Alarm action against social dumping!
On 9 December 2013, European Trade Union Federations mobilised in front of the European Council building against the current proposals on the enforcement of the posting of workers Directive.
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This is not just any strike: this is a Marks and Spencer strike
More than 2,000 Marks and Spencer’s employees took industrial action across Ireland on Saturday December 7 after management unilaterally decided to change their working conditions.
In late September, Marks and Spencer began negotiations with Mandate and SIPTU regarding the closure of four stores in Tallaght, Naas, Dun Laoghaire and Mullingar, with the loss of 180 jobs.
In addition, other cost saving proposals included a reduction in the premium for working on Sundays and public holidays, the elimination of the Christmas bonus and cuts to the number of section managers.
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UA Zensen / UNI MLC - Working in Partnership to Grow Companies and Unions
“We hope that unions can adopt a democratic industrial relation with their companies so that they can secure the decent work agenda based on labour laws,” said Hiroshi Yamakawa, Assistant General Secretary of UA Zensen. “The union and management first need to have mutual respect and stand on equal footing so that unions can be free from subordinate workplace positions and for democratic industrial relations to be possible.”
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Workers of CLICO stand up in Trinidad
Workers of CLICO and British American Insurance Companies picketed the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance in Port of Spain Trinidad on December 2 and followed this up on December 3 by picketing the CLICO office in the city.
These workers are victims of the takeover of the companies by the State in 2009 in the wake of the crash of the Lawrence Duprey /CLICO empire which threatened to destroy the entire financial sector of the country. The Banking Insurance and General Workers Union, which represents the CLICO workers have issued the following statement on the issue.
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Syndicom Congress: New pay deal in Swiss Post
The Swiss media and communications affilate, syndicom, opened their first post-merger congress this morning at the Beaulieu Expo Center in Lausanne. The congress aims to take up a number of important items for the union, including developing a plan for union growth, strengthening collective agreements and laying out the union's political position during an important moment in Swiss politics.
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Mandela: The world's number one citizen
On the occasion of the sad passing away of Nelson Mandela, UNI Global Union’s General Secretary Philip Jennings said the father of a nation has been lost.
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Kenya Security Union delivers message to Parliament
The UNI affiliate, KNPSWU, organises march on Parliament and cavalcade in Nairobi.
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UNI Deputy Secretary addresses UN Business and Human Rights Forum
Christy Hoffman, UNI Deputy Secretary, addressed participants at the UN forum on business and human rights in Geneva on Wednesday. At a session to consider how "multi stakeholder initiatives" can advance human rights, Hoffman said that the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety is different from past efforts in some critical ways.
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Portugal privatises national postal service
The Portuguese government has confirmed today that 70% of the national post service share capital (105m shares) will be floated on the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
The UNI Europa Post & Logistics committee, which collectively represents the more than two million postal workers in Europe, stands in solidarity today with our colleagues in the Portuguese trade unions SNTCT and Sindetelco as they confront the privatisation of CTT Correios Portugal.
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Commerce Social partners from Turkey, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia discuss enforcement of the EU social acquis and ILO Conventions
Commerce social partners discuss measures to improve social dialogue
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