The all-out strike in the Ministry of Justice continues but trade unions are angry that the ministry is trying to intimidate workers by announcing that it plans to investigate possible breaches of the rules that require a minimum level of service during strike action. Trade unions argue that they have scrupulously kept to the minimum service requirements. The strike is over significant differentials in pay between current Ministry of Justice employees and those transferred to the regions.
Read more at > FSAP-CCOO (ES)
Unions condemn minister's scare tactics
More like this
Employer uses divide and rule tactics
After a six-month break in negotiations, the GDF-Suez energy company has returned to the bargaining table with a proposal that all new starters would be on a different collective agreement. Ver.di has rejected the idea, emphasising that a company agreement covering only new starters would leave them in a very weak position and make it very difficult for the union to mobilise across the company to defend their pay and conditions. The company also wants to apply a 40-hour week on the new starters rather than the current agreement for 38 hours. [Read more at > ver.di (DE)->http://energie-bergbau
Union shows red card to employers' stalling tactics
Services union ver.di has criticised the BDE private waste sector employers for playing for time in the current negotiations. The union’s main demands are a 3% pay increase plus the abolition of the two lowest pay grades. Ver.di is particularly concerned that employers are talking about new employees starting on 80% of the normal rate and argues that the risk would be that these lower rates would be made permanent and so create a two-tier pay system. [Read more at > ver.di (DE)->https://ver-und-entsorgung.verdi.de/abfallwirtschaft/tarifarbeit_tarifpolitik/private_abfallwirtschaft_1/tarifrunde