Make May Day Pay Day!
Across Europe, as workers celebrate trade union solidarity on 1 May, many ETUC affiliates will be using the opportunity to highlight their demands for higher pay, and support for the ETUC’s #Our ...
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Why pay rises boost the economy
By Ronald Janssen Wages across Europe have been suffering much in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis. Before the crisis, nominal wages were increasing at a rate of 3 to 3.5%. Since then ...
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Cross-border call for higher wages
At their 11th traditional ‘Trade Unions Without Borders’ gathering in Mokrice, Slovenia, on 20 April, Croatian and Slovenian trade union confederations UATUC and ZSSS signed a joint statement on ...
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30 million Europeans on “Not-Rich List”
Every spring, Forbes magazine releases a list of the world’s billionaires – a list that has been growing almost every year of this decade. The 2017 list features 445 billionaires from the ...
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Women in Italy: the impact of a lifetime of lower pay
An article in La Repubblica newspaper highlights how Italy’s gender pay gap is less evident in hourly wages than in how much a woman takes home in annual salary, and her pension on retirement. ...
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Childcare workers in Hungary support ETUC pay rise campaign
The BDDSz childcare workers’ trade union in Hungary is supporting the ETUC’s pay rise campaign. The union believes that many of the headline demands of the campaign – tackling low pay and the ...
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