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Austria: 2.85 percent pay deal for the biggest metal employers’ organization
The open strike supposed to start today, October 29, was canceled. Indeed, last night, the metal social partners reached an agreement on wages, with an increase between 2.6 and 3.2 percent...
29 October 2013
Great Britain: employers in the food industry join forces to fight illegal labor
Major retail groups joined together within an information campaign aimed to eradicate forced labor of immigrants in the food industry. This problem is booming and the number of reports increased...
29 October 2013
Denmark: HK convention wants to change the union to better meet its members’ needs and be more attractive
With the slogan, “Members at the Center,” HK organized its 31st convention in Copenhagen on October 24-26. With 280,000 members – 75 percent of whom are women – it is the second largest union in...
28 October 2013
China: interview of Hubert Bazin, lawyer in Beijing, about the changes to the Chinese labor market
“For a long time, China was considered as a country with low labor costs and very flexible labor law, with flexible recruitment and layoff options, but it isn’t true anymore.” Hubert Bazin, in...
28 October 2013
Great Britain: Ineos wins battle with Unite the union at its petro-chemical plant at Grangemouth
After the threatened closure of the petro-chemical plant at Grangemouth by owner, Ineos, the Unite union has now agreed not only to all the concessions the company was initially looking for but...
28 October 2013
Brazil: collective agreement signed in the banking industry after 23 days of strike
On Friday, October 18, the National Confederation of Financial Workers (Contraf-CUT, affiliated with the largest union confederation) signed the sector’s 22nd collective agreement for 2013-14 with...
25 October 2013
Great Britain: unions want employees to have a voice in companies’ boards
The Trades Union Confederation (TUC) hit hard, launching a first campaign asking for employee representatives to sit on boards. Currently, there is no law containing the obligation for British...
25 October 2013
Austria: metal unions announce open strike starting on Tuesday, October 29
After the 4th bargaining round failed on October 22, affecting 120,000 of the sector’s 180,000 employees, Pro-Ge and DPA-djp, the metalworkers’ unions, decided to take a harder line and...
24 October 2013
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
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29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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31 October 2025
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026