Metalworkers and public sector workers strike against precarious work

Members of the CGIL confederation’s metalworking and public service sections will be taking strike action on 13 February. The two federations are coming together in protest at a range of government policies that are attacking public sector workers, public services and undermining progress towards equality not just between men and women workers but also between domestic and migrant workers. The federations also argue that government policies are weakening workers’ rights in both public and private sectors. [Read more at > FP CGIL (IT)->http://www.fpcgil.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT

The European Metalworkers' Federation is running a co-ordinated collective bargaining campaign focussing on the right to training. The campaign was launched at the Federation's fifth collective bargaining conference in Rome on 11 and 12 October. EMF affiliates will put the demand for an individual right to training on their collective bargaining agenda and the campaign will be closely monitored over the next couple of years. The EMF conference also reaffirmed the need to more co-ordination to resist social dumping and underlined the importance of building its eucoba collective bargaining

The GÖD and younion public sector unions have been involved in the second round of bargaining over pay with the aim, as usual, to ensure that all public sector workers get a pay increase from 1 January. Alongside the surge in the cost of living the trade unions are underlining the increased burdens taken on by many workers, often as a result of staff shortages, as strong justification for a sustainable salary increase. The unions’ demands have been supported with a letter to the government negotiator from the head of the ÖGB trade union confederation. This highlights the massive contribution