Waste employers’ offer angers union - Germany - Verdi has reacted angrily to the latest proposals from the BDE private waste employers’ organisation. The union had called for a 3% pay increase backdated to May 2010 but the employers’ have offered nothing for an eight-month period and just 1% from January 2011. Verdi is also concerned about the employers’ aims to introduce a lower level pay structure which would mean some workers stuck on pay rates equivalent to those from the mid-1990s
Unions take action to defend employment conditions – France - Unions at water services group Veolia took industrial action earlier this month in protest at plans by the company to change their employment conditions from January 2011. In June this year Veolia won the 12-year contract for water supply for the Ile de France region in controversial circumstances. The unions, led by the CGT and FO, say that they currently benefit from pay and conditions in line with civil servants in the Paris region but will lose out if Veolia goes ahead with the changes next year.
Netherlands – Care Sector - After lengthy and difficult negotiations unions have managed to negotiate a new collective agreement covering around 400,000 workers in nursing care and care homes. The two-year deal runs to March 2012 and includes a 0.5% pay increase from 1 September 2010 plus a lump sum in December worth 0.6% of annual salary. There are then two increases of 0.75% in 2011 in January and July with the end-of-year bonus increased by 0.5%. Employers commit to allocating 2% of the paybill to training and additional leave provisions for older workers are retained along with new possibilities to save hours for younger workers
Extract from and more at http://www.epsu.org/r/121
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