Two of them (from Italy and Spain) shared stories that are common to all of the Southern European countries healthcare privatization, massive layoffs, cuts in welfare, salary decreases

This Article is based on Article 1(3) of the European Social Charter and point 13 of the Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers.

All these firms have gone ahead with job cuts and even redundancies.

These include collective agreements, joint declarations, and information, training and education campaigns.

Lately several demonstrations have taken place, organized by different collectives with different beliefs .

And since January 2014, there have been constant interruptions of transport.

This indicator captures the main component of wages settled in advance through collective agreements .

Societies are inherently organizations based around applied control over individuals for collective gain.

With European export orders canceled en masse, Chinese factories are faced with the prospect of massive layoffs.

This increase reflects significantly higher collective wage agreements in both the private and the public sectors .

NATO members themselves also have much more flexibility to draw on NATO s collective assets.

The crash ignited an intense discussion about the weak and inefficient mass transportation system in the Philippines.

The casestudies encompass private and public sector companies, trade unions, collective agreements, codes of conduct and national initiatives.

However , the ECB has rejected its request to be recognised as a social partner for the purpose of concluding collective agreements .

Every worker has the right to protection against unjustified dismissal, in accordance with Union law and national laws and practices.

The minimum age of admission to employment may not be lower than the minimum school leaving age, without prejudice to such rules as may be more favourable to young people and except for limited derogations.

Readers may recall that an increase the price of minibuses sparked riots and protest in February 2008.

Various groups have mobilized in force to coordinate donations of school supplies, among them neighborhood assemblies and the 15M movement.

The measures will apply without exceptions and supersede all currently applicable lex specialis regimes , collective bargaining agreements and individual employment contracts .

The introduction of new hiring procedures and the relaxation of restrictions governing redundancies were carried out in Spain , as part of a wide ranging reform of the labour market in 1994 .

Collective punishment and targeting the innocent is forbidden in the Koran in more than 20 verses That no burdened person (with sins) shall bear the burden (sins) of another (The Star Chapter 53 38).

Currently TPM has 105 coaches and buses in Maputo for an ever increasing number of users of these services.

As communism was discarded, so was the concept of the state as an agent around which our collective interests and ambitions could be organized.

This proposed provision would therefore apply to the investment by collective investment undertakings in certain instruments issued by central banks and used in the implementation of monetary policy ( 14 ) .

Competition is a war which has major concerns fighting each other, which constantly takes the form of layoffs, factory closures, not to mention extensive waste of production capacity.

But from what I see on the Internet, as the number of collaborating organizations and collectives increases, so the feminist networks become more extensive, they're multiplying every day.

Article II 30 Protection in the event of unjustified dismissal Every worker has the right to protection against unjustified dismissal , in accordance with Union law and national laws and practices .

China s government decides that it cannot risk further strife and announces a package of measures to boost economic growth and prevent layoffs, including direct financial support for exporters and intervention in the currency markets to weaken the renminbi.

Netizens and collectives from different countries, such as Occupy Brussels and Belgium, livestreamed the protests, marches and assemblies, as well as the cultural program and diverse debates on labor, ecology, economy among others.

In this sense, the 15M movement has been a turning point in terms of supporting the calls of a part of civil society, organized in collectives, neighborhood assemblies, and local or individually led associations.

As regards domestic price pressures , the projections are based on the expectation that wage growth will increase slightly in 2008 , reflecting higher collective wage agreements , notably in the public sector .

Global Voices in Portugal invites journalists, amateur media practitioners, citizens and groups dedicated to independent online communication projects or in favour of a more active digital citizenship to a meetup in Porto on 14 December, 2013.

This Directive should not apply to the management of pension funds or managers of non pooled investments such as endowments , sovereign wealth funds or assets hold on own account by credit institutions , insurance or reinsurance undertakings .

Aiming at helping to create political, economic and social alternatives to the austerity , the debate, moderated by journalist São José Almeida, will bring together the main collectives that have mobilized massive protests in Portugal in the last years to share the defeats, achievements and challenges to the current ways of protesting .

in discussions on changes in the employment conditions . The request of USE and an external trade union ( International and European Public Services Organisation , IPSO ) for recognition as partners in the negotiation of collective labour agreements was found inadmissible by the Court of First Instance .

Economies, both crisis stricken and thriving, are failing to eliminate poverty, improve the provision of public services like education, and maintain and allocate collective goods, such as fish stocks and rain forests, effectively and equitably.

The Leader programme at its core affords an opportunity for public, private and voluntary groups to pool their collective talents so as to create long term and sustainable jobs in small and medium sized enterprises in rural areas.

However , in 2002 the Court of First Instance found the request of the USE and an external trade union , the International and European Public Services Organisation ( IPSO ) , for recognition as partners in the negotiation of collective labour agreements to be inadmissible .

But, if slow or corrupt courts mean that a worker who is wrongfully dismissed has no legal recourse, perhaps the prohibition on firing enforced by mass protests against violations, which are easily and publicly observable is the only way to protect workers from arbitrary decisions by employers.

Legal measures provide the context for more 'voluntary' actions, either at the level of an individual organisation or company in the form of equal opportunity, equal treatment or antidiscrimination policies, or at a national or sectoral level in the form of collective agreements by the social partners.

A retreating US will, in turn, guarantee the emergence of what foreign policy analyst Ian Bremmer describes as a G Zero world, in which no country will take the lead and marshal the necessary economic and political coalitions to solve collective problems.

While international treaties, national laws, more and stronger institutions, improved education, and efforts by organized religious groups to foster respect for minorities can help to ameliorate the problem, collective efforts have so far fallen woefully short.

Similar to what is happening in other places of the world, after the announcement of dismissals within the Spanish newspaper El País, the end of the print edition of United States magazine Newsweek and the news, although denied, that the British newspaper The Guardian could be considering the end of the print edition of the newspaper, this is a dark month for journalism.

of 6.4 billion in 2008 and reflects stronger domestic demand , the growing role of the euro as an international currency and long term production smoothing .

National chauvinism and religious fundamentalism are here to stay, and with them the terrorism that extremists of all stripes embrace, because both phenomena are ideally suited to the age of the individual They provide imaginary answers to personal angst, instead of political answers to collective challenges.