Türkiye
Public sector unions in the KESK confederation took strike action across the country on 21 December. They had a range of demands including ensuring the right to strike and to take part in collective bargaining. The unions were also calling for the end to the harassment and arrest of their members and activists as well as basic demands for decent work and better pensions.
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And at > KESK (TK)
Workers at the Ameos private, for-profit health company in the Saxony-Anhalt region are taking strike action despite the aggressive intimidation of the company's management. The union wants to negotiate a collective agreement which links workers' pay and conditions to the public sector agreement. Not only have management refused to negotiate but they sacked 14 trade union activists before Christmas and are threatening a further 800 job cuts if the union contnues its campaign. EPSU joined with ver.di in launching a labourstart campaign, targeting the company management.
The ver.di public services union is calling for solidarity for two of its members who have been summarily sacked for their trade union activities. The union has been engaged in a pay dispute with the Celenus group of rehabiliation centres which has around 20 operations in Germany employing over 2100 workers. Carmen Laue and Heike Schmidt, members of the ver.di collective bargaining committee, were sacked for distributing information on strike action. Ver.di has criticised the company for trying to intimidate workers rather than try to resolve the dispute through negotiation. The union is
Unions organising workers in public waste companies - Fp Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti and Fiadel - are planning a day of strike action on 25 May as part of a campaign to negotiate a new collective agreement. The last sector agreement expired on 31 December 2013. The unions are making the case for defending and improving workers' pay and conditions as a vital part of a key industry. Read more at > Fp-Cgil (IT)
