National industrial relations

In Greece, since last season, tourism has been enjoying a bright spell that seems to be lasting. In this context, the new collective agreement for restaurant workers was signed on December 30 for...

8 January 2014

Denmark: manufacturing social partners start bargaining to renew the sector’s collective agreement

Wage increase and enhanced training are some of the key themes of the negotiations for the renewal of the manufacturing collective agreement launched on January 7 by Dansk Industri for employers...

8 January 2014

EU: the last statutory barriers to labor market access for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are down, but prejudice remains

The last barriers to access the labor market for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens fell on January 1. Until then, using the maximum transition period negotiated in the membership treaty for these...

8 January 2014

Germany: involved in a long dispute with the Verdi union, Amazon is backed up by part of its staff

For the Verdi services union, which has been fighting for over a year so that the world leader in online retail improves pay in Germany, this is a serious, unexpected blow. Over 1,000 Amazon...

7 January 2014

Italy: banking social partners reopen dialogue with the renewal of the sector’s solidarity fund

After the sector’s employers’ organization (Abi) unilaterally terminated, in September, the national collective agreement, causing a break, and following the general strike in the sector on...

7 January 2014

Latin America: ILO worried about the lack of economic vigorousness in the region, and its negative impact on the labor market

“Panorama Laboral 2013,” the report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Latin America and the Caribbean gives a rather gloomy evaluation of the employment situation. Although...

7 January 2014

United States: employers won’t have to tell workers their labor rights

Following an unfavorable court decision, the National Labor Relations Board decided not to challenge the decision about the right to hang posters on labor rights and collective bargaining in the...

6 January 2014

Great Britain: TUC union calls for “triple alliance” to revitalise union membership in the private sector

Frances O'Grady, the TUC general secretary, in her New Year message called for a 'triple alliance' of labour unions, progressive politicians and civic groups to renew and revitalise union...

6 January 2014

United States: machinists at Boeing give up traditional pension to maintain production for the future 777X

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has just made a major compromise for Boeing. In return for producing the future 777X in Washington State, where the company...

6 January 2014

Sweden: the agreement signed in the banking industry provides for a guaranteed wage increase over 3 years

The Finansförbundet union caused a sensation in September when it decided to terminate the agreement binding it to the BAO employers’ organization but only on the ‘remuneration’ chapter. ...

23 December 2013

Hungary: new union landscape

Announced on May 1, 2013, the merger between the largest union confederations, MSZOSZ (national confederation of Hungarian unions), SZEF (Forum for union cooperation) and ASZSZ (Confederation of...

23 December 2013

Greece: overnight, Hellas Online, the telecom operator, fires its employees and has them re-hired by a subcontracting firm

Hellas Online, one of the key internet and telecom providers in Greece, has decided to outsource some of its activities to focus on its core business. This strategy affects nearly 60 percent of...

20 December 2013

Loomis AB: international framework agreement signed with UNI Global Union

On December 19, UNI Property Services and the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union (STWU) signed a global agreement with the Swedish cash transportation company, Loomis AB. Mostly present in Europe...

20 December 2013

Great Britain: more than 2 million employees have already enjoyed the reform of automatic enrollment to a pension fund

More than 2.2 million British people started paying contributions to a pension fund within the framework of the auto-enrollment reform. The reform aims to ‘force’ British workers to save for...

20 December 2013

Meliá and IUF sign global framework agreement which will apply to all hotels under Melia’s brands, whether they are owned, managed or franchised

The IUF (Uniting Food, Farm and Hotel global union federation) and Meliá Hotels International, the Spanish-headquartered hotel chain with over 38.000 employees worldwide, have signed, on December...

19 December 2013

Japan: lifetime employment, an endangered moral contract

In a country famous for “lifetime employment,” it seems that job security in japan has now become obsolete. With exports falling because of the Japanese bubble burst in 1989 and the economic...

19 December 2013

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