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Germany: three-year pay deal in the temporary work industry
On September 17, the social partners in the temporary work industry, a sector which currently employs, in average, 800,000 people a year, signed a collective agreement on pay. Until December 31...
18 September 2013
Belgium: new pay freeze controversy
By deciding to freeze pay (outside indexation and scale increases), the government thought it had effectively prepared the ground to put together the notorious “competitiveness pact” the Federal...
18 September 2013
Germany: IG-Metall union and Meyer Werft, the shipbuilder, sign new collective agreement on subcontractors’ working conditions
Approximately two months after two Romanian workers died in a fire, the IG Metall Küste (coastal federation) and the German shipbuilder Meyer Werft announced, on September 16, that they signed...
17 September 2013
Italy: banking employers’ organization, Abi, terminates national collective agreement and unions prepare for general strike
On September 16, ten months early, Abi officially let the Dircredito, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub, UGL-Credito and Uilca unions that it terminated the national collective agreement in...
17 September 2013
Germany: Ministry of Employment, employers and unions commit to fight stress at work together
After bargaining for a year and a half within the framework of the “Joint Occupational Safety and Health Strategy (GDA),” the German Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, the BDA employers’...
17 September 2013
European Works Council: comparative study of three agreements in the transportation industry
Three transportation firms signed an EWC agreement in 2012 in order to adjust their structure to the new EWC Directive, 2009/38: UPS, British Airways and Kuehne + Nagel (K + N). Two of them are...
16 September 2013
United States: AFL-CIO union opens up to other civil society organizations to recover some ground
The last AFL-CIO convention last week in Los Angeles should be the start of a redefinition. Historically limited by legal restrictions, having a hard time diversify, facing sustained assaults...
16 September 2013
Japan: collective bargaining is getting weaker
In a context of economic crisis where the traditional practice of “lifelong” employment is being questioned, along with the remuneration scheme based on seniority, maintained until the late 90s...
16 September 2013
Great Britain: Wales takes measures against blacklisting in construction
The Welsh Assembly Government, the devolved government for Wales, has announced that public sector bodies in Wales are now permitted how to exclude companies which blacklist when recruiting staff...
13 September 2013
Italy: wood and furniture social partners renew national collective agreement
On September 11, in Milan, the FederlegnoArredo employers’ organization and the Fillea CGIL Filca-Cisl and Feneal-Uil unions signed an agreement renewing the national collective agreement (CCN) in...
13 September 2013
Portugal: wages are down for the second year in a row
First 2013 quarter figures show that wages in Portugal are going down. This drop started two years ago and is the consequence of the application of lower wages when workers are replaced. One...
12 September 2013
United States: Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant about to get a German-style WC
The American labor world is about to go through a historical event. Indeed, on Wednesday, September 11, Bob King, leader of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) told the German and American media...
12 September 2013
Germany: overview of the parties’ campaign programs before the legislative election of September 22
About a week to the German federal election, when speculation about possible coalitions after the vote is rife (reelection of the current CDU/CSU and FDP coalition, a “red-green” coalition between...
12 September 2013
Great Britain: if elected in 2015, Labour promises to tackle ‘zero hours’ contracts
At this year’s Trade Unions Congress, Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, outlined his party’s plans if elected to government in 2015 to regulate the use of zero-hours contracts. This came just...
11 September 2013
Belgium: Brussels Airlines wants to become the “lab for a new social model”
Like all traditional airlines, Brussels Airlines is forced to reposition itself and find the conditions for social and economic durability. But it wants to do it while reviewing its social...
11 September 2013
Spain: 66 Spanish employees affected by the closure of the TK Galmed plant in Sagunto will be redeployed to ThyssenKrupp’s plants in Germany
The agreement was negotiated by the Spanish unions with the group’s European Works Council. For the first time, via a union agreement, ThyssenKrupp gives several Spanish employees the possibility...
11 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