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United States: the debate over the minimum wage increase is open again
It wasn’t the workers’ mobilizations at Walmart or fast-food chains, supported by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), that brought the debate over the minimum wage increase back to...
9 December 2013
Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway terminates contract with Portuguese subcontractor because of wage dumping
Following an investigation by the 3F union journal gathering material about the violation of Danish collective agreements by Cinterex, the Portuguese company, a major subcontractor in the...
9 December 2013
Great Britain: unions win several battles to organize cleaning workers in London
Two unions are involved: the largest public sector union (and the second biggest overall union), Unison, and the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB). They don’t have the same methods but...
9 December 2013
Germany: Sitech Sitztechnik, the car part manufacturing and a Volkswagen branch, signs agreement on temporary work in line with the parent company’s temporary charter
On December 6, the IG-Metall union announced that it had reached, after “difficult and lengthy negotiations.” A collective agreement on appeal to temporary work with Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH, a...
6 December 2013
India: only 34 percent of young graduates are work-ready
According to the “India Skill Report 2014,” a wide survey on youth employability carried out among 100,000 students and 100 employers published last week, two thirds of young Indian graduates...
6 December 2013
Germany: pilot regional agreement with a 5.1 percent increase for 200,000 commerce employees
After 8 months of rotating strikes, 7 fruitless meetings and 1 bargaining night, the social partners in retail trade in Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart) reached an agreement on Thursday, December 5...
5 December 2013
Italy: the fire at the ‘lager-factory’ in Prato reveals the working conditions of Chinese immigrants in the country
Yesterday, the three Confederal unions of Tuscany did a symbolic walkout to commemorate the 7 Chinese workers who burned on December 1 in the warehouse where they worked and lived in Prato, the...
5 December 2013
Spain: Leroy Merlin in Madrid signs agreement on more work on Sunday
On November 28, the management signed, with the Fetico majority union and UGT and USO unions, an agreement extending the opening of stores until 10 pm instead of 3 pm in the Madrid area for 3...
5 December 2013
Great Britain: “Petroleum Driver Passport” coming soon
This is the biggest consequence of the major conflict between Unite the union and the seven main fuel distribution companies in 2011 and 2012. The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition...
5 December 2013
Germany: IG-Metall enters windmill maker Enercon, a previously unapproachable stronghold
At the end of November, workers at the 9 undertakings of the biggest wind turbine maker in Germany, Enercon, elected, for the first time ever, a works council. The election – launched in...
5 December 2013
Italy: after its historical breakthrough at the union election of Ilva in Taranto, the USB independent union is looking more and more like the union alternative
The Unione Syndicale di Base (USB), which ran for the first time for the RSU election in Ilva in Taranto – the largest factory in Italy – on November 27-29, is becoming the second largest union...
4 December 2013
Amazon: the Verdi union in Germany, Solidarnosc in Poland and OSPO in the Czech Republic join forces against online sales company
While the German employees of the biggest online store on the planet, Amazon, are dreading the opening of 2 new sorting sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, which could cause some sites to...
4 December 2013
Great Britain: Labour Party leader reviews reform of the union-party relationship
The leadership of the Labour Party is taking steps to avert a showdown with affiliated unions over reforming the union-party relationship, which aims to limit unions’ influence within the party...
3 December 2013
Spain: Mercadona retail chain’s new agreement provides for wage increases that aren’t linked with inflation
Disconnecting wage increases from CPI is one of the major injunctions made by Brussels in the name of internal devaluation, judged as inevitable for the country to renew with competitiveness. And...
3 December 2013
Italy: wave of strikes in local public transport
After the meeting at the Ministry of Labor failed on November 28, local public transport (LPT) unions confirmed the national 4-hour strike of December 16 to support the renewal of the national...
3 December 2013
Portugal: difficult social dialogue over the extension of pension contributions
The social partners started discussing retirement with unions in total rejection. The CGTP and UGT refuse the draft bill planning to increase retirement age to 66 in 2014. The government intends...
3 December 2013
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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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Germany: standoff over national plan to boost collective bargaining
Under the EU Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, Germany is required to produce an action plan to boost collective bargaining coverage. That plan has stalled, however, after being blocked by the...
9 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