EIROnlineThe European Industrial Relations Observatory (EIRO) is a monitoring instrument offering news and analysis on European industrial relations. Its aim is to collect, analyse and disseminate high-quality and up-to-date information on key developments in industrial relations in Europe. It aims primarily to serve the needs of national and European level organisations of the social partners, governmental organisations and EU institutions.Trade unions in healthcare threaten general strike- February 26, 2007 In an effort to improve the healthcare system in Romania, the Sanitas Federation representing healthcare workers put forward a number of demands to the Ministry of Health to increase wages and the health budget. Although most of the demands made by trade union members in the healthcare system in 2006 were granted, the issue of promoting a normative act approving the negotiated pay rise as of 1 January 2007 had yet to be resolved. The trade union warned that if the government failed to grant the.http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2006/11/articles/ro0611039i.html Growing concern over labour shortage due to migration- February 19, 2007 The extent of skilled labour migration from Romania to other labour markets of the European Union is a pressing topic on the agenda of trade unions. The unions share the concerns of employer organisations and government representatives at the growing shortages in the domestic labour market. The situation is particularly acute in the construction sector, where labour shortages have been estimated to be as much as 50% by one employer organisation, corresponding to about 300,000 workers.http://www.eiro.eurofound.eu.int/2006/11/articles/ro0611049i.html |