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Netherlands: transformation of the FNV trade union confederation is well underway
The country’s strongest trade union the FNV is going through a period of transition, ever since the deep crisis in 2011, which revealed internal weaknesses and which led the organisation to ...
8 October 2014
Prosegur: UNI Global has filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate recent attacks on unionists in both Colombia and Peru
On October 7, a delegation from UNI Global led by General Secretary Philip Jennings filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to denounce human rights violations that may have...
8 October 2014
Argentina: unions and the parliamentary opposition view the new Civil Code as a threat to workers’ rights
On October 1, Argentina’s parliamentary majority voted for the unification of the former Civil and Commercial Codes, considered “too archaic and not relevant to Argentina’s modern society”. The...
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7 October 2014
United States: a trade union for the Mercedes plant in Alabama
After spending time unionizing the Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga in Tennessee the United Auto Workers are now setting their sights on the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama be opening a local...
7 October 2014
Canada: the Ontario Ministry of Labour blitzes illegal internships
Unpaid internships are increasingly widespread in Canada and are for the most part totally illegal. Following a series of press reports about businesses using this unlawful practice, the Ontario...
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7 October 2014
Italy: agreement in the metal industry to transpose changes in the reform over short-term contracts
Both union signatories of the national metal industry collective agreement, FIM-Cisl and Uilm-Uil announced that they and the employers bodies Federmeccanica and Assistal had signed an agreement...
6 October 2014
Unlimited vacation time: dream or nightmare for human resource departments?
‘Unlimited vacation’ is coming into vogue in the U.S where 1% of businesses have already implemented the system (‘unlimited vacation’ is a shorthand version for a company policy that allows its...
3 October 2014
Norway: a new LO trade union for engineers to attract more graduates from higher education
Having been three years in the making, the trade union LO Ingeniør got officially up and running on 8 September. Five separate trade unions belonging to LO (The Norwegian Confederation of Trade...
3 October 2014
Germany: showdown around “One company, one trade union” escalating after a 91% vote by Deutsche Bahn train drivers for an all-out strike
A juncture has been reached in the dispute between the German train drivers' union (GDL) and Deutsche Bahn management. 91% of the 27,000 GDL members employed by DB supported shifting from a...
2 October 2014
Great Britain: Political party conferences announce policies to woo voters at the next general election set for May 2015
With the next general election in May 2015 only eight months away, the last round of annual conferences of the main political parties has taken on an added importance as they begin to lay out...
2 October 2014
EU: feedback from the ETUI-ETUC conference on ‘Europe at a Crossroads’
Taking up the baton of European renewal from the new European Commission and its President Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the European Trade Union Institute...
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2 October 2014
Germany: the Government is placing employee aspirations at the center of its policy on working time
The “Parental Plus Salary”, a reform of the ‘Law on the reduction of working time to allow for care of dependents’, the right for people on part-time work to return to full time work’… the German...
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2 October 2014
Sweden: the new prime minister wants to reform unemployment insurance and training, and to safeguard the labor market
Unions are delighted with the social-democrat parliamentary election win and the nomination of the former President of the IF Metall union as Prime Minister. Elected on September 14, the Prime...
2 October 2014
EU: Commissioner-designate in charge of Employment and Social Affairs, Marianne Thyssen has laid out her roadmap
Today October 1, Marianne Thyssen (a Flemish Centrist), Commissioner-designate responsible for Employment and Social Affairs gave a hearing to the European Parliament. Reflecting her partisanship...
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1 October 2014
Denmark: overall union membership numbers rise but they still decline in some of the traditional unions
Gone are the days of declining union membership in Denmark. Over the past four years membership has risen from 67% to 69%. Union members continue to show a preference for joining “yellow” unions...
1 October 2014
Argentina: the Government acts to combat violence at work
The Government is facing a rise in conflict at work and an increase in job insecurity. It will implement a national network to fight against violence at work whilst Parliamentary members and...
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1 October 2014
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On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
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14 October 2025
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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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France: construction sector turns to long-term partial activity scheme
Amid the ongoing economic crisis hitting France’s construction sector, social partners in the public works industry (350,000 employees) signed an agreement at the end of October enabling companies...
21 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025