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The Polish army is expanding its programme of voluntary military training for citizens, introducing summer camps to try to recruit part-time soldiers in a time of uncertainty following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The "Holidays with the Army" programme is being launched for the first time this summer, the Ministry of Defence in Warsaw announced on Thursday. Men and women between the ages of 18 and 35 with Polish citizenship can sign up for 27 days of basic military training at one of 70 military bases - and receive the equivalent of $1,520. The offer is primarily aimed at high school graduate...
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German companies could generate an additional €49 billion ($52 billion) worth of goods and services in 2024 if they could meet their demands for skilled labour, according to a new study. The addition of some 573,000 qualified workers would raise production potential by about 1.1 percentage points in the current year, said the paper released by the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW). By 2027, the added value could total as much as €74 billion, its two authors calculated, using extrapolations to determine the skilled labour gap. Unlike the actual production result, the production poten...
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Argentinian trade union federation CGT brought public transport and air traffic to a standstill on Thursday in a nationwide general strike protesting against the austerity policies of libertarian President Javier Milei. With employees unable to reach their workplaces, many shops remained closed. The strike affected banks, supermarkets, schools, universities, transport, waste collection and the postal services. The government criticized the second general strike in five months. "They should stop being annoying and start working," said Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, calling the industrial ...
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The major trade unions in Argentina have called for a general strike on Thursday, for the second time in just five months. With the strike they want to protest against the harsh austerity policy of the ultra-liberal President Javier Milei. Trains, buses, underground trains and planes are expected to be at a standstill for 24 hours. Argentina is in the midst of a severe economic crisis. The inflation rate is over 280% and the country is heading for recession. South America's second-largest economy is suffering from a bloated state apparatus, low industrial productivity and a large shadow econom...
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Employees on ferry services in Greece went on strike on Wednesday, which is International Workers' Day or Labour Day, but also the middle of the Orthodox Easter holiday period. The umbrella union PNO was demanding higher wages and better health care for its members. In the major cities of Athens and Thessaloniki, public transport workers also went on strike. The conservative government and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had previously suggested that the unions postpone the strike to May 7 because many Greeks travel to their home villages and the islands at Easter and the tourist season has...
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The journalists' union USIGrai has called for a 24-hour strike at Italian public broadcaster Rai on May 6 and 7, mainly to protest against interference by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. They accused Meloni of wanting to turn the broadcaster into a "mouthpiece of the government." The background to this is the last-minute disinvitation of the writer Antonio Scurati, who wanted to read a text on the day of Italy's liberation from German occupation and fascism on April 25. During the performance, he wanted to criticize Meloni's party for its post-fascist origins. The t...
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German materials trading firm thyssenkrupp Schulte has announced plans to restructure its business and cut almost one in five full-time jobs in Germany. Locations are also to be closed and "a total of around 450 jobs are to be eliminated," the company, a subsidiary of industrial giant thyssenkrupp, announced on Wednesday. Thyssenkrupp Schulte currently has around 2,300 full-time jobs at its more than 40 locations in Germany. "In the course of the restructuring, job cuts and the closure of several locations are unavoidable," the company said. A thyssenkrupp Schulte spokesman said the company wo...
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Tesla says it is reducing the number of temporary workers at its only European plant near Berlin, after announcing plans to cut 10% of its global workforce. A spokeswoman for the company said 300 temporary workers had been given notice. "This is not a termination of Tesla employees," she said. The portal Business Insider had earlier reported that the contracts of temporary workers would not be extended. The spokeswoman told dpa: "As far as we know, our contractual partner has already been able to transfer the majority of these temporary workers to new employment with other customers." In March...
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Despite the increasingly difficult labour market, the employment of refugees from Ukraine and other key countries of origin for asylum seekers in Germany is on the rise. Daniel Terzenbach, the German government's special representative for the labour market integration of refugees, said in an interview with dpa that the so-called "job turbo," launched at the end of last year, is beginning to take effect. The job turbo is intended to help fill vacancies with refugees and speed up their integration into the labour market. "We can see that the job turbo is going in the right direction, the more i...
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Despite the increasingly difficult labour market, the employment of refugees from Ukraine and other key countries of origin for asylum seekers in Germany is on the rise. Daniel Terzenbach, the German government's special representative for the labour market integration of refugees, said in an interview with dpa that the so-called "job turbo," launched at the end of last year, is beginning to take effect. The job turbo is intended to help fill vacancies with refugees and speed up their integration into the labour market. "We can see that the job turbo is going in the right direction, the more i...
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