Non-manual workers

Modern transformation of industries has considerably changed the occupational pattern of the workforce. Non-manual workers grow in number and need to be better represented in unions. IndustriALL develops specific strategies to unionize and improve conditions of these workers.

Carol Bruce
e-mail: cbruce@industriall-union.org
tel. +41 22 304 18 44
Fax: +41 22 304 1841

Non-manual workers

Contract and agency labour: even engineers earn less

09.04.2013 

Even highly qualified people in technical jobs are employed as contract workers and assigned to other companies. Often they earn up to one-fifth less than permanent employees.

32,000 Indian steel workers organized since 2010

14.03.2013 

Through IndustriALL Global Union’s organizing project known as “More members, fewer unions” two Indian affiliates, the INMF and SMEFI, organized over 32,000 new members between 2010 and 2012.

IndustriALL Europe holds white-collar meeting in Paris

11.03.2013 

IndustriAll Europe organized the special working party for the white-collar group on 28 February in Paris, hosted by CFE-CGC. It was attended by unions from Sweden, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Denmark and Norway.

Stop austerity for executive staff

24.01.2013 

While the minimum wage went up by 2.3 per cent this year and the social security ceiling by 1.8 per cent, minimum salaries for engineers and executives in the metalworking industries in France continue to stagnate. They will not stop regressing until a plan running over a couple of years is put in place starting this year which raises minimum salaries by 3 per cent.

Non Manual Workers Steering Group Meeting

The non-manual working group was held on 25 October 2012 at Unionen office in Stockholm and attended by participants from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Norway, Spain and Sweden.

25.10.2012

Non-manual workers

Modern transformation of industries has considerably changed the occupational pattern of the workforce. Non-manual workers grow in number and need to be better represented in unions. IndustriALL develops specific strategies to unionize and improve conditions of these workers.

Carol Bruce
e-mail: cbruce@industriall-union.org
tel. +41 22 304 18 44
Fax: +41 22 304 1841

Upcoming events

May 2013

2-3

Alcoa Network Meeting

Pittsburgh, USA

14-15

Coordination of Trade Union Networks and Implementation of Global Framework Agreements in the chemical and related industries in Asia-Pacific

Bangkok, Thailand

14

IndustriALL Regional Women's Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean

Buenos Aires, Argentina

15-16

IndustriALL Regional Conference in Latin America and the Caribbean

Buenos Aires, Argentina

21-22

IndustriALL Regional Mining Conference

Santiago, Chile

22-23

Trade Union Consultative Conference on Developing a Labour Agenda for Socially Sustainable Development in the Global South

Santiago, Chile

27-28

Caterpillar network meeting

Esher, United Kingdom

28-29

IndustriALL Executive Committee Meeting

Frankfurt, Germany

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