The trade unions OGBL and LCGB mobilized staff representatives and activists for an awareness action on 3 December 2024 in protest against government plans to reform the collective bargaining systems. The government reform plans include the following elements: reducing the mandatory content of CAs to only the most basic provisions, stripping away key protections and benefits typically guaranteed, allowing collective agreements that are less favourable than existing standards set by the Labour Code, thereby enabling employers to bypass these minimum protections, and most notably, permitting the negotiation of collective agreements without union representation, undermining the role of unions in securing fair terms and conditions for workers. With this mobilization the trade union aim to defend the hard-won benefits and protections that this reform threatens to dismantle.
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