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Finnish paperworkers dispute turns dirty as managers try to bust strike
Pressure placed on the Finland Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) has ratcheted up as a two-week strike by Proliitto – representing 1,000 white-collar, technical, and clerical workers – ended at 20 workplaces of leading Finnish paper producer, UPM. See Print Week … Continue reading
Skills shortages prompt 4% pay deal in German chemical industry
Germany’s giant IGBCE chemical union and the BAVC employers’ association have agreed on an above inflation wage deal for 550,000 employees of 4.1% over 15 months. The details are: for the first month of the agreement, employees forego an increase … Continue reading
European unions mobilise for social progress
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and its six Hungarian member organisations (LIGA, ASZSZ, SZEF, ESZT, MSZosz and MOSz) have called a Euro-demonstration today, 9th April in Budapest, where the European Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) will meet during … Continue reading
Keith Ewing – Workers’ rights are under threat across the world
In UK, US and Europe, the depletion of collective bargaining threatens workers’ economic security and their human rights. Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis on this day in 1968. He was there to support striking sanitation workers, fighting … Continue reading
LCDTU Blog
From Barry Camfield at the Liaison Committe For The Defence Of Trade Unions You may have noticed that the LCDTU website has changed. However, you will find all the information published on the original website still available at the following … Continue reading
EU competitiveness pact ‘could fundamentally alter wage bargaining’
Taken from the Wall Street Journal – written by Matthew Dalton. The ETUC is opposing as the Competitive Pact as a “dead end”. The direction of social Europe is now being hi-jacked by Germany and France as Julian Priestly outlines … Continue reading
Unite news-round up: Cadbury Law; Lloyds and BAe Systems
Unite, has made further calls or legislation to protect British companies from ‘predatory takeovers’, such as Kraft’s controversial buying of Cadbury in 2010 and a recent bid by a French print company Oberthur for De La Rue the UK banknote … Continue reading
ETUC – Attacking collective bargaining is a dead end.
John Monks the ETUC General Secretary in outlining the ETUC’s opposition the EU so-called ‘Competitiveness Pact’ has warned that attacking collective bargaining will not help re-balance and re-launch the EU economy. “The rules of the single currency have been seriously … Continue reading
Attacks on Mexican unions on EU Parliament agenda
On March 2nd, a delegation from the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) and International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) met with Mr. Cortes Lastra, Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee at the European Parliament in … Continue reading
Mexico: Defend trade union rights – February 14th to 19th
Five years ago an explosion at Grupo México’s Pasta de Conchos coal mine killed 65 miners. The bodies of 63 of the 65 miners remain buried (view Pasta de Conches memorial here) and the Mexican government has failed to investigate … Continue reading