National industrial relations

The German metals group has put up a website that allows the group’s employees worldwide to report any violations of the global framework agreement signed with IndustriALL Global union and IG...

1 April 2016

Whirlpool: the new European works council agreement covers the entire EMEA region

Following the US domestic appliance manufacturer’s purchase of its Italian competitor Indesit, the signatories agreed to apply article 13 of the European Directive 2009, which intends for complete...

31 March 2016

Italy: first of its kind alliance at FCA-Chrysler between Fim-Cisl and the senior executives association

A first of its kind alliance has been struck between workers and senior executives at Fiat that establishes a new era in Italian industrial relations. On 29 March, Fim union and the Fiat CNH...

31 March 2016

Renault: the new EWC agreement, signed with the SNB, is placed under European Directive 2009/38

On 24 March, the French automaker together with the SNB signed a new EWC agreement. In taking up the procedure right from the start the goal was to establish an SNB according to the terms in the...

31 March 2016

Spain: first national collective agreement concluded for the metal sector

On 29 March, unions and employers announced they had signed the first national collective agreement for the technology industry and the metal services sector, which guarantees a minimum level of...

30 March 2016

United States: California sets $15 minimum wage by 2022

California is moving to a $15 an hour minimum wage by 2022, whereas the Federal hourly minimum is fixed at $7.25. Following several consultations with Republicans in Congress, employers’...

30 March 2016

Argentina: agreement over wages in the automobile sector

With joint negotiations already in full swing in Argentina, in mid-March Smata, the automobile union (sindicato de mecanicos y afines del transporte), struck an agreement for the new April-June...

30 March 2016

Italy: the metals unions have called for a general strike in support of their demands that their national sector collective agreement be renewed

On 24 March, following a summit meeting between the metals sector employers’ bodies, Federmeccanica and Assistal, and the sector’s three main union bodies, Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL, and Uilm-Uil, the...

25 March 2016

Great-Britain : Brexit could cost Britain £100 billion and one million jobs (CBI)

Leaving the EU would cause a serious shock to the UK economy that could lead to 950,000 job losses and leave the average household £3,700 worse off by 2020, a report commissioned by the CBI...

21 March 2016

Denmark: tripartite agreement over integrating refugees through work

One in two refugees in work. That’s the government’s goal in an agreement concluded on 17 March between the social partners over integrating refugees via employment. Key to the agreement is the...

18 March 2016

Spain: an agreement with Repsol to ensure respect for the working conditions in sub-contracting companies

Management at the oil group together with the union announced the signing of a cooperation protocol to guarantee respect for suppliers’ employees’ rights who carry out services at the...

17 March 2016

Germany: Minister for Labor, Andrea Nahles, wants to establish “chosen working time” for all, in the medium term

Almost one year after the starting gun was fired in April 2015 for a ‘national dialogue’ over the future of the world of work in the digital age, Andrea Nahles, Federal Minister for Social Affairs...

16 March 2016

United States: Silicon Valley bus drivers unionize in order to reap benefits from the new economy

Belonging to a union as a way to ensure that everyone gains from the new economy. Thus is the message from the Silicon Valley Rising movement, which, as is characteristic of the American...

16 March 2016

Great Britain: trade unions adjust their organization strategies in the face of challenging circumstances

With each under new leadership, three unions are currently undertaking organisational redesign programmes in an effort to re-imagine their role and stave off further decline and by increasing...

16 March 2016

Danone signs a global framework agreement on sustainable employment

On 15 March the giant food-products company together with the sector’s international union federation, the IUF, International Union of Food and Allied workers, announced the signing of a tenth...

15 March 2016

Germany: significant social conflict looms for Volkswagen, already beleaguered by the ‘Dieselgate’ affair

Already caught up in a massive scandal over tampered diesel engines, Germany’s automobile group Volkswagen risks having to deal with considerable social conflict. IG Metall has announced that...

15 March 2016

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