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Ferrovial: international framework agreement signed with the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI)
This agreement contains the commitment to comply with union freedom and the right to collective bargaining, with a commitment beyond neutrality since it reads that the company will “adopt a...
23 May 2012
Italy: 20th Istat survey reports on ‘rough patch’ for Italian economy
Istat CEO Enrico Giovanni presented the latest annual report on May 22, explaining this ‘rough patch’ for the country’s economy. Unlike last year (see our dispatch No. 110379), he says that...
23 May 2012
Spain: last-ditch stand for unions against the labor market reform
Spend one night and one day protesting against a useless, unfair and detrimental reform. It is a way of reminding that unions won’t give in and will keep fighting “night and day” against a...
23 May 2012
Belgium: liberals pass 10 percent mark in social election
Victory. The increase in the number of candidates suggested that the CGLSB’s liberals were going to do well (see our dispatch No. 120303). And they did, passing the symbolic 10 percent mark...
23 May 2012
GM Europe: increasingly uncertain future for the Bochum site in Germany after the new Astra was given to Ellesmere Port (UK) and Gliwice (Poland) in return for concessions on labor organization
Is GM going to shut Bochum down after 2014? Since Opel’s management confirmed, on May 17 – Ascension Day – that it intended to produce its flagship car, the new Astra, only in Ellesmere Port, UK...
22 May 2012
Germany: IG-Metall signs new agreement introducing “recruitment bonuses” for temporary workers in the metal industry
Bonuses varying with the length of assignment. Like the 3.6 million metalworkers who will soon receive their highest wage increase in 20 years (see our dispatch No. 120326), temporary workers in...
22 May 2012
Spain: Workers’ Commissions asks the government for rigor and transparency on the injection of public funds into banks
Carlos Bravo, member of CCOO’s executive committee, presented his analysis of the financial reform published in the State Official Journal on Saturday, May 12. Here are a few excepts.
22 May 2012
Great Britain: employees at General Motors Ellesmere Port sign concessions agreement to keep their job
GM. The decision by General Motors (GM) to locate the building of the new Astra at its Ellesmere Port factory on Merseyside - rather than at a German plant – has secured 2,100 jobs at the...
21 May 2012
Great Britain: new series of reforms of equality legislation
unched two consultations in view of abolishing two measures contained in the Equality Act: employers’ liability for the harassment of their staff by a third party and questionnaires for...
21 May 2012
Germany: metalworkers get a 4.3 percent wage increase and more advantageous rules for apprentices and temporary workers
Highest increase in 20 years. Confirming once again that Baden-Württemberg is
a pilot region, the metal social partners in this southeastern Land managed to
put an end to a conflict threatening...
20 May 2012
Norway: new agreement in construction industry
e. This is why everyone was relieved when a last-minute agreement was reached on April 21 for the sector’s 6,000 employees, between the Byggenæringens Landsforening employers’...
20 May 2012
EU: IndustriALL European Trade Union created
, on May 16, the 200 organizations affiliated with the three European trade union federations – the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF), European...
20 May 2012
Germany: a 6.5 percent wage increase and job security for the 18,500 employees of T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary
Employment guarantee extended until the end of 2013. Punctuated by major warning strikes, the collective negotiations between Verdi and DTAG finally ended on May 15 with a last agreement, this...
16 May 2012
United States: unionization procedure reform tossed
In spite of great pressure (see our dispatch No. 110655), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) managed, six months ago, to reform union elections in businesses with the aim of “reducing...
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16 May 2012
Sweden: new agreement in rail transport
Wage increase in line with the labor market. the SEKO union is pleased with the negotiations’ outcome. “It is the result of a compromise, but it is good we managed to amend working conditions...
15 May 2012
Venezuela: enforcement of new Labor Law giving workers more protection
Participative project. The new Labor Organic Law (LOTT), as it is officially called, is the result of a participative project: 19,000 measures likely to be added to the reform were drafted during...
15 May 2012
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
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On 11 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld most of the directive on adequate minimum wages, rejecting Denmark’s claim that it infringed on national sovereignty over wage...
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