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Great Britain: electronic balloting for strike action on the cards?
With just a few weeks to go before the general election, where a Tory victory would see further restrictions on unions’ right to strike, the LibDem Business Secretary Vince Cable is launching a...
24 March 2015
Great Britain : Community union achieves end of zero hour contracts at postal company, Whistl
The Community union has achieved a breakthrough by negotiating an end to zero hour contracts for its members at Whistl. It has done so through a partnership approach with the employer which has...
23 March 2015
Airbus Group: agreement on employee involvement in the SE (European Company)
At the beginning of March, the aeronautics group, together with the negotiation Group specifically formed for the purpose, signed an agreement covering employee involvement in the future...
23 March 2015
Brazil: 2014, a good year for collective bargaining
On Thursday March 19, the Brazilian trade union related Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (DIEESE) released a report that showed 91.5% of employee/employer...
20 March 2015
ThyssenKrupp: signs a global framework agreement on minimum labor standards.
On March 16, ThyssenKrupp together with the group's works council, the German metal workers union IG Metall, and IndustriALL Global Union signed a global framework agreement on minimum labor...
20 March 2015
Solvay: Forum for international social dialogue set up
For the first time, from 4 to 6 March, the Belgian chemical company organised the “Solvay Global Forum”, platform for international social dialogue. Jean-Christophe Sciberras, Group Director of...
18 March 2015
Ireland: government programme on industrial relations for the coming months
During an industrial relations conference, the TD Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash, discussed the labour programme led by the Irish government, covering the areas of minimum wage and...
17 March 2015
United Kingdom: minimum wage to rise by 3%
Less than two months before the general election, the government has announced that the minimum wage will be increased as of 1 October, going up to £6.70 per hour (9.32 EUR) from £6.50 (9.04 EUR)...
17 March 2015
Spain: national framework agreement on employment and collective bargaining stuck on issue of salaries
Employers and trade unions have been negotiating for months regarding the renewal of the framework agreement which will establish the basis for collective bargaining for 2015 to 2017. It is...
16 March 2015
United States: United Steelworkers bring six-week strike to an end after agreement with refinery companies
On 12 March, trade unionists from United Steelworkers and envoys from Shell, representing around 15 oil refineries in California, Texas and other states, finally reached an agreement, following...
16 March 2015
Austria: opening of collective negotiations in industrial sector and agreement in finance sector
In Austria we are seeing the beginning of the “spring of collective negotiations”. On Wednesday 11 March, social partners from the banking and insurance sectors announced that they had reached an...
12 March 2015
Belgium: unions promise more demonstrations until the end of March as they protest Government measures
After having assembled 10,000 in Brussels on March 11, the common union front is looking to to keep up the pressure on the government that has recently modified an agreement with the social...
12 March 2015
United States: half of America’s States have now adopted anti-union legislation
Wisconsin’s fast tracking of a new law that restricts union financing illustrates the election leverage for Republican candidates of such legislation and it may not be long before a majority of...
12 March 2015
Italy: two unions from the banking sector, Fiba-Cisl and Dircredito (for senior staff), announce their merger
The independent union Dircredito and Fiba-Cisl announced their merger, creating a new union within the Cisl (Confederation of Trade Unions in Italy), named FIRST (Italian Federation Network for...
12 March 2015
Denmark: Danish labor union 3F scores an historic victory against social dumping on Copenhagen’s Metro system expansion site
22 million kroner (€2.95 million) is the amount that Cipa, one of three Italian subcontractors working on the expansion of the capital’s metro system, will have to pay in compensation to 3F who...
11 March 2015
Italy: the Fit-Cisl union has received enough public signatures to put its draft law to parliament over new strike regulations for local public transport
Rebalancing the costs of strike action, currently receiving workers’ and travellers’ support, and reducing conflict. Thus are the goals of a ‘peoples’ draft law presented by the Fit-Cisl to the...
9 March 2015
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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...
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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...
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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