Unjust pay rates can be deadly
By Rory O’Neill Occupational health adviser, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Belgium Professor, University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, UK Politicians of ...
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Workplace Week – the workers have their say
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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Exploitation of freelance journalists is a threat to our democracy
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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Norwegian collective bargaining delivers results
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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Close the EU’s wage gaps
ETUC Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, on ‘A European Alliance for Upward Wage Convergence
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Pay Transparency In Europe’s Companies
By Christine Aumayr-Pintar, Research manager, Eurofound Measures to promote gender pay transparency haven’t been delivered yet in half of Europe – making EU level legislative action to speed up ...
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Shareholder greed cost every worker €1764 in lost wages…just in 2017!
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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All public sector workers deserve a pay rise
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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Does high education lead to a high salary?
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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Unite launches new online payrise tool
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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