The 28 affiliates of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Slovakia (KOZ) have started creating an offfensive answer to the efforts of the centre-right government coalition to impose draconic labour laws reforms. KOZ and its trade unions have launched a petition drive to change the eight-hour work day to one of seven and a 25-hour work week, with no reduction in salaries. The campaign already has the necessary 350,000 signatures needed to put an initiative up for vote under Slovakia’s referendum law. But the unions will continue collecting signatures, in part, to galvanise support against Prime Minister Iveta Radicova’s labour code revisions to cut worker protections.
English: http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4317-Slovak-Trade-Unions …
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