Teachers in primary and secondary education have been on strike demanding a decent pay rise, which recognises the high workload and complexity of the profession. The EU trade union for education ETUCE stands on solidarity with the Croatian member organisations and supports their fair demand for a salary increase of on average 6.11% for all employees in primary and secondary education.
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[close]In Estonia, the interest of consumers in free-of-choice pension funds, is the lowest as compared to other member states of the European Union, a study of Better Finance investor rights group found.
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[close]A group of full-time Google employees in Zurich met to discuss unionization in defiance of their employer’s attempt to cancel the meeting. The tensions reflect Google’s growing struggles with employee discontent over workplace issues that go beyond just labour organizing. The company’s leadership tried to cancel the meeting and replace it with a company meeting on labour laws and workers’ rights. Despite this effort employees met anyway. This may be a sign of a growing voice among white-collar workers at tech companies.
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[close]The number of peacefully settled cases doubled compared to 2018, as more and more workers avoid strikes and complicated court procedure and choose mediation of the Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labour Disputes. The main reasons for such growth are the amendments to the legislation which gave the Agency more powers, as well as the adoption of its Code of Ethics. In last few years, the Agency has become a more important player in Serbian social dialogue.
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[close]After the union UFO (Unabhängige Flugbegleiter Organisation, Independent Flight Attendants Organization) called all Lufthansa flight attendants out on a five-hour strike, in the end only the Lufthansa group subsidiaries Eurowings, German Wings, SunExpress Germany and Lufthansa CityLine were called for a strike. The strike call planned for Lufthansa itself was cancelled because the airline met the unions demand for an increase in salary of 2% by the end of the year. The warning strike at the subsidiaries was prolonged to last until midnight.
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[close]One of the largest teacher trade unions in Lithuania is initiating a strike over the government's planned education funding. The strike will be held over the government's planned education funding for 2020 under consideration along the next year's state budget. The trade union's representatives pointed to the fact that the government pledged to allocate almost 118 million euros next year under the collective agreement signed earlier this year with representatives of the education and science area.
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[close]Families need decent wages in order to afford all the essentials. But high wages do not necessarily make families happy. There is no direct correlation between money and happiness, unless the family has real economic problems. The key to happiness is mainly spending time with family and friends. Icelanders are considered to be the world’s happiest people, along with their Nordic neighbours. Iceland has been ranked among the five happiest countries in the world for many years now.
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[close]Croatia backed down on changes to its pension system as parliament reinstated a retirement age of 65 after leading trade unions staged protests against a rise to 67. Like many European countries, Croatia has an aging population, and parliament approved a government proposal in December to raise the retirement age to 67 from 2033 instead of 2038 as previously planned, for both men and women. It also aimed to trim pensions for people who retire early.
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[close]Many employers are not aware that they must work on active measures to promote equal rights and opportunities for their employees. So says the Swedish government, which has appointed a commissioner tasked with coming up with proposals for how to make the monitoring of the discrimination act more effective. The discrimination act does not only prohibit discrimination. It also makes employers responsible for working on active measures in order to achieve equal rights and opportunities for all.
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[close]Belgian based multinational materials company Umicore (employing 10,700 people worldwide) and IndustriALL Global Union renewed their Global Framework Agreement on Sustainable Development for another four-year period. The renewal is the third since 2007. It covers human rights, including collective bargaining and equal opportunities, violence and harassment at work (ILO Convention 190), safe and healthy working conditions and environmental issues.
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