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Canada: union relief at Liberal party’s election win
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s unexpected defeat during Canada’s federal elections on 19 October has calmed Canada’s unions that had been experiencing increasingly difficult relations with the...
23 October 2015
Germany: IG Metall’s new president announces a national campaign for redefining working time
In Frankfurt, between 18 – 24 October, IG Metall, the world’s largest major trade union with almost 2.3 million members, voted in its new management team. On Tuesday 20 October, former number 2...
22 October 2015
Great Britain: steel industry buckling under the crisis
Indian group Tata Steel announced on Tuesday 20 October that almost 1,200 jobs would be lost in yet another brutal blow to the UK’s steel industry. Businesses and unions in the sector warn that...
21 October 2015
Germany: IG Metall warns rapid refugee integration measures should not result in social dumping
Amidst fierce debate over ways to facilitate refugees’ entry into the German labor market, on Monday 19 October the metals union IG Metall during its 23rd congress being held in Frankfurt between...
21 October 2015
NH Hotel Group: establishes an EWC
The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) has announced an agreement was signed last week that puts an EWC in place for the hotel chain NH Hotel Group. A...
20 October 2015
Brazil: economic crisis hinders collective negotiation
Bad news for Brazil’s workers. Economic crisis and rising inflation (+9.8% over a year) have seriously compromised unions’ collective bargaining powers. According to the Inter-Union Department of...
20 October 2015
Japan: banking sector leading the way with gender equality initiatives targeting management level
In Japan, the weight of tradition slows down management innovation. Nonetheless, for the past year or two, the banking sector, one of the country’s most conservative sectors, is trying to innovate...
19 October 2015
United States: US union CWA and Germany’s Ver.di union combine forces against T-Mobile’s (Deutsche Telekom) alleged imposition of a law of silence over sexual harassment
The catalyst for this recent United States action against T-Mobile lies in a court ruling that declared illegal the requirement for employees who bring up sexual harassment cases to sign a...
19 October 2015
Italy: the chemical-pharmaceuticals national collective agreement renewed
On 15 October, employers’ bodies Federchimica and Farmindustria, together with the unions, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl, and Uiltec-Uil, renewed the national collective agreement (NCA) for the period...
16 October 2015
Denmark: robots key for the textile industry to return to the country
Three innovative Danish networks have come together in a pilot project to relocate textile production to Denmark. Robots will be used in the production process. This project is starting in the...
16 October 2015
Belgium: the government presents detailed arrangements concerning the tax shift program
The coalition government has presented concrete measures resulting from an agreement concluded at the end of July (c.f. article No. 9217) over tax reforms that intend to shift some of the tax...
16 October 2015
Italy: labor market showing first signs of recovery
Data from the National Social Security Agency (INPS) show 300,000 new permanent jobs (indefinite employment contracts) were created in the first 8 months of 2015. Are the numbers being boosted by...
15 October 2015
Argentina: Interview with Pablo Micheli, general secretary of the Argentine Workers’ Central Union the Autonomous-CTA
In Argentina with under two weeks to go before the presidential elections on 25 October the various different central trade union bodies are assessing the challenges that lie ahead during the...
15 October 2015
Brazil: banking sector conflict intensifies after a break down in negotiations over renewing the collective agreement
With the closure of 11,400 banking units across the country, the strike activity that has been shaking the banking sector for the past nine days shows no signs of diminishing. The National...
14 October 2015
Italy: Confindustria halts negotiations with unions over reforming the collective bargaining model
After ‘Article 18’, are national collective agreements going to be put on the block? Last week the leader of the employers’ confederation Confindustria announced he was pulling out of talks with...
13 October 2015
Germany: the Federal Constitutional Court rejects a motion brought by three corporatist unions against the ‘single union law’
For the three corporatist unions Vereingung Cockpit (aircraft pilots), Marburger Bund (doctors), and DJV (journalists) who made the constitutional challenge to the Federal Constitutional Court...
13 October 2015
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
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.
29 January 2026
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
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31 October 2025
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026