More than 100,000 workers in Ireland are living in poverty even though they have jobs. “This shocking figure indicates that the employment system is broken, and workers’ rights are not being ...
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After months of negotiations and mobilisation, Spanish public sector unions have reached a deal with the government that will gradually restore workers’ purchasing power and repair some of the ...
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Working people in 9 EU countries are earning less in 2017 than they did in 2010! The countries are Italy, UK, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Finland, Croatia and Cyprus. Working people in 6 of ...
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The latest economic forecasts from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development show that current global recovery is benefiting the rich but doing very little for the poorer members ...
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Efforts to establish collective bargaining and trade union organisation in Bulgarian workplaces – many of them run by European companies – are being thwarted by harassment and victimisation of ...
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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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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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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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Thousands of Slovenian trade unionists gathered outside government buildings in Ljubljana on 24 January to demand “Higher wages for all, not just the privileged”. Some 30,000 public sector ...
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