Switzerland - Dispute with ISS continues - September 22, 2010

The VPÖD/SSP union is continuing its long-running dispute with the ISS multinational over the collective agreement covering workers at Geneva airport. The company says that a consultation with employees has produced a majority in favour of a new collective agreement negotiated with a newly formed union called Push. The VPÖD/SSP has challenged the outcome arguing that employees were in a difficult position as the new collective agreement was better than the individual terms that employees had been offered but worse than the collective agreement negotiated by VPÖD/SSP and terminated by the company in the summer. The city of Geneva has called upon ISS to stop wage dumping (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 3 July-August 2010).

English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/379#a6850

French: http://www.ssp-vpod.ch/actualites/nouvelles/ansicht/article ...

German: http://www.vpod.ch/aktuell/nachrichten/ansicht/article/stadt-genf …

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.