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The ADEDY public sector confederation organized a national strike on 5 October in response to the government’s latest round of austerity measures. One part of the latest package of cuts would involve transferring 30,000 public sector workers to a special labour reserve where they would be lower pay, with the prospect that the jobs would be permanently cut.
Read more at > ADEDY (GR)
And at > Guardian news website (EN)
And at > Bloomberg news website (EN)
The JHL public services union is organising a 24-hour strike of bus drivers in Helsinki on 2 May. The strike is in protest at the refusal of the PTY employers’ organisation to apply the national framework agreement. JHL wants to prevent the employers undermining drivers’ pay and conditions. Read more at > JHL (FI)
The ADEDY public sector confederation organised a 24-hour strike on 19 December in its latest protest at austerity measures. It argues that the cuts in public sector are so deep that it can no longer operate effectively and deliver services to citizens. It is difficult to keep up with the "reforms" being imposed on public sector workers but this article by the EIRO industrial relations observatory reviews some of the main cuts and freezes on pay and recruitment. There is a new public sector pay structure, a weakening of the role of trade unions and restructuring of public sector organisations
Hospital doctors protested against changes to the arrangements for how they are appointed and to linking their pay to performance. The 24-hour stoppage took place from 18.30 on 11 May. The FO union is concerned about the implications of the new salary arrangements particularly with many hospitals in financial difficulty. They also see it as a step towards privatisation of public hospitals. Read more at > FOSPS
