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Belgium: ArcelorMittal reaches draft agreement on the industrial chapter
After bargaining for 8 months, unions and the management at ArcelorMittal reached, yesterday, a draft agreement on an industrial plan for the restructuring of its cold-processing line in Liege...
1 October 2013
Germany: schedule of 2014/15 collective bargaining
In 2014, 10.5 million employees will be directly affected by collective pay negotiations. Planet Labor is giving you the detailed schedule of collective bargaining in 2014 and 2015 as well as the...
1 October 2013
Luxembourg: social elections on November 13
On November 13, two elections will take place in Luxembourg affecting employee representation: the Chamber of Employees (Chambre des salariés de Luxembourg, CSL) and the company employee...
30 September 2013
Denmark: North Jutland is the first region to include “chain liability” in public contracts to combat social dumping
After adopting, in May, a new policy for public markets, focusing on social and environmental clauses, North Jutland is now enforcing it in tenders for the construction of the new university...
30 September 2013
Sweden: new agreement for the 16,000 employees in the postal and cargo industry
Mediators helped with the agreement reached on September 17, 2013 between the SEKO (service and communication) union and the Almega service employers’ organization for the postal and cargo...
27 September 2013
Xylem: agreement establishing the European Works Council
In May 2013, Xylem, a company specialized in water transport and treatment, introduced a European Works Council covered by Swedish law. (Ref. 130569)
27 September 2013
Great-Britain: unions win first battle against zero hours contracts
A strike by members of the bakers’ workers union, the BFAWU, has compelled Premier Foods at its Wigan Hovis factory to agree to limit the company’s use of agency workers on zero hour contracts...
25 September 2013
Italy: Cisl kicks off “network federation” (transport, electricity, communication)
On September 24, during the meeting of executives and officials of three Cisl federations (Fit – transportation, Flaei – electricity and Fistel – communication, editing and entertainment), the...
25 September 2013
Hungary: overview of industrial relations
In Hungary, collective bargaining has been upset since the FIDESZ party came to power in April 2010 and the new Labor Code came into force in 2012. Because of this situation, unions have to...
25 September 2013
Italy: banking unions call for general strike on October 31
Banking unions set a date for the unitary general strike, October 31, to reject the early termination of the national collective agreement formalized by the Abi employers’ organization last week. ...
24 September 2013
Austria: collective bargaining starts in the metal industry
On September 18, the Austrian metalworkers’ union, Pro.Ge, presented its claims for the annual collective negotiations in the sector to three of the six federations in the industry. The union...
23 September 2013
Great-Britain: with the first signs of recovery, private sector workers are starting to reject pay austerity
Over the summer and into the autumn in the private sector, a number of disputes (often involving industrial action) have taken place, showing that unionised workers are beginning to contest pay...
23 September 2013
Denmark: priorities of the 3F convention for the next 3 years
The strategy for the 3 years to come of the 3F union, the biggest union in Denmark, which organizes workers in construction, manufacturing, transportation, the public sector and services, revolves...
23 September 2013
Germany: crisis agreement for 20,000 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe employees
On Wednesday, September 18, the IG-Metall’s Collective Agreements Commission approved the crisis agreement negotiated in mid-September between ThyssenKrupp’s management and the union. It offers...
19 September 2013
Luxembourg: agreement on moral harassment in the banking industry
On September 17, banking unions in Luxembourg (ALEBA, OGB-L and LCGB-SESF) signed, with the banking employers’ organization (ABBL), an agreement on moral harassment. It transposes the 2009...
19 September 2013
Denmark: Danish Crown workers reject the agreement providing for the payment of part of their salary to an investment company to revive pig farming and maintain employment in the industry
The proposal to invest part of the salary to improve pig farming in the next 4 years, to keep Danish Crown’s slaughterhouses in the country from closing, failed to convince a majority of...
18 September 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