Public sector workers and civil servants belonging to the German Ver.di trade union are celebrating a major collective bargaining breakthrough with a new pay deal offering increases of 7.5% over ...
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As part of the ETUC Pay Rise campaign, IndustriAll Europe and its affiliates are participating in the ‘Workplace Week’ from 7 – 11 May 2018. Throughout the week we will share workers’ ...
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Unions representing some 800,000 public sector workers at state, regional and municipal level in Denmark have secured a series of new collective agreements with an overall pay rise of 8.1% over ...
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By Renate Schroeder, Director, European Federation of Journalists The gap between the incomes of the diminishing number of journalists with stable contracts and the growing band of freelances in ...
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The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has issued an unprecedented ‘emergency alert’ that highlights countries and situations where the opportunity for working people in Europe to achieve ...
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The Norwegian labour market model is working. Tough negotiations between the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) have culminated in a ...
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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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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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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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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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