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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Workers in 7 EU countries worse off today than 8 years ago
Workers are still not feeling economic recovery: wages are lower now than they were eight years ago in seven EU member states, according to new research published today by the European Trade ...
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She needs a pay rise
A pay rise for women would narrow the gender pay gap, and boost the economy by giving millions of working women more money to spend. A pay rise that narrows and ultimately eliminate the pay gap ...
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Workers’ voice – National updates
National updates – #OurPayRise Union membership pays off in Czech Republic In the Czech Republic, wages are significantly higher in companies where workers are members of trade unions and ...
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Europe needs a pay rise – it’s time for our recovery!
Today, The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) launched the campaign for a pay rise for workers throughout Europe: to drive economic growth and tackle inequality. Over the last two days ...
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