Finland
National negotiations over a framework for pay increases over the next two years broke down at the beginning of October and now collective bargaining will continue at sectoral level. The EK private business federation and KT local government employers offered a 2.4% pay increase for 13 months and 1.9% for the following 12 months. The SAK and STTK confederations rejected the offer as too low.
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Negotiations over pay at the energy company EON have broken down. In the third round of talks, the company made a revised offer to increase pay by 1.7%, up from 1.1%, but this was rejected by the two trade unions, ver.di and IGBCE. The unions had submitted a claim for an increase of 6.5% along with calls to take on apprentices after qualification and for collective agreements to apply to subsidiary companies. The unions will be consulting their members with the possibility of an all-out strike unless EON comes up with an improved offer. [Read more at > ver.di (DE)->http://www.verdi.de/presse
The fifth round of negotiations between unions and employers in the federal and local government sectors broke down as the employers sought to link a deal on pay with an increase in working time. Ver.di was very pleased at the level of support for a second round of warning strikes from 4-6 March that included airports. The failure of the latest round of negotiations has led to the dispute now being referred to an arbitration committee that will report before the next round of bargaining gets underway on 29 March. [Read more at > ver.di (DE)->http://tarif-oed.verdi.de/tarifrunden/oed-tarifrunde
Discussions over the economic crisis involving the government, the CCOO and UGT trade union confederations and the CEOE employers’ organisation have broken down after the CEOE set out a series of “clarifications” regarding the current negotiations. The unions reaffirmed their commitment to the social dialogue and the need to discuss how to deal with the increase in unemployment. They said that the CEOE had undermined the negotiating process by trying to introduce a series of demands that were clearly unacceptable. These included reopening the debate on labour reform and the issue of the ease
