Spain
The UGT and CCOO union federations, along with the United Platform of Firefighters, have written to the government to complain about the failure to change the necessary social security regulations to enable a reduction in the retirement age for firefighters. The unions warn of a nationwide mobilisation of firefighters if the government doesn't fulfil the promises it made in negotiations earlier this year.
Read more at > FSAP-CCOO (ES)
And at > FSP-UGT (ES)
(July 2016) Firefighters have been mobilising around the country and in some regions taking industrial action to defend their right to early retirement. In some regions firefighters have been handing in petitions to local authorities while in addition some firefighters have been dealing with emergency calls only. Firefighters currently have early retirement rights between 55 and 59 and want to resist the demand by employers to move to 60. Read more at FNV (NL).
The FNSFP public service union federation continues to express its opposition to government proposals to increase the pension age. From the end of this year a full pension will no longer be available at 60 after 36 years' service. The age and length of service will gradually increase over the next 10 years until a full pension will only be available at 65 years of age after 40 years' service. Read more at > FNSFP
The 150,000 workers in the private health sector are still waiting for collective agreements for the years 2006-07 and 2008-09 to be renewed. The FP-CSIL federation has said that this is a priority, particularly now that most of the other major agreements in the public services have been re-negotiated, particularly the public health agreement. Over the summer the FP-CSIL, FP- CGIL and FPS-UIL public service federations have been looking at ways of making progress, for example, by putting pressure on the regional health authorities that sign contracts with the private sector employers. [Read
