The third round of collective bargaining for the working conditions of 2 million workers at national and regional level started on Wednesday 28 March after weeks of warn strikes and other alert actions. The public services union Verdi mobilised around 215,000 workers. On 27 March the main airports in Frankfurt, Cologne/Bonn, Dsseldorf, Munich and Stuttgart were paralysed as the employees of the different airport services joint the strikes.
German: http://www.verdi.de/themen/geld-tarif/tarifrunde-oed-2012/ . ; http://www.verdi.de/themen/geld-tarif/tarifrunde-oed-2012/ .
English: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120326-710973.html ; http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/lufthansa-strikes-idUSL6E8EQ77I20120326
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Trade union confederations SAK, STTK and Akava have issued a joint statement rejecting the European Commission proposal concerning the right to strike. The proposed Monti II regulation aims to define the relation between the right to take industrial action and the freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services. SAK, STTK and Akava warn that any conditionality on the right to strike is an infringement of fundamental freedoms.
English: http://www.artto.kaapeli.fi/unions/T2012/p13
The austerity measures and layoffs had reached the Hungarian universities as well. Recently the University of Miskolc told to dismiss as much as 70-80 employees, including 15-20 teachers too. Gyula Patk¢, rector of the university said if the school managed to decrease its costs while increasing the own revenues, the number of layoffs would be less. Other universities like University of Debrecen and Pcs earlier decided to layoff, because of the decreased support from the state.
English: M t Komiljovics, union correspondent
Hungarian road haulage company Waberer's wants to offer jobs to 360 jobseekers in northeast Hungary - an area with high unemployment - if they complete a truck-driving course. Waberer's chairman-CEO Gyrgy Waberer said at a press conference in V s rosnamny that the truck-driving course for 120 potential employees would start in weeks. State secretary for employment affairs S ndor Czomba said the instruction would take place with the involvement of job centers and be supported with state funding. He added that Waberer's new drivers could start working as early as the summer. Waberer's is the road haulage leader in Central and Eastern Europe. It has 2,500 lorries and employs 4,000 people.
English: M t Komiljovics, union correspondent
In a dispute over overcrowding and work pressure in hospitals, the doctors and nurses unions have come to opposite positions. In the end of February, an agreement with the Medical Association of Malta, representing doctors, to add beds to hospital wards to accommodate the increased number of patients requiring intensive care was overturned by an agreement with the nurses and midwives association MUMN, who protested that nurses were already overworked. MUMN has also drawn attention to the understaffing among nurses in operating theatres, whose numbers have not increased despite a 10% increase in operations through consultants.
English: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120229/local/hospital ... ;
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Talks between pilots union SEPLA and air carrier IBERIA broke down after IBERIA announced it will divert 40 of its planes to a newly launched low-budget carrier IBERIA Express. SEPLA claims the restructuring will cost approximately 8000 jobs. IBERIA says the low cost airline is the only way to make the company profitable.
English: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/27/iberia-idUSL6E8ER6Z920120327 ; http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/2012/03/28/40012/iberia+pilots+call+for+30 .
Terminal 1 at the Liszt Ferenc International Airport will be closed down following the grounding of national carrier MALV Hungarian Airlines. Airport operator said its terminal 2 alone would be able to handle all traffic, which has declined since Hungarian flag carrier Malev declared bankruptcy in early February. As a result of the bankruptcy of MALEV, the airport has to layoff as much as 198 employees, 20 % of the manpower. Furthermore investments worth €50-60 million will be suspended this year too. An agreement had been concluded by two of the trade unions on dismissal that started 1 month ago.
English: M t Komiljovics, union correspondent
Members of the National Union of Journalists have rejected a 5% pay cut proposed by the Irish Examiner, part of Thomas Crosbie Holdings, to keep the company competitive in an internal poll. NUJ's general secretary states that the staff has already made significant sacrifice and says the new cuts would go too far. The Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) and Unite are also believed to have organised polls.
English: http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/nuj-vote-rejects-5pc-pay-cut .
With the Austrian tourism sector still performing relatively well the trade unions fight in the ongoing bargaining sessions against the phenomenon of `working poor'. Tourism scores second worst after agriculture in the statistics of gross annual income of workers. The unions vida and GPA-djp (membership: 174,000 workers and 27,000 staff by February 2012) therefore demand an increase of the minimum wage from €1208 to €1450. The next negotiation round is planned for 12 April.
German: http://www.oegb.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=OEGBZ/Page/OEGBZ ...
In a fourth round of negotiations the trade unions vida and GPA-djp reached an agreement with the Red Cross in Vienna (RK). The agreed wage increase (with retrospective effect from 1 February 2012) is 3.3%. For all Austrian Red Cross workers (6,000 workers) an improvement of the parental and sickness leave (retrospective as from 1 January 2012) has been concluded.
German: http://www.vida.at/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=S03/Page/Index&n ...