Europe
Radio Labour is provides a new source of news on international labour movement developments. Its latest bulletins include a report on demonstrations by public service trade unions in the UK. The website allows you to download the news broadcasts and well as the scripts of each item.
Read more at > Radio Labour (EN)
The Global Union Research Network (GURN) has set up new web pages on its site dedicated specifically to information and analysis on collective bargaining. The information is co-ordinated by the researchers at the ETUI-REHS research institute but includes data and links on collective bargaining around the world. Read more at > GURN (EN)
Following their meeting of 17 March, EPSU’s affiliated trade unions in government and EU administration express their solidarity with Antoine Deltour who accomplished an ethical duty in passing on to a journalist secret rulings on tax breaks signed by the tax authorities of Luxembourg.
The vpod/SSP public services union has lodged a complaint over the right to strike with the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The case involves employees of the Neunberger Hospital who took strike action at the end of 2012 in protest at the decision of the Hospital's new owner, Genolier, to end the collective agreement and worsen employment conditions. The hospital sacked the striking workers and their dismissal was upheld by the courts despite the fact that the right to strike is in the constitution and Switzerland has also signed up to the key ILO conventions 87 and 98 on the right to
