Estonia - Wages of miners to increase - April 27, 2011

On 25 April the oil shale production company Eesti Energia Kaevandused and the Association of Oil Shale Producers’ Trade Unions signed a new collective agreement which foresees a 5 to 11% increase in miners’ wages. Miners who have worked in the company for three to four years without a raise will receive the 11% increase, and although some benefits were excluded from the new agreement, the pay of each miner will rise by at least 5%.

English: http://news.err.ee/Economy/0c6dc4b4-a428-4cfb-9d44-9bf0c19a0f05

 

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 at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net. © ETUI aisbl, Brussels 2011.