After difficult negotiations, the Swedish Transport Workers' Union, reached an industry settlement on Sunday 22 April. The union and the security employers agreed to a mediator's recommended settlement. The agreement includes a wage growth of €81 per month (?67.50 for new employees and those on basic pay) and agreements on working time and employment needs concerning redundancies.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/uni.nsf/pages ...
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Australia's embassy in Paris has been a hotbed of industrial disputes. The trade union CFDT will bring the case before the industrial relations court, including claims of unfair dismissal, unpaid pensions, harassment and union bashing. Staff has been forced onto non-union workplace agreements, imposed by the Australian government in the past 18 months, and have lost the right to be represented in negotiations by a union.
English: http://www.smh.com.au/national/embassy-flouts-french-unions-and-faces-court ...
The employers' organisation VNG and the Dutch public service unions have concluded a new collective agreement for local civil servants (180,000 workers). It took months of negotiations after the old agreement expired (in June 2011). The contract foresees a retroactive pay increase of 1% on 1 January 2012 and the same increase on 1 April 2012. In August 2012 there will be a one-off cash payment (?400 for the lowest wage scales, €200 for the higher scales). Agreed is to invest in training and employability; as of 2013 every worker will receive a personal career budget of €500. The agreement expires on 31 December 2012.
English: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/eiro/2007/05/articles/nl0705019i.htm
Dutch: http://www.gemeente.nu/web/Bestuurszaken/Personeelszaken-Artikel/56023 ...
http://www.abvakabofnv.nl/nieuws/nieuws/principeakkoord-cao-gemeenten-nullijn-doorbroken
http://www.mijnvakbond.nl/Overheid-nieuws-Principeakkoord-CAO-Gemeenten?referrer=632
While the dispute for pay and labour conditions of the personnel on board continues the trade unions and the management of AUA (Austrian Airlines) reached an agreement on the continuation of the agreement for the ground personnel till 1 January 2014. Based on the existing agreement wages will (retrospectively) increase from 1 January 2012 with 3.3%. The unions and the works council will cooperate with management in a revision of the company's pension fund.
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In a new collective agreement that runs until 31 December 2013 a pay increase has been concluded for employees of the Germany Red Cross (DRK). This year's increase by 3.5% (from 1 July 2012) is in line with that agreed for civil servants in the federal and local government while next year's rise by 2% (from 1 January 2013) is just ahead by 0.6%. Other changes lead to a pay structure that ensures that there are no differences in pay for new starters; this will mean additional increases on top of the 3.5%.
German: http://gesundheit-soziales.verdi.de/
Trade unions have mounted two consecutive Friday demonstrations (on 13 and 20 April) in Rome to protest against announced austerity plans. The government has introduced measures to set the pension age at 66 for all workers, where the previous age was 65 for men and 60 for women. It has also the intention to make it easier for companies to fire employees. The CGIL leadership has announced a general strike if the Monti government doesn't change its policy.
English: http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/04/13/1461s693197.htm
http://www.euronews.com/2012/04/20/strike-hit-italy-rages-against-monti-s-labour-reforms/
Italian: http://www.fpcgil.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/22047
http://www.fp.cisl.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2910:manifestazione ...
The Kommunal municipal services union has given notice of a dispute with three private health companies - Frsunda, Humana Assistance AB and Olivia. The unions protest the limited wage increase of 2.6% offered by the employers. Kommunal has argued that the increase both lags behind local government employee wage increases as well as being unrepresentative of the increased assistance allowance the companies receive from the government.
English: http://www.epsu.org/a/8632
Swedish: http://www.kommunal.se/Kommunal/press/Pressmeddelanden/Kommunal-varslar ...
In a protest lead by the Turkish Doctors' Union (TTB) physicians and healthcare workers across the country responded to the murder of a young doctor to draw attention to the general lack of security at hospitals. They asked for better protection in a two-day strike.
English: http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=88764
Trade union confederation FNV has denounced plans by the government to allow companies to deviate from legally extended sectoral collective agreements. In response to motions from a number of MPs that request more control over collective agreements, the FNV reacted the collective bargaining is the premise of employers and trade unions rather than Parliaments.
English: http://unionrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/04/tampering-with-cla-will-make-workers.html
The annual negotiations at Caterpillar that started in December 2011 were finalised on with an agreement mid April. Next to a pay rise of 2% for all (except for the management), the agreement consists of an extra payment based on merit (for approximately 80% of the workforce), increase of the minimum wage (with 3.4%) to €1,515 and an extension of the pay structure. Furthermore 80 precarious labour contracts will convert in 2012 into permanent contracts. The agreement applies for the Grenoble and Echirolles plants with in total 2,400 workers and is valid for one year.
English: http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=29660&l=2
French: http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=29660&l=5