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Germany: Verdi services union signs collective agreement with two Deutsche Post subsidiaries
After a major conflict punctuated by several days of warning strikes at national level, the Verdi services union announced, on December 2, that it had signed a collective agreement with two...
3 December 2013
Spain: new professional categories in the hotel industry make functional mobility easier
On November 26, union and employers’ organizations in the hotel industry signed the new chapter of the national sectoral agreement that supervises the working conditions of 1 million employees in...
2 December 2013
Germany: temporary recruitments are Daimler’s answer to regulatory pressure on service provision contracts
The “Grand Coalition” made up of conservatives and social-democrats isn’t in power yet but is surely getting there. Its program, revealed on November 27, contains the introduction of statutory...
2 December 2013
Belgium: federal recovery program provides for contribution cuts of €1.3bn
On Friday, November 29, the federal agreement agreed on measures to support competitiveness and employment on financial (labor, energy or capital cost) and non-financial aspects (innovation...
2 December 2013
Great Britain: private sector wins employees’ trust
Private sector workers feel safer about their job than in the public sector, according to the latest Workplace employment relations study. In spite of the crisis, the private sector played its...
2 December 2013
Spain: Cemex workers agree to cut pay by 25 percent
Workers at Cemex’s Alicante plant have accepted the company’s offer to cut pay by 25 percent. The 5 other Spanish plants of the Mexican cement group already gave in to the management’s demands...
29 November 2013
Prosegur: Spanish private security giant accused of violating workers rights in 4 Latin American countries
UNI Global Union filed a complaint for violation of the OECD’s guidelines with the Spanish national contact point, as this is where Prosegur’s headquarters are located. The private security...
29 November 2013
Great Britain: parental leave and working mothers at the center of the political debate
British employers are carefully watching the papers to know what the government is going to decide in terms of parental leave. Indeed, this issue has become the bone of contention within the...
28 November 2013
Spain: court cancels part of the supermarkets’ collective agreement
The National Court canceled some of the provisions of the collective retailing agreement signed by the Fetico and Fasga unions against the CCOO and UGT’s sectoral union federations. The provision...
28 November 2013
Brazil: series of pay deals struck in the metal industry
Several sectoral agreements leader to a global 8 percent wage increase were signed in the metal industry in the State of São Paulo. Some were signed by Força sindical, some were signed by the CUT...
28 November 2013
International: shipbuilding and shipbreaking unions make it their priority to organize precarious workers
During IndustriALL Global Union’s Shipbuilding-Shipbreaking Action Group Meeting, which too place in Denmark on November 12-14, unions from the 18 countries represented decided to give priority to...
27 November 2013
Great Britain: sixth national survey of employment relations published
The full results of the sixth national survey of employment relations in Britain has now been published as Employment Relations: In the Shadow of Recession. It examines the state of employment...
27 November 2013
Germany: key points of the “Grand Coalition” program
The “grand commission” shared by the conservative parties (CDU and CSU) and the social-democratic party (SPD) finished working on Tuesday, November 27, around 5:30 am after one of the longest...
27 November 2013
United States: Walmart found guilty of unfair social practices
No, Walmart didn’t have the right to lay off and sanction employees who went on strikes and demonstrations, ruled the National Labor Relations Board after investigating for nearly a year into the...
26 November 2013
Great Britain: British workers’ training blamed once again
Young graduates accepting unskilled jobs, businesses forced to recruit abroad to find employees with the appropriate skills, everything shows that training in the UK isn’t adapted to the labor...
26 November 2013
Portugal: Parliament adopts 2014 austerity budget in difficult social atmosphere
Today, November 26, the National Assembly of Portugal is going to adopt the 2014 austerity budget, the third since the right-wing government came to power in 2011. The Finance Act plans to save...
26 November 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