Czech Republic - Unions call off transport strike - March 4, 2010

The transport unions called off the strike planned for Thursday 4 March, giving parliament time to decide on their demand to cut taxes on non-wage benefits that are already part of work contracts. They did so after the caretaker cabinet and the lower house of parliament gave in to their demand to repeal a tax hike on benefits such as cheap transport fares, pointing at “the positive legislative progress so far” (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 3 February 2010).

English: http://www.forexyard.com/en/news/Czech-unions-call-off-transport-strike-2010-03-03T154627Z 

via http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bi/show_news.pl?country=Czech+Republic

This article was published in the Collective Bargaining Newsletter. It aims to facilitate information exchange between trade unions and to support the work of ETUC's collective bargaining committee. For more information, please contact the editor Maarten van Klaveren, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) M.vanKlaveren@uva.nl. You may find further information on the ETUI atwww.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2009.