Laboratory workers and cleaners have both managed to secure improved pay following separate strike action against their employer, the Geneva University Hospital (HUG). Both groups of workers felt that they had lost out when pay structures had been introduced or revised in the past and both will now have better opportunities to move up the pay structure. A joint committee will also look at staffing and career development issues for both groups of workers. Employers have also withdrawn their threats of disciplinary action against striking activists (See also this Collective Bargaining Newsletter Year 4 November 2011).
English: http://www.epsu.org/cob/451
German: http://www.vpod.ch/aktuell/nachrichten/ansicht/article/genfer-unispital ...
French: http://www.ssp-vpod.ch/actualites/nouvelles/ansicht/article/fin-des ...
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 or the communications officer of the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.