Italy
The three main union federations are planning a four-hour national stoppage in the EON energy company on 25 March. The strike is in protest at the company’s failure to discuss its long-term strategy and ensure, what the unions argue, would be adequate investments to protect employment in the company. The planned action was reported at the recent meeting of the EON European works council.
Read more at > FILCTEM-CGIL (IT)
And at EPSU (EN)
Meter readers employed by the E.ON energy multinational took a day of strike action on Monday 17 December in protest at this year's pay offer and several years without a consolidated pay increase. They are also protesting because management have received higher increases in recent years. The workers will refuse to work overtime and will withdraw goodwill from 2 January until the dispute is resolved. Read more at > Unite
E.ON, the biggest energy company in Germany, has announced plans for makes savings of €1.5 billion by 2015 that would involve cutting around 11,000 jobs from its total global workforce of 85,000. As many as 6,000 of these job cuts will be in Germany. The company has not ruled out compulsory redundancies. Ver.di and the E.ON works council argue that workers are being forced to shoulder an unfair share of the savings. They also point out that there is an agreement that there should be no compulsory redundancies before the end of 2012. Ver.di wants to look at the company’s figures in more detail
