Denmark
While municipal and regional council workers in the FOA have voted in ballots to accept the improved three-year pay deal, the strike by nurses continues. Municipal workers accepted a 13.4% deal (up on the 12.8% employers had offered) that included a commitment to a commission to look at the issue of pay inequality. The nurses remain determined to secure a higher increase over the three years, demanding a 15% rise.
Read more at > Copenhagen Post (EN)
Nurses at the Cancer Society, supported by their union, the NSF, are continuing their strike in protest at the Society's decision to switch employer organisations to take advantage of a poorer collective agreement. This is the longest strike in the union's history (see first epsucob@NEWS report in issue 10) and the NSF says it is gaining more and more support.
Following the rejection of the mediation proposal last month, nurses have continued their strike action for higher pay. The DSR nursing union membership voted to reject the public sector deal negotiated earlier this year because it failed to address low pay in the sector. The union has been highlighting recent data to support their case including a fall in applications for nursing education to the lowest level since 2013. The union also found that 5% of nurses had left the profession last month because of low pay and overwork and that pay for overtime had cost employers over DKK 500 million in
Nurses are continuing their industrial action following the breakdown in talks over their pay and hours dispute. Nurses and midwives, who currently work a 39-hour week, are pushing for a 35-hour week in line with other health professionals. They also want a significant increase in pay rates, pointing out that on graduation the pay of nurses and midwives is €7,000 below that of chiropodists and play therapists. Read more at > INO (EN)
