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Sweden: after 11 days of strike, the paper workers’ union gets raises up to 3.5% for low wages
Tough negotiating conditions. The strike was tough and had an important number of followers. On April 5th, the union sent a slowdown notice (refusal to work overtime) for the entire paper...
28 April 2010
Latin America: undeclared labor, an endemic that worsened with the crisis
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), over 46% of the labor market in Latin America corresponds to undeclared labor. No a single country defies this problem. The Columbian...
28 April 2010
Denmark: 3F and TIB prepare merger for 2011
In 2004 already, when 3F (Fagligt Fælles Forbund) was born from the merger between the General Union of Danish Workers (SiD) and the Women Workers’ Union (KAD), the negotiations included the TIB...
28 April 2010
Netherlands: collective agreements contain more and more provisions on flexible working hours and telework
A report published on April 23rd by the Department for Labor and Social Affairs shows that the possibilities of working from home are booming as part of collective agreements. From only 6% in...
28 April 2010
Corporate Practices: Investor AB to promote women’s careers at all levels, including boards
Pro-active policy to recruit women. “This is a key issue. Something must be done to improve, in the end, the number of female leaders” declared Investor AB’s VP, Börje Ekholm, in 2006. This...
27 April 2010
International: commitment in favor of well-being at work and the universal right to health
ervatory (OSI) recently published a “commitment in favor of well-being at work and the universal right to health.” This document has already been signed by a dozen businesses and trade...
27 April 2010
Germany: the IG-Metall starts reforming its structures and covets green industries
New decline in members and income. In 2009, the crisis didn’t spare the size and finances of the largest union in Germany. While, at the beginning of last year, the IG-Metall proudly announced...
27 April 2010
Italy: 13th Congress of the CGIL’s trade, tourism and services federation, Filcams, on the theme of a “bearable future”
“A bearable future in the service sector” was the title of the 13th congress of the Filcams-CGIL organized in Riccione on April 19-21. The 722 representatives elected the 187 members of the new...
26 April 2010
Portugal: nearly twenty sectoral strikes over the next three days
Transportation. Drivers at the CP – Portuguese railways – are the first to down tools for three days. The train drivers union (SMAQ) called for a partial strike (5-10 am) affecting about on in...
26 April 2010
Great Britain: unions support the Labour with little positive enthusiasm and more out of fear that the Tories will come back
The need to do so to protect their members’ interests is clearly paramount after the deepest recession with its detrimental effect on wages and jobs, the huge national debt to bailout the banks...
26 April 2010
EU: national provisions depriving employees on parental leave from the rights to leave they acquired before they left are contrary to Community law
The European Court of Justice interpreted Austrian national provisions in the light of three framework agreements negotiated by the European social partners: parental leave, part-time work and...
26 April 2010
Germany: marked decline in the number of strikers in 2009
More and more conflicts at company level. According to the WSI, the marked decline in the number of strikers in 2009 mostly comes from the fact that some key sectors, such as metal, already signed...
26 April 2010
Netherlands: after the success of their nine-week strike, cleaning agents went from the status of vulnerable workers to visible and organized workers
1,100 agents on strike and discernible chaos. This was the toughest social conflict in the Netherlands since 1933 – garbage piled up in train stations, at the Schiphol airport and at some...
26 April 2010
Italy: unions are ready to talk about Fiat’s industrial program
“We’re asking Italian unions to acknowledge what a great opportunity we’re offering” said Fiat’s managing director, Sergio Marchionne, when presenting the group’s industrial program 2010-2014 on...
23 April 2010
Netherlands: employers demand layoff reform and mobility bonus for seniors
When presenting, on April 22nd, its view of the country’s future, the VNO-NCW announced that it wanted a new agreement with unions and the government that will come out of the legislative...
23 April 2010
Lidl: the German discounter was sentenced for wrongly pretending that its foreign subcontractors respected “fair trade rules”
After making tongues wag because of its “antiunion” policy and because it spied on its employees, the German discounter is trying to restore its image among its clientele. Against all odds, it...
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