News update as of October 6, 2016

On the menu: a new leadership team for IndustriALL Global Union, Italy’s metals sector now in line to renew its national collective agreement, in France the draft law on multinational companies’ due diligence continues along its parliamentary procedure, Theresa May (UK) commissions a report on new forms of employment, Spain’s government sets about implementing the CJEU ruling on equal termination of employment compensation for both temporary and permanent employees, Brazil’s banking workers have now been on strike for a month, and Hyundai’s social dispute in South Korea has become more acute.
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IndustriALL Global’s second congress elects a new executive committee. Following a rousing opening address by Brazil’s former President Lula, 1,400 IndustriALL Global delegates set to work at the international union federation’s second congress that runs from 04 to 07 October in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Four years ago the organization was established from a merger between three international union federations representing metals, chemicals, and textiles (c.f. article No. 120413).

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