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Italy: Energia Concorrente, the organization representing ‘private’ energy companies, signs national collective agreement with unions
Founded in 2012 by Axpo Italia, GDF Suez Energia Italia, Repower, Sorgenia and Tirreno Power to represent the interests of ‘private’ energy companies, the Energia Concorrente employers’...
17 June 2013
Germany: GDL train drivers’ union signs first collective agreement with Agilis, the private rail company
On June 11, the GDL train drivers’ union announced that it had signed a collective agreement with Agilis, the private rail company based in Regensburg, Bavaria. It is the first time it signed an...
17 June 2013
United States: Caterpillar and United Steelworkers reach pay deal
The management of Caterpillar and the United Steelworkers’ union ratified a new six-year labor contract in the South Milwaukee plant in Wisconsin. Employees get a $4,000 (nearly €3,000) signing...
14 June 2013
Italy: Eni and unions sign agreement to ‘help’ nearly 1,000 workers retire and hire 300 young people
Eni and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions signed an agreement to ‘help’ about 1,000 workers through retirement while recruiting 300 young graduates and ‘stabilizing’ temporary...
14 June 2013
United States: AFL-CIO uses participatory democracy to prepare its 2013 Convention
Weaker than ever, the American union movement needs to get young people and minorities to join while defending its position in sectors where it is still present. This difficult task will be the...
13 June 2013
Germany: new setback for the CGB Christian union
Seized by the majority services union, Verdi, the Federal Labor Court of Erfurt issued an appeals judgment, on June 11, stating that the small health union, Medsonet, affiliated with the Christian...
12 June 2013
Germany: one of the biggest low-wage sectors in Europe
In 2010, 22.2 percent of German employees received a low income. Germany has the 7th biggest low-wage sector in the EU. This is the result of a new study released on June 10 by the WSI Institute...
11 June 2013
Great Britain: the use of ‘Section 188’ to impose less advantageous changes upon employees’ working conditions continues
It seems that the use of ‘Section 188’ is growing, even in the private sector. While it used to be more common in the public and non-market sectors, this provision allowing employers to amend...
11 June 2013
EON SE: commentary of the agreement on employee participation in the new European company
On October 16, 2012, EON SE signed the agreement on employee participation. On November 15, 2012, the company officially became a European company and the SE’s EWC met for the first time in...
11 June 2013
Lafarge: group management, EWC and EFBWW European federation sign declaration on wellbeing at work
On May 23, the management of Lafarge Group, its EWC and the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) signed a declaration on wellbeing at work. This declaration comes on top of the...
10 June 2013
Spain: textile/clothing collective agreements renewed in spite of disagreements among employers
The CIE employers’ organization and the Fiteqa-CCOO and FITAG-UGT unions signed the new collective agreement for the textile industry on June 5. Employers in the fashioning and weaving industry...
10 June 2013
Germany: 5.4 percent wage increase over 24 months in the insurance industry
Insurance social partners reached, on the night of June 7, a deal for a 5.4 percent wage increase divided in two over 24 months. The agreement covers about 95 percent of the sector’s employees...
10 June 2013
Belgium: government puts social partners in charge of coming up with the single status for blue- and white-collar workers
About 30 days before the deadline set by the Constitutional Court to get rid of the differences between blue-collar and white-collar workers, the government failed to agree, during the Council of...
10 June 2013
Great Britain: groundbreaking agreement to build the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point
After months of negotiating, the UCATT, Unite and GMB unions have secured agreement with the client, EDF Energy, and the principal contractor, Bouygues Laing O’Rourke, a 'Common Framework...
6 June 2013
Germany: Karstadt, Amazon…, the Verdi union is fighting several battles to improve collective agreements in retail trade
Since the Karstadt department store company announced, in mid-May, that it wanted to get out, for two years, of the collective agreements in force in retail trade, a major dispute burst out...
6 June 2013
Italy: Turin Court of Appeal toughens sanctions against Eternit management (asbestos)
On Monday, June 3, the Court of Appeal of Turin sentenced Stephan Schmidheiny, the former Swiss CEO of Eternit, to 18 years’ imprisonment for “permanent culpable disaster and culpable omission of...
5 June 2013
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5 March 2026
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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...
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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