The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has calculated that if the proportion of GDP made up by wages were the same as in the early 1990s working people in the EU would have earned an extra ...
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Meeting: All public sector workers deserve a pay rise, House of Commons, London, 6 March 2018, 18.00-19.00. After a seven-year pay squeeze all public sector workers deserve a pay rise. The rise ...
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Interview with Petru Dandea, General Secretary, Cartel-ALFA In Romania, the law on trade union representation is so harsh that collective bargaining at national and sector levels is virtually ...
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By Martin Jefflén, President, Eurocadres – Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff As a trade unionist representing professionals and managers, from to time I have reason to ...
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Britain’s largest trade union, Unite, has developed a new online tool to give union activists the resources they need to win higher pay for members. Real earnings in the UK have declined overall ...
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By Sotiria Theodoropoulou, senior researcher, ETUI Economic recovery seems at long last to have taken off in Europe, reaching even those countries that suffered the most during the crisis. While ...
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By Peter Scherrer, Deputy General Secretary, ETUC The German economy is flourishing, with growth expanding throughout 2017. Unemployment, at under 4%, has never been lower since German ...
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A ground-breaking agreement between German trade union IG Metall and employers in the region of Baden-Württemburg sets a precedent likely to be followed across Germany, and gives a positive ...
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In defiance of a strike ban imposed by the government, Turkish metalworkers have fought on against threats and intimidation to win a new sectoral collective agreement offering wage rises of ...
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