Le gouvernement irlandais étudie un nouveau plan qui sanctionnerait les employeurs qui ne négocient pas de conventions collectives de travail avec les syndicats.

The Irish government is considering a new plan that would penalise employers who fail to negotiate collective bargaining agreements with trade unions. The final report of a high-level working group set up to review collective bargaining and industrial relations recommends a ‘good faith engagement’ between employers and unions. Under the proposal, if a union represents 10% or more of a grade, group or category within a company, the employer must engage with the union and can be ordered to do so by the Court.

Le tribunal de district d’Amsterdam aux Pays-Bas a décrété que les livreurs de repas de Deliveroo sont des employés au sens de la convention collective pour le secteur du transport de fret professionnel et qu’ils doivent dès lors être rémunérés en tant qu’employés. C’est là le résultat d’une affaire lancée par le syndicat FNV en 2018. Elle concerne un groupe de 12 travailleurs employés par Deliveroo avant 2018 qui réclamaient un supplément de salaire sur base de la convention collective pour le transport de fret professionnel.

The Amsterdam District Court in the Netherlands has ruled that Deliveroo meal deliverers are employees under the terms of the collective agreement for professional freight transport and must therefore be paid as employees – the outcome of a case launched by the FNV union in 2018. It concerns a group of 12 workers employed by Deliveroo before 2018, who demanded a supplementary wage payment based on the collective agreement for professional freight transport.

En Roumanie, plus de 145.000 personnes travaillent dans les secteurs du textile, de l’habillement, du cuir et de la chaussure (THCC). Les partenaires sociaux européens et les responsables politiques se sont réunis à Bucarest pour discuter de la manière d’adapter l’industrie pour un avenir numérique et durable.

Over 145,000 people are employed in Romania’s textile, clothing, leather and footwear sectors. European social partners and policymakers have been meeting in Bucharest to discuss how to adapt the industry to a digital and sustainable future. The TCLF sectors are significant for Romania’s economy, employing 14% of workers in the manufacturing sector. The country is a major exporter, mainly to the EU, so future EU legislation aimed at ensuring only sustainable TCLF products reach the European market from 2030 will have a major impact.

Les travailleurs de la branche identité et sécurité numériques (DIS) de Thales en Pologne se sont regroupés pour créer leur propre section du syndicat ZZP avec le soutien des organisations syndicales de Thales dans toute l'Europe.

Workers at the Thales Digital Identity and Security (DIS) printworks in Poland have joined together to set up their own branch of the ZZP union, with the support of Thales trade union organisations from across Europe.

Les chauffeurs de fourgons postaux travaillant pour Posten, le service postal public en Norvège, et sa filiale Bring obtiendront des contrats à durée indéterminée suite à une importante victoire du syndicat Fagforbundet.

Van drivers working for the state-run Norwegian postal service Posten and its subsidiary Bring will get permanent contracts, following a major win by the trade union Fagforbundet. Up until now, the companies have relied on ‘self-employed’ drivers to transport parcels and goods. “The workforce has not had the security that lies in an employment relationship with, among other things, regulated working hours, pension rights, earned holiday pay and the right to sick pay,” said the head of the Post and Finance Trade Union Gerd Øiahals.

Les syndicats suédois ont décidé de travailler plus étroitement ensemble pour coordonner les négociations collectives et les revendications salariales.

A milestone agreement between Italian unions FIOM-Cgil, FIM-Cisl and UILM and Trieste-based Fincantieri, Italy’s largest shipbuilding group, sets new standards on diversity, inclusion, work-life balance and employee well-being.

Swedish trade unions have agreed to work more closely together in coordinating collective bargaining and wage claims. The LO confederation, with 14 affiliates representing mainly blue-collar workers, has worked out a formula for coordinated collective bargaining on pay in the upcoming wage round. This includes a commitment to focus on lower-paid workers, with the aim of securing higher minimum wages to underpin general percentage pay rises. Discussions continue on the specific figures to be applied.

Un accord qui fera date entre les syndicats italiens FIOM-Cgil, FIM-Cisl et UILM et Fincantieri, le plus grand groupe de constructions navales d’Italie, fixe de nouvelles normes en matière de diversité, d’inclusion, d’équilibre entre vie professionnelle et vie privée et de bien-être des employés.

Le Congrès des syndicats britanniques (TUC) soutient le Mois de l’histoire du handicap célébré au Royaume-Uni de novembre à décembre et mettant l’accent sur la lutte des personnes handicapées pour l’égalité et les droits humains dans toute la société.

The British Trades Union Congress is supporting Disability History Month, celebrated in the UK from November to December and focusing on disabled people’s struggle for equality and human rights across society.

Bosses should be prevented from discriminating against victims of revenge porn and other forms of online sexual harassment at work as part of the EU directive on combating violence against women. The European Trade Union Confederation is making the call on the international day for the elimination of violence against women amid growing evidence employers are discriminating against victims of image-based sexual harassment.  

Dans le cadre de la directive européenne sur la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes, il faut empêcher les employeurs de faire preuve de discrimination envers les victimes de vengeance pornographique et d’autres formes de harcèlement sexuel en ligne. La Confédération européenne des syndicats lance cet appel à l’occasion de la journée internationale pour l’élimination de la violence à l'égard des femmes et face au nombre croissant de témoignages probants de discrimination d’employeurs envers les victimes de harcèlement sexuel basé sur l’image.

Position de la CES sur les propositions de l’UE pour juguler la crise énergétique Position adoptée lors du Comité exécutif de la CES des 27-28 octobre 2022 Résumé des messages clés

Commenting on the European Commission’s Autumn Economic Semester, ETUC Confederal Secretary Liina Carr said: “The Commission is absolutely right to say wages need to be raised and collective bargaining strengthened in order to protect purchasing power during the cost of living crisis. The evidence is that there is no ‘secondary effect’ on inflation from wages.

The role and involvement of Social Partners in the European Semester and EU economic governance ETUC document discussed at the Executive Committee Meeting of 27-28 October 2022 The ETUC encourages the European Commission to set up a more structured and binding framework for social partners involvement in the EU Semester having respect of national practices but mandating the national governments to consult social partners according to quality criteria, and report on the effectiveness of their involvement and its results.

To: Members of the Committee of the Permanent Representatives of the Governments of the Member States to the European Union In CC: Social attachés Brussels, November 21st 2022 Dear Ambassador,

The Guide for Mobile Workers in Europe is issued by the European Trade-Union Confederation (ETUC). The ETUC coordinates 46 Interregional Trade-Union Councils (IRTUC). The IRTUCs are associations of the regional trade union organisations in the many border areas to support local, often cross-border mobile workers in defending and pursuing their social and economic interests.

Commenting on the outcome of COP 27 in Egypt, ETUC’s Ludovic Voet said “The outcome of COP27 is disappointing because the results are not up to the scale of the problem facing us. “The setting up of a fund for loss and damage, and the acknowledgement of the need for a socially just transition to a carbon-neutral economy through  social dialogue, are steps forward for coping with climate change and rebuilding international trust in the fight against  climate change. The achievements are the trees that hide the wood of climate inaction.