News update as of March 7, 2019

On the menu: Spanish and Belgian female workers set for strike action on 08 March, on 06 March, Unilever and the EWC signed an agreement on the future of work, Ceska Posta raises salaries by 10% while lowering the number of managers by 15%.
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Spanish and Belgian female workers set for strike action on 08 March. Spain’s female workers were first to go on strike on International Women’s Day on 08 March 2018 (c.f. article No.10592) with five million answering that call. This year a hundred or so feminist organizations have called for a re-run of last year’s events and once again have support of the UGT and CCCO trade union bodies, which have called for a two-hour work stoppage. This Friday 08 March may also see Belgian females stopping

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