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Great Britain: Ineos signs an agreement with Unite allowing the union to recruit new members at the Grangemouth site
Following last year’s long and bitter dispute at Grangemouth between the Unite union and the petrochemical company, Ineos, some rapprochement has now taken place. An agreement has been reached...
19 November 2014
Hungary: a bill banning Sunday shopping
Contrary to current trends, closing shops on Sundays is a proposal that has been put forward to parliament by the KDNP (Christian Democrat party), an ally of the governing party Fidesz. Even...
19 November 2014
Spain: the PSA Peugeot Citroën factory at Vigo with support from only one union reaches an agreement in principle that provides for wage reductions
Management and unions have negotiated a competitiveness plan for the PSA Peugeot Citroën factory at Vigo, Galicia. The plan allows for a 5% cut in basic pay and the reduction or even elimination...
18 November 2014
Italy: the young new leader of Fim, Cisl’s metals union federation prioritizes reaching out to the young and the ‘unseen’
At 44 years of age Marco Bentivogli was, on November 13, voted in by the Fim-Cisl General Council as the youngest ever metals union leader in Italian history. Via his project “Sindacato 2.0...
17 November 2014
AEON: Japan’s largest retailer signs a global framework agreement with the UNI Global Union
This global framework agreement signed on November 10 marks the third with Japanese businesses, the first two being in the service sector. However this third agreement is signed with Japan’s...
17 November 2014
Brazil : study reveals reasons for high labor turnover rate Brazil : study reveals reasons for high labor turnover rate
The significant rate of labor turnover in Brazil is caused by several factors, such as short-term contracts, seasonality of raw material, and economic cycles and employers' free reign to dismiss...
13 November 2014
United States: the United Automobile Workers is to represent workers at Volkswagen Chattanooga, but will most likely not be the only one
The UAW, the United Automobile Workers, will set up shop in the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the south of the United States, following the company’s establishment of a...
12 November 2014
Great Britain: deceptively positive employment growth?
Only one in forty new British jobs created since the recession is on a full-time contract: a shocking piece of data reported on November 12 by the TUC trade union confederation. This comes face to...
12 November 2014
Germany: management at IG Metall demands a wage rise of up to 5.5% over 12 months
Despite a backdrop of slowing growth in the German economy management at Germany’s biggest union IG Metall announced on Tuesday November 11 in Frankfurt that it will seek a wage rise of up to 5.5%...
11 November 2014
Italy: Eni has signed a memorandum of understanding on the ‘green conversion’ of its refinery in Sicily
Eni has signed an agreement with unions and both national and local authorities for the refinery’s ‘green conversion’ and a relaunch of the Gela area (Sicily). The unions are well satisfied...
11 November 2014
Italy: the IREN group, a services company working with local authorities, has reached an agreement on the ‘intergenerational pact’
The IREN group, the fourth largest services company (4,5000 employees) providing services to the Italian local authorities has reached an agreement on the ‘intergenerational pact’. This pact will...
10 November 2014
Transdev: the EWC brings an action to suspend the group’s decision over one of its’ French subsidiaries
On November 7 the Nanterre district court heard a submission for an emergency interim ruling sought after by the Transdev EWC against management of the transport group for non-respect of the right...
10 November 2014
Acciona, Dragados and Sacyr: three international framework agreements signed in Spain’s construction industry
On October 29 the Building and Wood Worker's International Federation (BWI) signed new International Framework Agreements with the management of three Spanish international construction companies...
10 November 2014
Canon: establishment of a new European Works Council
Four years after Canon bought the Dutch company Océ NV, a new agreement that was signed before the summer in accordance with article 13 of the Directive Recast, (treating changes to a company’s...
10 November 2014
Belgium: an historic demonstration in Brussels of 120,000 people protesting the center-right governments austerity measures
This Thursday November 6 the common union front assembled more than 120,000 supporters in Brussels for its first national demonstration protesting against measures that were fixed by government...
7 November 2014
United States: electors in four states vote for a rise in the minimum wage
Four states (Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota) voted for an increase in their minimum wage. These are the results of individual state ballot measures voted upon at the same time as the...
6 November 2014
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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