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Germany: conservatives and social-democrats announce agreement on the introduction of a mandatory quota of women on boards
The Family Commission, one of the 16 commissions created by Angela Merkel’s conservative union (CDU/CSU) and the social-democratic party (SPD) within the framework of the negotiations for the...
18 November 2013
Denmark: “chain responsibility” in public sites at the center of the campaign for the municipal elections
The issue of social dumping could be decisive in the outcome of the municipal election of November 19. LO signed agreements with left-wing parties in several towns, who commit themselves, in...
18 November 2013
Spain: latest government statistics on collective bargaining show that the agreements negotiated confirm pay freeze or cut
The Ministry of Labor released statistics about the collective agreements signed after the 2012 labor market reform. They point out that lower labor costs have been achieved as one third of...
18 November 2013
Austria: trade social partners sign first collective agreement over 2 years
The social partners in the Austrian trade industry, the DPA-djp union and the Trade Department of the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKÖ), presented, for the first time in the sector’s history, a...
15 November 2013
Canada: H&M strikes first unionization agreement in Quebec
On November 2, the UFCW union announced that workers at H&M in Joliette, Québec had signed their first collective agreement, which expires in 2016 and improves pay conditions and personal...
15 November 2013
United States: IAM rejects Boeing’s new collective contract
The International Union of Machinists (IAM) at Bowing rejected the 8-year contract guaranteeing employment in exchange for major concessions in terms of retirement and health Boeing offered to...
15 November 2013
Germany: Verdi unions agrees to the 2.3 percent wage increase negotiated at the end of October at IBM Deutschland
On Monday, November 11, Verdi’s Federal Committee on information technologies and data processing accepted the collective agreement negotiated by the company social partners at the end of October...
14 November 2013
Great Britain: Unite launches credit union network to save its members from contracting payday loans
The Unite union has launched a new credit union service, in a bid it says ‘to take on payday lenders, encourage saving and offer members finance without fear’. The service has been expressly...
14 November 2013
Japan: the long working hours culture is hard to oust
In Japan, even if the official workweek is 40 hours, unpaid overtime remains an old tradition. In spite of some changes to labor law and the effort made by some businesses to avoid abuses...
14 November 2013
Italy: after leaving Eni, Snam is defining its own industrial relations model
Snam Group, the biggest company in Italy for transportation, regasification, supply and storage of natural gas, signed an agreement on October 17 for a new industrial relations system with the...
13 November 2013
Estonia: first finance union created
So far, Estonia didn’t have a trade union in the finance industry. Since September 11, 2013, the sector’s workers can join a sectoral union. Officially called the “Estonian Association of...
13 November 2013
Austria: collective bargaining in the metal industry end with a 2.8 percent unitary increase
After bargaining for 7 weeks, the social partners in the metal industry signed, on Thursday, November 8, the 6th and last collective agreement for the 7,000 foundry workers. For the six sub metal...
13 November 2013
Germany: employees blame Microsoft for trying to close 3 sites to part with critical personnel representatives
Is the “trust-based working time” system a good thing for employees, allowing for greater work-life balance, or is it a bad thing, leading to unchecked work overload, or both at the same time? An...
12 November 2013
Switzerland: vivid debate over the referendum to reduce the gap between the highest and lowest wages in companies
On November 24, Swiss citizens will have to vote for or against the popular initiative launched by the Young Socialists. They want to impose, via a constitutional amendment, a maximum 1-12...
12 November 2013
United States: United Auto Workers to get a new leader soon
The future President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) will be Dennis Williams. The man who used to be secretary-treasurer was elected by his peers during a recent meeting in Dearborn, Michigan...
12 November 2013
Greece: trade industry agitated by the opening of stores on Sunday and the end of the collective agreement
On November 3, private sector workers did a general strike and demonstrated in Athens’ main shopping street to reassert their rights and protect Sundays off, questioned by a law adopted this...
12 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