The SINTAP public service trade union met with the Secretary of State for Social Security by the end of October as to discuss the major staff shortages affecting the department. A wide range of posts are currently unfilled. A report of the latest situation is due to be finished by the end of November and will be discussed with the union at the beginning of December. Despite the difficult circumstances the union believes there is scope for negotiation, highlighting in particular to address problems with the pay and career structure.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
Portuguese: http://www.sintap.pt/
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Starting Wednesday 26 October, the FSP-UGT public services federation organised a protest action over the deterioration of pay and conditions in the Public Employment Services. The federation says that inadequate staffing has led to employees taking work home to try to maintain the level of service. FSP-UGT also says that there are problems in relation to pay levels and other working conditions, problems which were made more challenging following the merger with the wage guarantee fund FOGASA.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
Spanish: http://www.fspugt.es/La_FSPUGT_protesta_por_el_grave_deterioro_de_las_condiciones_laborales ...
The four main trade unions in the private waste sector, including FP-CGIL, are planning strike action over a new agreement as well as over safety issues in the industry. There has been a week of action from 6 to 13 November that involved an overtime ban and other action, while a day of strike action will be followed by two more if there is no response to the unions' demands for measures to deal with safety and job insecurity in the sector. Safety is a major concern following deaths of workers in recent months.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
Italian: http://www.fpcgil.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/20060
Demonstrations in the cities of Tilburg and Arnhem have been organized on 8 and 10 November by workers in sheltered employment, in support of their claims for a new collective agreement but also in protest at the massive cutbacks across the sector. The local authority employers' federation, VNG, wants to freeze pay. Moreover, the current government coalition is planning to cut 70,000 of the 100,000 jobs currently available in sheltered workplaces, while allowing exemption for employers from paying the statutory minimum wage to those by then exposed to the `regular' labour market (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 4 May 2011).
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
Dutch: http://www.abvakabofnv.nl/nieuws/archief/281576/379944/nog-2-acties-sw
The FOA public services union is critical of an initiative to reduce sickness absence by the Billund local authority in the Southern Denmark region. The council is paying an attendance bonus and this may be taken up by other municipalities. FOA argues that if sickness absence seems too high, then this may raise questions about management responses and about understanding the causes of absence. The union makes the point that employees should not be forced to go to work if they are ill, particularly when they are working with the young, the sick and the elderly who would be more vulnerable to any contagious illnesses.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
Czech: http://www.foa.dk/Forbund/Presse?newsid={64E0509C-F9C9-402D-B47D-4C356270CBA7}
The Fagforbundet public sector trade union has set a target for bus drivers' wages for next year's negotiations. The aim will be to get bus drivers' pay in line with the average wage in the manufacturing sector. Currently drivers are paid around NOK 25,000 (?3,200) yearly less than that target. The negotiations will also look at drivers' working hours and in particular weekend work, with a view to addressing issues around work-life balance.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
Norwegian: http://www.fagforbundet.no/forsida/tariff/?article_id=68049
Unions in the non-profit sector, covering a range of health and social services, are starting negotiations over a new federal agreement with their main focus on protecting purchasing power and increasing employment. There has been a review of occupations in the sector at federal level and on the basis of these changes in job descriptions, unions are looking for a new pay structure and arrangements that will provide progression over a career and will take account of length of service. In order to tackle the increase in workload and stress, particularly in health sector jobs, the unions are looking for an increase in employment that will also allow employees to adjust their hours and secure a better work-life balance.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
Dutch: http://www.bbtk.org/nieuws/Pages/SocialProfitnutijdvoorfederaleakkoorden.aspx
French: http://www.setca.org/News/Pages/Non-Marchandaccordsfederauxlemomentestvenu.aspx
Between 27 October and 7 November workers at the EON energy company were involved in a range of actions - demonstrations and workplace meetings - in protest at the company's restructuring plans. On 7 November, over 4,000 EON employees demonstrated in Hannover. As many as 11,000 jobs worldwide, including 6,500 in Germany, could be cut and the company is not ruling out compulsory redundancies. The ver.di services union is not only critical of the plans but also of the failure of the company to provide any detail of the job cuts and where they will fall (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 4 October 2011).
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
German: https://www.verdi.de/themen/arbeit/++co++fcfc45a2-09f5-11e1-58ac-0019b9e321cd
Over 1,500 church workers joined a demonstration in Magdeburg on 4 November organized by services union ver.di over the right to strike. Church organisations are major employers in the country's health and social services sector but are opposed to granting normal employment rights to their workers. The synod (parliament) of the Evangelical Church met that day and reaffirmed its rule banning employees from taking strike action. The ver.di union regretted the decision and said that it would only serve to sharpen the conflict between the union and church employers.
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/446
German:http://www.streikrecht-ist-grundrecht.de/node/195
Public wages and pensions will be frozen in 2012 at their December 2011 levels, under Ordinance 80/2010 passed by the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday 8 November. This ordinance was initially designed to pass measures to reduce payment arrears and secure financing for the loans of the local public administrations. It passed 146 to 104 and four abstentions, with the opposition threatening to challenge the ordinance with the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR). Under the draft law, the gross pay of public employees for 2012 is kept at the December 2011 levels.
English: http://www.financiarul.ro/2011/11/09/chamber-of-deputies-vote-to-freeze ...