/news/Business/2012-04-20 ...
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Trade union IG Metall started with a series of warning strikes. In the third round of negotiations for a new agreement in the metal sector the employers came with a proposal for a 3% pay increase (over a 14 months' period). For IG Metall this is not an acceptable offer and a series of warning strikes has started all over the country.
English: http://www.france24.com/en/20120429-german-union-starts-strikes ...
http://www.just-auto.com/news/ig-metall-threatens-strike-action-if-65-pay-demand ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/29/us-germany-strikes-idUSBRE83S0G320120429
German: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/tarifstreit-in-der-metallindustrie ...
http://www.igmetall.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-02EA1D06-2CD1AB48/internet/style .
A dispute over payments for working at different sites has led to a strike since 16 April at the Cattenom and Fessenheim power plants in the Alsace-Lorraine region of Northeast France. Worker employed by the SPIE DEN engineering company, subsidiary of SPIE Nucleaire, backed up the call of the FNME-CGT union federation for the same pay and conditions for all SPIE employees. FNME-CGT is also urging the EDF energy company to make sure its contractors pay the same to all their employees doing the same job.
French: http://www.fnme-cgt.fr/pages/blank-width.php?id=320
Negotiations over a new local government agreement have been moved into mediation. Key trade union demands are a general pay increase combined with a higher increase on the lowest salaries along with increased supplements for working inconvenient hours. According to the trade unions the attitude of the employers organisations FO, SL and EL&IT has not been serious. The unions want to achieve for the 200,000 workers an agreement on sound recruitment, high quality and competences for all.
English: http://www.fagforbundet.no/forsida/?article_id=91709
http://www.ys.no/kunder/ys/cms.nsf ...
A restructuring of its Polish operations might lead to job losses at Tesco in May and June. Probably 3,000 Tesco workers across the country will lose their jobs in the retail, distribution and regional activities. Tesco has informed the trade unions of its intention to carry out the redundancies, which will cover 10% of the workforce. The UK retailer currently employs around 28,500 staff across Poland and operates 420 stores.
English: http://www.just-food.com/news/tesco-poland-unit-review-spells-potential ...
Polish: http://www.solidarnosc.org.pl/pl/aktualnosci/tesco-zwalnia-.html
The trade union Kommunal, representing around blue-collar workers in local and regional government, has negotiated a new one-year agreement covering around 350,000 workers that runs to 31 March 2013. The agreement includes a pay increase of around 3% (?73). The lowest paid workers will get the same nominal amount of €73 (a pay increase of 4.0% for them). Other allowances increase by 2.6% and fixed-term employment will be limited.
English: http://www.kommunal.se/Kommunal/Nyheter/2012/Avtal-klart-mellan .
Pilots union SEPLA called of the announced one-day work stoppages every Monday and Friday from April until July, after agreeing with aircraft carrier Iberia to arbitration. The agreement includes the cancellation of announced 20% pay cuts by Iberia. Earlier this month, Iberia was forced to cancel 122 national and international flights on 20 April following a strike against the creation of the low-cost branch ''Iberia Express''. The pilots fear that working conditions at Iberia Express will be considerably worse than at the mother company, where its establishment could lead to 8,000 job losses. A government-appointed arbiter has commenced talks with SEPLA and Iberia.
English: http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/04/29/inenglish/1335726245_918880.html
http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/04/27/inenglish/1335560806_373071.html
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/transport/2012/04/20 ...
Trade union Ver.di announced new strikes by employees of different parts of Deutsche Telekom (DT). The fourth round of wage negotiations took place on 23 April. Ver.di is asking the employer for a wage increase of 6.5 percent over a period of 12 months for the around 85,000 employees. A recommendation formulated by an independent mediator for the DT-AG will be on the table on 3 May. The recommendation includes a pay increase by 1 May 2012 of 2.3%, and further increases of 2.1% from 1 January 2013 and 1 August 2013. It comes near to the demands as formulated by Ver.di. In other parts of the company the dispute continues.
German: http://tk-it.nrw.verdi.de/projekte/projekt-tarifbewegungen-2012 ...
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/15/deutschetelekom-strike ...
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/deutsche-telekom-workers-start-token-strikes
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/16/deutschetelekom-union-id ...
Members approve the public sector pay deal
April 25, 2012
In the nick we reported in the March Newsletter on the pay deal reached in the public sector on 31 March. The deal including a 6.3% pay increase for two million workers employed by the federal government and local authorities was accepted by a majority of the union members in a ballot running till 24 April. The first stage of the increase is backdated to 1 March 2012 and is for 3.5%. There will be two more increases of 1.4% in 2013, the first on 1 January and the second on 1 August. The collective bargaining committee of the union approved the deal already on 31 March.
German: https://www.verdi.de/themen/geld-tarif/tarifrunde-oed-2012 ...
https://www.verdi.de/themen/geld-tarif/tarifrunde-oed-2012/++co .
English: https://mninews.deutsche-boerse.com/index.php/germany-public-sector ...
According to the latest data of the Central Statistical Bureau construction costs increased with 6.4% in a twelve months' period (March 2011-2012). Remuneration of workers increased by 16.4% compared to March 2011. More detailed information is available in the CSB Database.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=56690
Police unions announced further actions after Parliament approved a pay freeze for two years. Union representatives stated that the freeze in salaries is unacceptable because other civil servants do receive pay increases of 2%. Following previous public-friendly actions involving closing police stations and stopping to write out small fines, the unions now announced larger scale actions and warned that events requiring a large police presence might be endangered.
English: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2012/04/police_unions_to_step_up ...
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/police-unions-meet-minister-over-pay-row