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Italy: social partners in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry sign framework agreement on ‘high training’ apprenticeship in the sector
On October 8, the Federchimica and Farmindustria employers’ organizations signed a framework agreement with the Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions to regulate the “high training and...
24 October 2013
United States: the fight for fair union vote at Nissan Canton (Mississippi) on a quest for international solidarity
Four came to Paris to raise public awareness to the situation of Nissan’s workers in the Canton plant, Mississippi. In two weeks, they will go to Sao Paulo (Brazil) to build up more solidarity. ...
23 October 2013
Germany: IG BCE chemistry unions wants a 5.5 percent wage increase for the sector’s 550,000 employees
Four days after the end of its convention, the IG BCE chemistry union revealed, on October 22, its wage claims for the collective negotiations that will start at regional level on December 2 in...
23 October 2013
Great Britain: apprenticeship boom
The Cameron administration’s ‘attraction operation’ to bring apprenticeship back to the front of the stage seems to be working. 858,900 people chose this path in 2012/13, according to the latest...
23 October 2013
Italy: CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions call for 4-hour national strike against Stability Act
After the 24-hour strike organized by the independent unions, it is now the three big Italian union confederations’ turn to call for a strike against the planned Stability Act. But their strike...
23 October 2013
Germany: for the first time, employers and unions negotiate minimum wage in the meat industry
It’s a first. On Tuesday, October 22, the German Food Industry Association (VDEW) and the Food, Beverages and Catering union (NGG) opened talks to adopt a collective agreement introducing, for...
23 October 2013
Great Britain: unions and management outdo each other in the conflict between Ineos and Unite at the Grangemouth plant, Scotland
A long running dispute over an inquiry into alleged misuse of company facilities (email) by a Unite-affiliated worker at the Ineos oil and petro-chemical processing plant in Grangemouth, Scotland...
22 October 2013
France: PSA Peugeot Citroën signs competitiveness agreement
The FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC unions officially announced their intention to sign the agreement on the “new social contract” negotiated with the carmaker’s management. This deal, which the company...
22 October 2013
Sweden: Finansförbundet, the banking and finance union, terminates the sector’s collective agreement
Finansförbundet, the banking and finance workers’ union, had been thinking about it for a while. It made the decision and announced it on September 30, 2013: the union, which represents 29,000...
22 October 2013
Italy: organizers of the “two day” mobilization of independent unions against austerity say it was a “complete success”
Called by the independent unions (USB, Confederazione Cobas, Or.s.a. Scuola Università e Ricerca, Sindacato Siae, Cub, Usi and Unicobas), the general 24-hour strike against austerity policies...
22 October 2013
Germany: economic research institutes warn that introducing universal minimum wage would have subversive effects
While the CDU/CSU conservative party and SPD social-democratic party announced, on October 17 after intense preliminary discussions, their will to officially launch, on October 23, talks on the...
21 October 2013
China: “gray income” threateningly increasing
In China, “gray income” – which by definition can’t be found in national statistics – mostly reflects practices related to bribery and abuse of power. A recent study shows its scope: it allegedly...
18 October 2013
Brazil: 2012 annual report on employment and formal economy published
On Friday, October 11, the Ministry of Labor published its 2012 social information report (Rais), one of the “biggest sources of information on Brazil’s formal labor market.” This article...
18 October 2013
Portugal: renewed social tension with the announcement of the 2014 austerity budget
The CGTP is organizing a big day of action on Saturday, October 19 against the 2014 Finance Bill. The largest union confederation in Portugal will organize a go-slow operation on the “25 abril...
18 October 2013
Great Britain: recruiters worried about training following two damning reports
British training is blamed with two surveys underlining the extremely weak skills level, especially among young people. This is alarming for businesses who are now hiring abroad to make up for...
18 October 2013
Italy: with its 2014 “stability bill,” the government kicks off the income tax cut but the social partners say it’s not enough
On September 15, the Council of Ministers approved two finance bills 2014-16. Lowering the total fiscal burden from 44.3 down to 43.4 percent in 2016, the government claims that its budget act...
17 October 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