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Spain: unions reject flexible hours demanded by superstores
Employers launched consultation period. A few days ago, the national court issued a ruling giving unions satisfaction and forcing superstores to recognize the right to weekly rest, at the rate of...
2 July 2012
Norway: new pay system for cargo carriers
On June 11, NHO Transport (Norwegian transport firms) and Norges Lastebileier-Forbund (the Norwegian Haulers' Association) on the one hand and the Transportarbeiderforbund (Transport Workers) and...
2 July 2012
Spain: labor reform permanently adopted
The Parliament permanently adopted the new “Emergency Act for the Reform of the Labor Market,” with the support of the people’s party and of the Catalonian (CiU) and Basque (PNV) nationalist...
29 June 2012
Great Britain: Unison and GMB unions get closer before merger
Combining the membership of the second and third biggest unions will easily outstrip that of Unite which is currently the biggest union with 1,414,000 members. The new alliance between Unison and...
29 June 2012
United States: Americans keep new health care law
Obamacare, the nickname given to the health insurance system voted in the US in 2010 (see our dispatch No. 100249), passed the Supreme Court test. The judges in charge of the case at the request...
29 June 2012
Italy: permanent adoption of the labor market reform
Prime Minister Mario Monti did it. On June 28, he went to the European summit with the labor market reform approved (see our dispatch No. 120227). Meanwhile, Labor Minister Elsa Fornero gave an...
28 June 2012
Germany: IG-Metall union sends anti-stress draft regulation to government
With soaring sick leaves with mental causes, the IG-Metall metalworkers' union once again called on Ursula von der Leyen, CDU Minister of Employment, to adapt the legal framework to new labor...
27 June 2012
France: CSR criteria in the new 2012-2014 profit-sharing agreement at La Poste
Quality of life. Like the previous agreement, this agreement will apply to all Post workers regardless of their function, “thus giving full meaning to the concept of fair distribution and...
27 June 2012
Germany: Siemens gives up to EUR 500 a month to come back to work after childbirth
A typically German issue.
For several months, a political/cultural trial of strength has been dividing
the German government and the two parties to the conservative union – Merkel’s...
27 June 2012
Great Britain: Unite creates GBP25m strike fund
While this is a significant development for the future, it was also disclosed that Unite under new general secretary, Len McCluskey, had spent between £3m-£5m on industrial disputes in the last...
27 June 2012
Netherlands: the DNV (former FNV) announces social turmoil in September
The former FNV, renamed De Nieuwe Vakbeweging (DNV, new federation) on June 23, is getting ready for social unrest in September. With the legislative elections approaching (September 12), it has...
27 June 2012
United States: new contract between machinists’ union and Lockheed Martin
After over two months on strikes, the association of machinists at Lockheed Martin accepted a two-tier pension system in Forth Worth, Texas. The management of Lockheed Martin and the...
27 June 2012
Germany: Verdi union gets better working and pay conditions for the employees of Deutsche Bank’s subsidiaries
More time off, more money and a shorter workweek. Verdi claims that about 2,000 employees from 5 Deutsche Bahn service companies – PBC Services GmbH (account management), Kredit Service GmbH...
26 June 2012
United States: Supreme Court defends employees’ rights to not pay for unions’ political activities
In the United States, in businesses covered by a collective agreement, employers and unions may decide to impose a union (closed or union shop) or, without forcing them to join, having them take...
26 June 2012
Walmart: new union alliance on the African continent
On June 19-20, in Johannesburg, South Africa, UNI Global Union launched the UNI Africa Walmart Union Alliance. Unions are denouncing an expansion strategy that is detrimental to local employment...
25 June 2012
EU: interview of Alejandro Cercas, Member of the European Parliament and author of the legislative initiative report on restructurings
Alejandro Cercas. We used a new article of the Lisbon Treaty, article 225. Before that, the Parliament couldn’t take an initiative and we could only give opinion on the European Commission’s. The...
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