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Great Britain: trade unions adjust their organization strategies in the face of challenging circumstances
With each under new leadership, three unions are currently undertaking organisational redesign programmes in an effort to re-imagine their role and stave off further decline and by increasing...
16 March 2016
Danone signs a global framework agreement on sustainable employment
On 15 March the giant food-products company together with the sector’s international union federation, the IUF, International Union of Food and Allied workers, announced the signing of a tenth...
15 March 2016
Germany: significant social conflict looms for Volkswagen, already beleaguered by the ‘Dieselgate’ affair
Already caught up in a massive scandal over tampered diesel engines, Germany’s automobile group Volkswagen risks having to deal with considerable social conflict. IG Metall has announced that...
15 March 2016
France: following recent mobilization, the government reviews its draft labor law reform
On Monday 14 March the Prime Minister unveiled a corrected version of the draft labor reform law that incorporates three major changes. Ceilings applied to compensation amounts awarded by the...
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14 March 2016
Spain: UGT’s new leader announces a union that is more transparent and more open to civil society
Josep Maria Alvarez was elected secretary general of the union confederation following a tight vote during the union’s 42nd congress. The Catalan is taking over at a difficult time for the union...
14 March 2016
New Zealand: controversy over zero hour contracts eliminated
Zero hours contracts guarantee neither the number of working hours nor the minimum pay and with the adoption of an historic law unanimously voted in by New Zealand's Parliament they have been now...
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14 March 2016
United States: the IAM machinists union renews its unionization campaign in Boeing’s South Carolina factories
Boeing’s machinists union, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) is renewing attempts to gain a presence in its North Charleston site in South Carolina. The IAM’s campaign halted in...
14 March 2016
Italy: Unicredit signs a first of its kind collective agreement over surplus executive employees
On 08 March Unicredit together with the unions signed an agreement on managing ‘surplus’ executive staff. This is the first of its kind agreement in the sector addressing executive staff...
11 March 2016
Argentina: moderate wage agreement for retailers sets the tone for other sectors
Argentina’s annual salary negotiations have started with the first agreement being concluded without a hitch. On 03 March, the retailers union the country’s largest in terms of membership (1.2...
11 March 2016
France: at least 250,000 in the streets protesting the labor law reform bill
On 09 March 2016, several hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of 130 towns and cities throughout France demanding that the labor law reform bill be withdrawn. The...
10 March 2016
Great Britain: trade unions becoming more politically active and establishing specific political funds
The Society of Radiographers has joined the ranks of those unions with a political fund to allow it engage in political campaigning. Members of the Society voted by 93% (with a 24% turnout of its...
10 March 2016
Germany: work travel distances have greatly increased (DGB Study)
In February, the German Confederation of Trade Unions published a key study on German worker mobility using data supplied by the Federal Statistics Agency, the main result of which is that...
10 March 2016
Italy: the CGIL is to present a citizen’s initiative draft law that ‘reunifies’ labor rights
The CGIL union has established a committee tasked with collecting signatures in support of a citizen’s initiative draft law that completely rewrites Italy’s Labor Code and that sees itself as an...
9 March 2016
Denmark: a marked reduction in the number of conflicts in the private sector
In 2015 the number of strike days in companies belonging to the DA, Denmark’s main employers’ confederation hit its lowest level in twenty five years. According to researchers the drop is as much...
9 March 2016
Great Britain: the Living Wage is making employers blanch
How does one absorb the costs of a mandatory rise in the minimum wage of almost 7.5% to be paid to all workers over the age of 25? This is the question bothering British businesses that remain...
9 March 2016
EU: the European Commission launches a public consultation on the European Pillar of Social Rights
What will the future “European Pillar of Social Rights” that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker last year actually look like? This is in fact the question the European Executive is...
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8 March 2016
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026