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United States: Supreme Court puts an end to massive class actions
the discrimination claims lodged by 1.6 million women against Wal-Mart could not be given the class action status because they were not based on “common facts.” Consequently, there...
22 June 2011
EU: European trade unions renew opposition to European austerity policy
ropean Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), thousands of workers marched in Luxembourg on June 21st to protest European leaders’ austerity plans. They were 7,000 according to the police and at...
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21 June 2011
Spain: Court cancels minimum services established by the Region of Madrid for the last subway strike
e of Madrid a posteriori cancelled the minimum services imposed for the last subway strike in the capital on June 29-30, 2010. The same chamber also invalidated the minimum services demanded on...
21 June 2011
Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the national collective agreement in craft metal businesses
After 16 hours of nonstop negotiations, the
different units of the different employers’ organizations in craftsmanship and
SMEs (Confartigianato,
CNA, Casartigiani and CLAI) and the Fim-Cisl...
21 June 2011
United States: OUR Wal-Mart or how the United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union is trying to organize Wal-Mart employees on the internet since it cannot do it in the stores
ing a new form of social activism. As it has always managed to keep unions at a distance, one of them has decided to counter attack by creating an online rallying space. This new group...
21 June 2011
Romania: planned merger between two key union confederations
l Union Bloc), two of the key union confederations in Romania, are currently thinking about merging. The idea of uniting to rebuild the union movement is not new but is back after recent reforms...
21 June 2011
Poland: talks on minimum wage increase have begun
Fake negotiations. As provided for in the Act of October 10, 2002 on minimum wage, the social partners have gathered several times within the tripartite Committee (unions, employers, government)...
21 June 2011
EU: the social partners could negotiate the future framework for socially responsible restructurings
Watch the schedule. “Restructuring is at the heart of industrial relations at enterprise level. European social partners have worked intensively on this complex issue over the last ten years...
20 June 2011
Spain: why is the reform of collective bargaining contingent on the social partners at national level?
Though the new enactment is really complex (v. dépêche n°110398), and gives new wording to a large number of articles, the essentials of the reform, all linked to the idea of labor flexibility...
20 June 2011
Italy: Cisl and Uil union confederations organize their first “unitary” national demonstration
“We’re Italy’s hope.” This is how Cisl leader Raffaele Bonnani described the first national demonstration organized by the Cisl and Uil on Saturday, June 18th in Rome on the Piazza del Popolo...
20 June 2011
Germany: Verdi union calls for three-day strike in insurance from Monday, June 20th
The framework collective agreement at the heart of the conflict. Martina Sönnichsen, Verdi spokesperson, told Planet Labor that the strikes would begin today in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg...
20 June 2011
Netherlands: FNV and Allies union mobilizes against pension reform
The FNV and Allies (FNV Bondgenoten), the Netherlands’ key union, present in the industry and armed with 500,000 members, called on its members to send emails against the pension reform by June...
20 June 2011
EU: talks on the extension of maternity leave are at a dead end
No moving forward. On October 20th, a large majority of MEPs voted in favor of the extension of maternity leave to 20 weeks (see our dispatch No. 100745), paid 100%, as well as 15 days of...
20 June 2011
Great Britain: public sector employees start mobilizing against austerity program
Strike against pension reform in State services. The strike by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) is expected to close schools across England...
17 June 2011
Italy: Fiom-CGIL launches first independent metalworkers’ social network, the FiomNetWork
On June 16th, the Fiom celebrated its 110th birthday. The Federazione Italiana Operai Metallurgici (“Italiana” was replaced by “Impiegati” at the Congress in Turin in 1946) was founded in Livorno...
17 June 2011
Germany: government wants to improve the professional prospects of disabled workers
“Integration” as a guiding thread. Adopted in 2006, the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its optional protocol were ratified by Germany in February 2009. With 200...
16 June 2011
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Spain: already well on the way to pay transparency?
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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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EU: Court of Justice largely upholds directive on adequate minimum wages
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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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
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Germany: report previews draft bill to transpose EU Pay Transparency Directive
On Friday 7 November, Germany’s commission for a 'less bureaucratic implementation' of the EU Pay Transparency Directive — made up of employer and trade union representatives — submitted its...
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