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Great Britain: the Conservative Party launches its own trade union movement
The Conservative Party is launching a new organisation to represent trade unionists sympathetic to the Tories. It is called the Conservative Workers and Trade Unionists Movement. Robert Halfon MP...
5 October 2015
Spain: interview with Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, General Secretary of The Workers’ Commissions (CCOO)
In an interview with Planet Labor during the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Congress held in Paris last week, the leader of The Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) outlined his expectations...
5 October 2015
Great Britain: government support package for redundant steel workers
After having refused to prop up the British subsidiary of Thai steel company SSI, the UK Government unveiled a package of support to help the 1,700 employees find alternative employment after...
5 October 2015
United States: UAW members reject the Fiat Chrysler wages agreement
It’s a no. With 65% of votes against, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) workers have rejected the wages agreement that representatives of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union had negotiated with the...
1 October 2015
Carrefour: signs an international framework agreement (IFA) on social dialogue and diversity
Carrefour, represented by Georges Plassat, its Chairman and CEO, together with Philip Jennings, General Secretary of UNI GLOBAL Union, and in the presence of Guy Ryder, Director-General of the...
1 October 2015
Germany: interview with Reiner Hoffmann, President of the DGB union confederation
During the 13th ETUC Congress being held in Paris, Planet Labor interviewed Reiner Hoffmann, President of DGB on two issues that are currently capturing Germany’s attention: the refugee situation...
30 September 2015
Denmark: skilled labor shortages are causing controversy
Employers’ bodies and certain trade unions continue to sound alarm bells over a problem on the horizon (2020), namely the lack of skilled labor and they are calling for a variety of reforms to...
30 September 2015
Italy: Poste Italiane signs a framework agreement with unions over reorganizing its postal distribution activity
Following on from the group’s four-year (2015-2019) strategic (partial) privatization plan, a framework agreement catering for the reorganization of its postal services and distribution activities...
30 September 2015
Sweden: trade unions and employers bodies indicate their expectations ahead of the 2016 round of negotiations
2016 is an important year for Sweden when 70% of collective agreements will come up for renegotiation. For several months now the different organizations have been preparing their arguments. What...
29 September 2015
Solvay: a charter to coordinate social dialogue across various levels
On 11 September management at Solvay Group and the Solvay European Works Council signed a ‘Charter on good collaboration practice’, which represents a first foray into coordinating Europe-wide...
29 September 2015
Austria: Metals industry bosses block collective negotiations right from the outset
Austria’s most important collective negotiations of the year are the Metal industry talks and this year they got off to what the unions termed an unprecedented ‘bang’. On Thursday 24th September...
28 September 2015
Great Britain: be it through fear or by voluntary action companies are starting to pay the Living Wage
Starbucks, the famous US coffee chain stole a march on its competitors in announcing on Friday 25 September that it would pay the Government’s target “National Living Wage” (c.f. article No. 9180)...
28 September 2015
United States: marking a first, auto parts workers in a factory in the southern state of Alabama vote to join the UAW
The United Auto Workers union (UAW) has just made its first inroads into Alabama, one of the southern States most opposed to all forms of organized labor.
25 September 2015
Germany: Daimler signs an agreement to strengthen and spread its “Generation Management activities”
On Tuesday 22 September both the HR department and the central works council at the German automaker Daimler signed an “Agreement strengthening generation management” at the company. It contains...
24 September 2015
Germany: reelected head of Verdi, Frank Bsirske puts digital transformation at the heart of the service union’s activity
Frank Bsirske (63) has headed up the services union Verdi since its inception in 2001 and for the fifth time in a row he has been reelected as its head during the Verdi congress being held in...
23 September 2015
Italy: the CGIL starts ‘cutting red tape’ in order to attract more members
Attracting more members and strengthening unions in the workplace and across the country. Such are the priorities taken up by the 6th CGIL conference, held in Rome on September 17 and 18. One of...
22 September 2015
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Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
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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