Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by HEARSE Phil
An unprecedented strike, writes Phil Hearse, by 170,000 public sector workers across 15 unions in Northern Ireland took place on January 16 over the UK government’s refusal to pay parity wages with other UK workers, spotlighting a growing crisis in local governance and public sector funding (…)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Despite getting their last pay packet in November 2022 and only receiving sporadic state benefits since then, there are over 200 workers at the GKN factory in Florence continuing the struggle to save and reconfigure their factory. There have been very few exemplary struggles like this in recent (…)
, by ANDERSEN Nina Trige
MY WORK / EU parliamentarian and former trade union leader Marianne Vind has written about the problems on the European labor market in the 21st century. It could have been an important book. It just isn’t.
It has been at least 17 years since the social democratic MEP Marianne Vind actually (…)
, by SARTZEKIS Andreas
Since his election in June 2019, Mitsotakis has been attacking young people and workers, taking advantage of their resentment of the four years of Syriza and the division on the left.
Despite the brutal anti-social and repressive measures, the struggles have never stopped since 2019, and even (…)
, by SCHAFER Jakob / SCHAEFER Jakob
In Germany, price rises are particularly high, the rate has been exceeding 8 per cent for months. According to the economic research institute WSI, which is close to the trade unions, real wages have already fallen sharply over the past three years and the increase in the cost of living (…)
, by SIMMEL Jonathan
On 1 March, collective agreements in the private sector will be renewed in Denmark. The top discussion, including in the mass media, is whether Denmark is heading for the first general strike in the private sector since 1998.
There was already a high risk of conflict last autumn. In the (…)
, by BRULEZ Sébastien
Slowly but surely, Belgium is entering into crisis. Inflation, especially in energy prices, is hitting the working classes hard. Mobilizations are multiplying but a coordinated and combative response, capable of making the government and employers tremble, is lacking.
On 9 November 2022, a (…)
, by Karmina (SK)
Negotiations between the Slovak government and the Medical Trade Union Association (LOZ) ended on Saturday with an agreement, the details of which are not yet known. According to initial statements from both sides, all the union’s demands should be largely met, from the top-up of hospital (…)
, by SARTZEKIS Andreas
17 November 1973 is one of the key dates in contemporary Greek history and in the country’s political and social struggles: following the countless acts of resistance to the fascist regime of the colonels’ dictatorship (1967-1974), which was put in place at the instigation of the CIA, hundreds (…)
, par Anticapitalistas, BFS/MPS, Ecosocialist.scot, Ensemble ! (MAGE), FIN (Norway), ISO (Allemagne), NPA / NPA l’Anticapitaliste, SAP-Antikapitalisten / Gauche anticapitaliste, Sinistra Anticapitalista, Socialist Resistance (Britain), Socialistisk Politik, solidaritéS, SPQI (Portugal) , Toupeira Vermelha, TPT & Magazine « 4 » - Greek Section of FI
For several months now, strike movements and popular mobilizations have been developing in Europe – both inside and outside the European Union - to resist the explosion in the cost of living.
The price of energy, food, rents, transport has increased over the past two years in all countries, (…)
, by ALALUF Mateo
Belgium is no exception to the wave of strikes in this hot European social autumn.
The general strike decided by the three trade union organizations - the socialist FGTB (General Federation of Labour of Belgium), the Christian Democrat CSC (Confederation of Christian Trade Unions) and the (…)
, by FERNANDEZ Brais
After months of discussion at discreet negotiating tables, the government, led in this case by Yolanda Díaz, CCOO and UGT trade unions and the CEOE (Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales – the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations) announced an agreement to readapt the (…)
, by MULLER Victor
On Sunday, 26 September 2021 a large majority (56%) voted in favour of the socialization of big real estate groups in Germany’s capital, Berlin, in a popular initiative referendum.
This referendum followed a democratic self-organised campaign that has already been going on for several years (…)
, by ATKINSON Sophie
Across Europe, worker-led delivery collectives are springing up to reclaim control from corporate platforms
Cristina González did a lot of waiting in 2018. Back then, the 29-year-old was a courier for the Spanish food delivery platform Glovo in her Basque home town, Vitoria-Gasteiz. She talks (…)
, by REPECKAITE Daiva
Like many workers in Malta affected by lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert (not his real name) has been furloughed. But while work is important to him, home is where he feels most comfortable. There, Robert’s wheelchair fits everywhere he needs to go. He no longer needs to (…)
, by NSZZ Solidarność, OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza
On March 20 we took part in a teleconference with Amazon. The company presented to us its proposal of a bonus of 4 złoty before taxes (0.61 euro net) for every hour worked between March 15 and April 30. Amazon was not open to negotiating the bonus amount or conditions.
We demanded the (…)
, by TAMMA Paola
Unions are calling for a halt to all non-essential production to ensure safety and sanitation of workplaces.
Italy’s coronavirus epidemic has triggered nationwide strikes running from shipbuilders in Liguria in the north to steelworkers in Puglia in the south, forcing the government to open (…)
, by KORSIKA Anej
It’s a seller’s market!
I speak of the Slovenian Labour Force Market, “sellers” being workers selling their labour power. Statistically speaking, the country’s unemployment rate is at a record low level: 7,2 percent as of September. Compared to almost twice that number at the peak of the last (…)
, by STAUNTON Bethany
A conviction that lies at the very heart of international trade unionism is that a worker is a worker, wherever he or she is from. But how can unions put this principle into action when it comes to migrant workers ? With over 22 million non-EU citizens living in the EU in 2018 (according to (…)
, by CASSIDY Barney
Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff once employed 35,000 people writes Barney Cassidy. Its workforce was the aristocracy of the city’s working class. They were heavily unionised and well paid by local standards. They were also enthusiastic participants in every major sectarian pogrom in 19th and (…)
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