Spain
The three public sector federations in the CCOO confederation (citizens' services, health and education) have submitted a case to the Audiencia Nacional high court in protest at the government's failure to negotiate pay increases for workers in the public sector. The right to negotiate is written into the basic statute for public sector workers and the government effectively ignored this last autumn when it said it would not negotiate over pay increases, having already made such a statement to the press. Meanwhile the FSP-UGT federation has also lodged a case against the Ministry of Health for signing collective agreements with unrepresentative nursing and professional organisations rather than the nationally recognised trade unions.
Read more at > FSC-CCOO (ES)
And at > FSP-UGT (ES)
