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The FP-CISL public services federation has highlighted recent data from the ISTAT statistics agency showing that public sector pay fell by 1.9% in real terms last year, the biggest drop since 1995. The government has frozen public sector pay for 2012 and 2013 but FP-CISL is calling for pay negotiations and argues that it is possible to fund pay rises through reorganisation and restructuring of public services.
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The latest analysis from the WSI trade union research institute shows how pay developments in Germany have fallen behind all other EU Member States. Since 2000 real wages in Germany have fallen by 0.8%, the only EU Member State where there has been a decline. Several countries, particularly among the New Member States, recorded increases over this period of more than 30% and even seven of the EU-15 saw real wages increase by more than 10%. The report suggests that negative wage drift is a particular German problem with some locally negotiated increases falling below what is agreed at sectoral
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(March 2017) The ETUC is calling for a pay rise for workers across Europe and in the latest initiative in its campaign reveals that wages are lower now than they were eight years ago in seven EU member states while in 18 EU countries wages have grown much slower over the seven years after the crisis than in the eight years before that.In the 7 years 2009-2016 real wages (adjusted for inflation) have fallen every year by an average of 3.1 % in Greece; 1 % in Croatia; 0.9 % in Hungary; 0.7 % in Portugal; 0.6 % in Cyprus; 0.4 % in UK, and 0.3 % in Italy.
In the latest stage in its Pay Rise campaign the ETUC has published a briefing that reveals the long-term decline in wages as a share of economic output. In 1976 almost 73% of national wealth was paid in wages to working people. Today the figures is nearly 10 percentage points less – with wages making up about 63% of national wealth. The ETUC argues that increases in productivity have not been equitably shared, resulting in the growing proportion of economic output going to profits. The briefing also includes charts showing that these increased profits are flowing to shareholders while
