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At a recent conference, UNI Europa Graphical defined its union strategy for the two years to come, until its next convention in 2015. Amending the strategy adopted in 2011, European graphical...

9 December 2013

United States: the debate over the minimum wage increase is open again

It wasn’t the workers’ mobilizations at Walmart or fast-food chains, supported by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), that brought the debate over the minimum wage increase back to...

9 December 2013

Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway terminates contract with Portuguese subcontractor because of wage dumping

Following an investigation by the 3F union journal gathering material about the violation of Danish collective agreements by Cinterex, the Portuguese company, a major subcontractor in the...

9 December 2013

Great Britain: unions win several battles to organize cleaning workers in London

Two unions are involved: the largest public sector union (and the second biggest overall union), Unison, and the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB). They don’t have the same methods but...

9 December 2013

Germany: Sitech Sitztechnik, the car part manufacturing and a Volkswagen branch, signs agreement on temporary work in line with the parent company’s temporary charter

On December 6, the IG-Metall union announced that it had reached, after “difficult and lengthy negotiations.” A collective agreement on appeal to temporary work with Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH, a...

6 December 2013

India: only 34 percent of young graduates are work-ready

According to the “India Skill Report 2014,” a wide survey on youth employability carried out among 100,000 students and 100 employers published last week, two thirds of young Indian graduates...

6 December 2013

Great Britain: Chancellor of the Exchequer announces retirement age increase and supports youth employment

At his traditional ‘autumn statement’ in Parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced, on Thursday, an increase in retirement age to receive State pension up to 69 at the end...

5 December 2013

Germany: pilot regional agreement with a 5.1 percent increase for 200,000 commerce employees

After 8 months of rotating strikes, 7 fruitless meetings and 1 bargaining night, the social partners in retail trade in Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart) reached an agreement on Thursday, December 5...

5 December 2013

Italy: the fire at the ‘lager-factory’ in Prato reveals the working conditions of Chinese immigrants in the country

Yesterday, the three Confederal unions of Tuscany did a symbolic walkout to commemorate the 7 Chinese workers who burned on December 1 in the warehouse where they worked and lived in Prato, the...

5 December 2013

Spain: Leroy Merlin in Madrid signs agreement on more work on Sunday

On November 28, the management signed, with the Fetico majority union and UGT and USO unions, an agreement extending the opening of stores until 10 pm instead of 3 pm in the Madrid area for 3...

5 December 2013

BASF inaugurates the largest work-life balance center in Germany, a sign that German firms are taking to this theme

In early November, BASF, a pioneer company in the field of work-life balance, inaugurated “LuMit,” which is the biggest work-life balance management center in the country. This achievement, which...

5 December 2013

Great Britain: “Petroleum Driver Passport” coming soon

This is the biggest consequence of the major conflict between Unite the union and the seven main fuel distribution companies in 2011 and 2012. The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition...

5 December 2013

Germany: IG-Metall enters windmill maker Enercon, a previously unapproachable stronghold

At the end of November, workers at the 9 undertakings of the biggest wind turbine maker in Germany, Enercon, elected, for the first time ever, a works council. The election – launched in...

5 December 2013

With its project of volunteer work as an alternative to short-time working, Alessi, the Italian SME, invents a new model of corporate volunteer working time

Extremely positive results for the project, “Good work – the factory for the city,” launched by Alessi on June 24 in Omegna (Verbania), Piedmont,” where the famous “Italian Design Factory” has its...

4 December 2013

EU: Commission proposes quality framework for traineeship

Today, December 4, the European Commission presented a proposal for a Council Recommendation on a Quality Framework for Traineeships (not including university curricula or specific training). ...

4 December 2013

Italy: after its historical breakthrough at the union election of Ilva in Taranto, the USB independent union is looking more and more like the union alternative

The Unione Syndicale di Base (USB), which ran for the first time for the RSU election in Ilva in Taranto – the largest factory in Italy – on November 27-29, is becoming the second largest union...

4 December 2013

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