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Ahead of his state of the nation speech, prime minister Juncker met with representatives of unions and employers separately. Both meetings were dominated by negative economic outlooks presented by the finance ministry earlier. While unions stressed the importance of holding on to the indexation of wages, employers insisted that letting go of the practice would strengthen the country’s competitiveness. Both parties expressed worries over job losses, while employers added that the outsourcing of industries would lead to the further decrease in the availability of low skill jobs. A high level industry advisory board that was recently established does not include trade union representatives.
English: http://www.wort.lu/en/view/premier-meets-labour-unions-and-employers ...
http://www.wort.lu/en/view/luxembourg-union-demands-inclusion-on-new-industry-advisory ...
Focus on indexation of wages:
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/pubdocs/2010/22/en/1/EF1022EN.pdf
For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.