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The Spanish telecommunications group has renewed and updated its global agreement on its code of conduct that includes UNO guiding principles and was originally signed by the unions in 2000. The...

2 February 2015

United States: American Airlines concludes a “generous” wage agreement setting up the basis for better integration of the two recently merged companies

Management at American Airlines - recently formed after the merger of American Airlines and US Airways signed a 5-year pay agreement with the Allied Pilots Associations (APA), which promotes...

2 February 2015

Great Britain: Unite union announces a significant donation to Labour’s May election campaign

Financing this May’s general election is a challenge for the indebted opposition Labour party. The Unite union has started the donation ball rolling with a promise of £1.5m and perhaps more later...

30 January 2015

Sweden: worker safety is a government priority

Last year almost 50 employees met their deaths. For both Byggnads (construction workers union) and If Metall (metal workers union) who have for a long time been sounding alarm bells, this recent...

30 January 2015

Japan: unions are demanding a minimum 2% rise in wages for 2015

Japan’s traditional annual pay negotiations (Shunto) started on January 29. The main union confederation, Rengo has demanded a minimum 2% rise in salaries for 2015. Against a backdrop of 20 years...

30 January 2015

Germany: IG Metall mobilises thousands of employees for initial warning strikes

IG Metall issued the first warning shot in the collective negotiations concerning the metal industry, which comprises 3.7 million employees. Just after midnight, when the social clause prohibiting...

29 January 2015

SCOR: signs a charter on professional equality with the EWC

On January 29, the reinsurance group together with the Common European Companies Committee (SCOR comprises three European Companies – Societas Europeae) signed a charter on professional equality. ...

29 January 2015

France: the complaint filed by French NGOs against Auchan for misleading commercial practices, following the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, has been dismissed

At the end of January, the prosecutor’s office in Lille dismissed the complaint lodged against Auchan (French supermarket chain) for non-respect of its ethical commitments in the Rana Plaza...

29 January 2015

Germany: renewed discord within the grand coalition government over the minimum wage

Barely four weeks after Germany’s historic move to introduce a universal national minimum wage of 8.5 euros per hour, the parliamentary Christian-Democrat group, the CDU/CSU, unanimously adopted...

29 January 2015

United States: California adds another level of social protection for contract workers

In California the final employer of contract workers will now be liable to those workers to respect working time, pay their wages, and also compensation insurance cover, in addition to their...

29 January 2015

Great Britain: the GMB and Unite unions intervene to save fracking

Although during the summer British unions had argued for the implementation of a united opposition to the controversial issue of shale gas activities, the country’s largest union Unite, together...

28 January 2015

Turkey: an all out metal workers strike is set to begin on January 29

Birleşik Metal-İş the Turkish metals union federation and affiliated with IndustriALL Global Union has announced strike action for the metals sector for January 29. Strikers will protest the...

28 January 2015

Italy: a majority of Telecom Italia workers have rejected a restructuring agreement for its Caring Services division that was seen as a potential means of remote monitoring

More than half of Telecom Italia’s workers who voted, have rejected an agreement between the company and the trade unions; SLC-CGIL, Fistel-Cisl, UIlcom-UIl, to restructure the Caring Services...

28 January 2015

Great Britain: Brent Council subsidizes resident companies to pay staff the London living wage

Labour controlled councils in London are following the lead of Glasgow city council and thirty other Labour controlled councils in offering companies incentives to become ‘living wage employers’...

27 January 2015

The “modernisation of social dialogue” in France: an agreement was always highly unlikely

On January 22 the French social partners left the negotiation table without concluding any agreement on reforms to the current system of employee representation (see article n°8840). Four months...

26 January 2015

Greece: the new Syriza government looks to restore labor law and collective negotiations

The radical left Syriza party has just won an historic victory and may have to align with the Greek independent sovereign party to form a government. In September, Alexis Tsipras the Syriza party...

26 January 2015

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