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United States: American Post bogged down in financial and social difficulties
Nine months ago, as the five-year negotiations for mailmen’s employment framework began, the United States Postal Service (USPS) asked the US Congress for the possibility to “adjust the size of...
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14 May 2012
Denmark: government releases 2020 economic policy
“We can maintain and develop our social system if more people are active” declared Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt when she presented her government’s 2020 economic policy in Copenhagen on...
Deutsche Post DHL: UNI and ITF union federation intensify global campaign against the violation of workers’ rights by DHL
Lie detectors and bullying.  “Companies that do not embrace corporate responsibility as an integral part of their business model will not be as successful in the long run” declared Franck Appel on...
Spain: interview of José Carlos Gonzalez Lorente, Federal secretary at Comfia-CCOO, the financial services federation, about his organization’s CSR and SRI actions
representative for Comfia-CCOO, the union federations of financial and administrative services of the Workers’ Commissions union, is telling Planet Labor about corporate social...
11 May 2012
Netherlands: 5 percent wage increase for Transavia’s ground staff
Transavia’s 600 ground staff will get a 3 percent structural increase in addition to two bonuses, in May 2012 and in May 2013, amounting to 1 percent of annual income.  This agreement answers the...
Corporate practices: to secure the skills needed in the future, Volvo AB Group sets up its own training program for young jobseekers
Recruitment is the new challenge of the coming years.  Olof Persson, CEO of Volvo AB Group, says recruitment will be a major challenge for Swedish manufacturing in the years to come.  “We’re doing...
Great Britain: Queen talks about the reform of employment tribunals and pensions and flexible parental leave
“My ministers' first priority will be to reduce the deficit and restore economic stability” the Queen said as an introduction before the two houses of Parliament.  Here are the bills to be handled...
Italy: the three union confederations call for a national demonstration to change the government’s economic policy
“A big, unitary union demonstration opening a series of claims on labor and taxes” announced CGIL leader Susanna Camusso, when she presented the unitary national demonstration of the three...
Belgium: social election launched
Economic crisis.  After two weeks mobilizing, Belgian unions rejoiced with the rise in the number of candidates for the social election.  This increase is greatly due to the economic context.  The...
Inditex: new agreement on the involvement of unions to monitor the respect of workers’ conditions at supplier firms
The management of the international union federation provides for the introduction of a working program for these agreements to immediately come into force throughout the production chain...
Netherlands: employers worried about wage increases
Employers are sounding the alarm: the wage increases negotiated for 2012 are too high and “don’t mirror the country’s economic situation,” according to the General Employers’ Association (Algemene...
France: the new President of the Republic’s commitments affecting the labor world
First measures.  During his campaign, Hollande gave a few dates on the schedule of the first year of his Presidency and majority – if the socialist party wins the legislative election in June. ...
Germany: Verdi union gets a 6.5 percent wage increase for Telekom Deutschland’s 50,000 employees
6.5 percent increase over two years.  Both parties welcomed the agreement, secured after arduous negotiations punctuated by a series of warning strikes at national level.  “It is a good agreement...
Great Britain: defeated in the fight against council workers’ wage cuts, Unite and Unison help bring the Labor Party at the head of the Southampton council
In mid-2011, the Conservative-run council instituted a 4.5% pay cut, a three-year pay freeze on cost-of-living increments, and a two-year freeze on annual increments. The choice facing council...
Denmark: new Danish Nanosafety Research Center
“Businesses have countless opportunities to develop new forms of nanoparticles, and testing each nanoparticle’s impact on health is a tremendous task.  Yet, as nanoparticles with the same...
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