Three national trade union confederations are concerned about the government’s wide-ranging programme, which is planning to impose restrictions on sympathetic and political strike action, a € 200 fine for individual strikers when a strike is found to be illegal and a dramatic increase in fines on trade unions for illegal action. It is also likely that further restrictions will be imposed on taking action in health and social services. The confederations are unhappy about the intervention in collective bargaining implied by setting wage increases in the export sector as a maximum in the conciliation process, so limiting the scope to address low pay in more domestically oriented sectors dominated by female worker.
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