Last week during the EU summit, the Portuguese Union, CGTP-Intersindical, organised the biggest demonstration in Lisbon in 20 years. How did they manage to demonstrate more or less unnoticed and without being mentioned by the media, asks Thomas Rupp, coor...
The Union of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (ZSSS) has criticised an increase in funding by the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs for workers who want to become self-employed. The ZSSS claims that the ministry is promoting a precarious form of work, and that the ministry needs to focus on training for self-employed people. It also argues that the ministry is allowing the practice of bogus self-employment, which is rife in the construction sector, to go unchecked.
La directive sur le secret des affaires pose des premiers jalons. Mais la création d’un véritable statut des lanceurs d’alerte risque de se faire attendre.
In February 2011, three European-level trade union federations representing manufacturing workers agreed on a joint strategy to achieve stronger worker involvement in multinational companies. This joint approach has been triggered at least in part by a revised European Works Council directive, which came into force in June. The three federations want companies to find better ways to anticipate and manage change to minimise the negative impact it can have on employees.