Work stoppages, 2010

Approximately 67 000 employees were involved in a total of 12 work stoppages in 2010. In contrast, the main settlements in 2008 had 10 stoppages involving 13 000 employees.

Most of the lost working days in 2010 were in health and social services, with a total of 28 800 employees and 276 000 lost working days. Education and construction work also had wide ranging conflicts, and lost respectively 110 000 and 59 000 working days.

Years with main settlements, such as 2010, usually have more lost working days than years with mid-term settlements. Main settlements take place every two years, which means that most of the tariff ranges enter into bi-annual tariff agreements. During the years with mid-term settlements, existing agreements are only revised, and this explains a large part of the year-on-year variations in these statistics.

Tables:

• Table 1 Work stoppages, wage earners and working days lost. 2000-2010