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Germany: the Verdi union renews warning strikes at the Real supermarket chain in a bid to convince management to reapply the sector’s collective agreements
In the run-up to the holiday period, services union Verdi has again called on its members at the German supermarket chain Real SB-Warenhaus GmbH (Real), which is owned by the Metro group, to stop...
16 December 2015
Sweden: Spotify and the TCO union promote the Swedish model
After “eat like a Swede” here comes “work like a Swede”. The Swedish music streaming group Spotify is spreading the country’s gender equality model by implementing a global parental leave policy...
15 December 2015
United States : Uber’s drivers in Seattle may now join a Union
The City Council of Seattle decided, last Monday, unanimously that Uber’s drivers may form a Union to negotiate their wages and work conditions.
15 December 2015
Great Britain: agreement on pensions at the British subsidiary of EDF
Members of the GMB union and Unison approved an agreement secured by their representatives over pensions at EDF’s British subsidiary. A rarity in the agreement, according to the unions, is the...
15 December 2015
Italy: the rubber and plastics sectors renew the national collective agreement
On 10 December the social partners in the rubber and plastics sectors concluded an agreement to renew the national collective agreement for the period from 01 January 2016 until 31 December 2018...
15 December 2015
Germany: the Federation of Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) launches a nationwide action program facilitating refugees’ inclusion into the labor market
While the number of officially recorded asylum seekers topped the one million mark at the start of December, debate continues unabated in Germany over refugees’ job prospects as well as over the...
14 December 2015
Italy: sharp rise in indefinite employment contracts in the agency work sector
The Assolavoro Observatory, the employers’ association in the agency sector, published data on contracts concluded in the sector for September 2015. The main news is that the number of indefinite...
14 December 2015
Portugal: social consultation starts over the minimum wage
Antonio Costa’s new socialist government has launched a debate on raising Portugal’s minimum wage. The Prime Minister invited the country’s social partners in person to the first social...
11 December 2015
Belgium: social partners conclude an agreement on the return to work for those on long-term illness leave as well as on economic unemployment
In the evening of 09 December, both unions and business leaders concluded an agreement over government proposals on both the return to work for those on long-term illness leave as well as on...
10 December 2015
Great Britain: CWU signs a radical new job security and attendance pattern agreement with BT telecommunications
Members of the Communications Union (CWU) have strongly backed the ‘Transformation Agreement’ their union negotiated with BT Consumer operations, the customer care and service operations wing of...
9 December 2015
Germany: management at Siemens together with the company’s central works council and the IG Metall union collaborate to stimulate employee creativity by way of an ‘innovation fund’
In a joint declaration published on 08 December the Siemens works council (WC) and the IG Metall union announced they had concluded an agreement with management at the German industrial giant that...
9 December 2015
Italy: Michelin comes to agreement with unions over its reorganization plan
Following worker mobilization, the French tyre maker came to an agreement with the unions over reorganization in Italy’s Piedmont region where it employs some 3,700 workers. In the agreement one...
7 December 2015
United States: the UAW strikes an historic victory in the U.S. south during union elections at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee
The United Auto Workers union UAW has finally got its foot in the door of the Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga in Tennessee. The skilled trades workers on the Passat assembly line voted by 108 in...
7 December 2015
Netherlands: PostNL signs a new five-year agreement to help manage its upcoming business reorganisation
In October 2015 management at PostNL together with the unions FNV, CNV, and VHP2 concluded an agreement in principle over a social plan for the Dutch postal operator. Employees voted in favour and...
4 December 2015
Finland: negotiations to renew collective agreements and improve competitiveness are going nowhere
Echoing the position it adopted in 2007 the business leaders body for industry, EK, announced at the end of November that it was refusing to negotiate a new cross-industry framework agreement on...
4 December 2015
Spain: political parties present their proposals in front of the general election on 20 December
As campaigning starts for the general election on 20 December, the main political parties are putting forward their proposals to reform labor legislation and free up the jobs market.
3 December 2015
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Oliver Dietrich (IG Metall): “The advent of AI can be a means of deepening social partnership within companies”
In Germany, trade unions want to influence how AI is deployed in companies. Oliver Dietrich is an AI project manager at the regional office of the IG Metall trade union in North Rhine-Westphalia...
21 January 2026
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EU: social partners split over competitiveness and action on job quality
The European Trade Union Confederation and BusinessEurope have published their response to the consultation document on the European Commission's upcoming EU quality jobs initiative. The two...
4 February 2026
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Germany: collective bargaining negotiations begin in chemical industry
Collective bargaining talks in Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are due to open this week, covering nearly 580,000 employees across around 1,700 companies. With the sector facing...
3 February 2026
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Italy: new generational renewal agreement penned at UniCredit
The agreement signed on 30 December by UniCredit, Italy’s second-largest banking group, with the Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions aims to continue generational...
15 January 2026
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France: social partner talks extend far beyond contractual terminations
After a false start on 3 December, French social partners resumed talks on 7 January 2026 on potential changes to the unemployment insurance agreement, including the rules governing compensation...
12 January 2026
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026