The government has announced that all major public infrastructure works will go to public tenders. Chinese investors that are looking at investing in several projects as for instance the extension of the Rijeka port and the construction of new railways will not be exempt from the laws on investment and the employment of foreign labour.
English: http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2012-04-27/26708 ...
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The employers' confederation has backed up a government plan to reform the benefits system related to work incapacity. To qualify for disability payments, a person must have permanently lost 40-100% of his or her work capacity. According to the Statistics workforce survey, in 2009, there were 82,000 Estonians between the ages of 15 and 64 who had permanently lost at least 40 percent of their capacity for work; early 2012 the number had increased to 90,100 persons. The three main reasons workers end up on disability pensions are ordinary illnesses, work-related disorders and injuries. The reform based on active measures to allow people to return to a job can result in a €350 million reduction in benefit payouts and will lower the employers' social tax obligations.
English: http://news.err.ee/economy/e62ae557-739d-4f79-8a2c-def6db732ec6
During a trilateral council meeting at the Ministry of Social Security and Labour the president of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation (LPSK) brought to the fore that the government proposals do not correspond with the expectations of both the trade unions and the employers. If the government does not approve an increased minimum monthly wage up to LTL 900 (?258), trade unions are planning to sign a joint agreement with businessmen on increasing the wage up to that amount.
English: http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/analytics/?doc=56464
Approximately 100 employees of Metalburg Steel have gone on strike over delayed salary payments. According to OZ Kovo president Emyl Machyna, production has been halted and Metalburg Steel will file for bankruptcy at the regional court in order to draw funds from the guarantee fund. Metalburg Steel manager Juraj Mac said delays are due to a problem in dispatching products on time and denies that production has been halted, claiming that some of the 100 signatories of the document submitted by OZ Kovo came to work.
English: http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/46176/10/metalurg_steel_employees_strike ...
Company council OS KOVO called off the strike alert after a collective agreement was reached with the Skoda company management on the 20th of April. After sixteen rounds of negotiations, an agreement was reached including a 5% wage increase and higher employer contributions into the workers' pension schemes. Workers at the Czech Republic's biggest carmaker, Skoda Auto, had previously stepped up pressure on company managers to meet their demands for pay rises by warning that work shifts would no longer be guaranteed. Unions warned early April that working shifts were covered by a flexible working deal that expired at the end of March and ceased to apply pending a new pay deal.
English: http://www.eucoban.eu/EMF/Reports/OS-KOVO-Collective-bargaining-results ...
http://www.ceskapozice.cz/en/business/companies/skoda-auto-unions-say ...
Teachers, doctors, police officers and other public workers went on strike on Wednesday 20 April over proposed pay cuts. The government plans to cut public sector wages by some 7.5% from July 2012. The strike involving some 80,000 public sector workers was the largest since the country's independence in 1991.
English: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/world/detail/126189/
http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=142539
http://www.psnews.com.au/worldpsn3106.html
The industrial dispute over the shock announcement that the Austrian owned Mayr-Melnhof Packaging (MMP) plant in Bootle, Liverpool was to shut continues (see the February Newsletter). Unite, the UK's biggest union, has not been consulted over the decision to close the MMP site and this breaches both UK and European legal obligations. The union is to take legal action over the unlawful dismissal of its workforce and closure of the site and is arranging to issue an application in the Employment Tribunal claiming a protective award on behalf of all union members made redundant. The union backed up by UNI Global seeks the maximum remedy of 13 weeks gross pay for each member. Unite announced on 24 April that it is travelling to the MMP shareholders' meeting in Vienna to demand a hearing with the company management that has continuously refused to talk to the union.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/UNINews.nsf ...
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/118195
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news__events/latest_news/unite_to_take_legal ...
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news__events/latest_news/unite_the_union_will ...
GDF Suez workers have blocked three liquefied natural gas terminals in Bouches-du-Rhone. Trade union CGT reported that following GDF's €8,3 billion take over of Britain's International Power, 220 GDF Suez employees signed a letter to the company's management demanding a fairer distribution of profits. As liquefied natural gas accounts for about one third of France's gas supply, any prolongation of the strike was expected to lead to shortages. On Monday 23 April workers approved an outline agreement with GDF Suez's Elengy unit calling for a better sharing out of profits.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/france-lng-strike ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/19/france-lng-strike-idUSL6E8FJ7JP20120419
French: http://www.leparisien.fr/marseille-13000/greve-dans-une-filiale-de-gdf-suez ...
Workers of the Lead and Zinc Complex in Kardzhali, the leading Bulgarian non-ferrous metals producer, rallied once again Thursday 5 April with demands to receive their long-delayed salaries. Representatives of the Confederation of Independent Unions in Bulgaria, KNSB, at the plant announced they would protest until the money gets to the workers' bank accounts. On Wednesday 11 April, the lead workers moved their rally to the nation's capital, Sofia. The workers have called for the nationalisation of the Kardzali complex and for legislative changes that would make employees the top creditor of companies in case of default. Negotiations between creditors and trade unions to rescue the heavily indebted company from insolvency started 23 April. The workforce agreed to abstain from new protest for one week. A Polish consortium is said to be ready to assume the payment of the delayed salaries.
English: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138433
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=138755
The Unionen trade union and the employers' organisation Svenska FlygBranschen signed the national collective agreement on 23 April providing all 18 airlines in Sweden with a single settlement for cabin crew. The new single collective agreement replaces the 10 previously existing collective agreements. Negotiations for the single collective agreement took four years and involved industrial action, voluntary and forced arbitration.
English: http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/7320 ...