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Great Britain: Unite to consult members to launch a strike in construction
key trade union, announced that it was going to consult its 20,000 members in engineering and construction to launch a national strike after the summer. This is an answer to employers’...
Austria: unions call forth referendum on the reform of the postal sector
Defend public service missions. A few days to the referendum he initiated, Manfred Wiedner, leader of the group of Christian unions within the GPF, is confident: “We receive 38,000 support...
Austria: government wants to transfer 1,200 civil servants from the post and telecom to the police
Heinisch-Hosek, Austrian Minister of Public Service and Women, proposed transferring some of the civil servants from the Österreischiche Post and Telekom Austria to the police. The idea is...
Italy: Cisl and Unitary Executives’ Confederation (CUQ) sign associative pact
ederation which, with its member organizations – Anqui, Confederquadri, Federquadri, Italquadri and Sinfub -gathers almost 100,000 “white-collars” in the trade industry...
Sweden: the young increasingly question unions’ all-might in determining wages
d political parties debated the worrying unemployment rate of young people during the traditional “Almedalen week” in Gotland on June 28-July 4, 2009, a study reveals that young...
Austria: Austrian Airline’s works councils accept three savings programs and a 5% wage cut to attract Lufthansa
management of Austrian Airlines (AUA) are ready to do just about anything so that Lufthansa, their German big sister, will buy their company, in very bad shape. From the beginning of 2009 until...
Italy: Fincantieri backs out and sings new company agreement with unions
on mobilization organized by the Fiom-CGIL to protest against the separate company agreement the management and the two other unions, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil signed in April, Fincantieri, world...
Spain: professional experience will be validated
cil of Ministers approved several royal decrees initiating the recognition of professional knowledge as early as this year. They are aimed at making up for Spain’s delay in terms of...
Colgate-Palmolive: renewal of the agreement establishing the EWC in the wake of the new directive
ement of the American Colgate-Palmolive signed with the representatives of the European Forum (EWC) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF) the renewal of the...
Germany: DGB calls for a renewal of the High Federal Antidiscrimination Authority
enforcement of the General Equal Treatment Act, the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) drew up, on July 16, 2009, a tough report of the activities of the High Federal Antidiscrimination...
Germany: important wave of layoffs in the fall in several key economic sectors taking shape
short-time working measures, to the early consequences of anticrisis programs and to the will of the social partners to maintain employment for as long as possible, Germany hasn’t yet...
Mexico: enforcement of the law on the responsibility of the contractor in terms of social charges
The reform of the Social Security Act was created to give the Mexican government more legal tools to regulate outsourcing, especially to control and punish subcontracting businesses trying to...
Fiat: global union network under the aegis of the International Metalworkers’ Federation
was launched during the meeting organized in June in Turin by the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF). “Intervention network” for current restructuring programs, it...
Netherlands: The Hague introduces more restrictive anticrisis short-time working
usinesses to reduce their employees’ working time was renewed. However, the new provisions set less generous provisions. The new system enters into force today, July 20. (Ref. 090744) The...
EU: new Committee on Employment and Social Affairs at the European Parliament
Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament be the same as the previous one: rather ready to criticize the European Commission’s inactivity and cause difficulties to the Council...
Great Britain: insufficient resources for the Health and Safety Executive
Limited power. Rita Donaghy, former head of the ACAS conciliation service, conducted the study in progress since the beginning of 2009, commissioned by the government. At the heart of the report...
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