Austria
Employees of private electricity companies see their pay and allowances increase by 2.55% as from 1 February. They also get a €200 lump sum payment and manual workers covered by the agreement will move to a new pay structure in July. The latest figure for inflation in Austria is 1.5% in the year to December 2006. This was also the average rate of inflation in 2006.
Read more at > GPA-JDP (DE)
NHS Logistics is a non-profit making operation that co-ordinates the supply of a vast range of goods to the National Health Service in the UK. The government is moving ahead with plans to sell the organisation to DHL, the German-owned logistics and delivery service. Public services union UNISON is running a campaign of opposition to the sell-off and is planning to ballot members over possible industrial action. The union has also made sure that it gets the message across to the increasing numbers of Polish workers in the NHS by printing campaigning material in Polish. [Read more at > UNISON
The EPSU affiliate GDP-DJP, representing workers in the private electricity industry, negotiated a 3.7% increase on pay and other allowances in a 12-month deal from 1 February 2008. The agreement also includes a €250 lump sum. Read more at > GDP-DJP (DE)
A pay increase of 1.78% backdated to January 2005 has been agreed in the gas and electricity sectors in Belgium according to the EIRO industrial relations observatory. A further increase of 0.4% will be implemented from October and in January 2006 the increase will be in line with the increase in prices. Read more at > EIRO
