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Canada: Chrysler reaches agreement with auto union
Representatives at Chrysler, the last carmaker still negotiating with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) finally reached an agreement with their interlocutors. Chrysler’s 8,000 Canadian employees in...
28 September 2012
France: Goodyear Amiens-Nord management withdraws voluntary leave transfer program
The management told the employee representatives it was withdrawing the program after a central works council meeting which lasted just a few minutes, because they refused the draft agreement...
28 September 2012
Germany: BMW signs company agreement to recruit 3,000 agency workers in return for flexible working time
3,000 hires and no more than 8 percent temporary workers. The IG-Metall clearly sees the agreement signed on Wednesday in Munich between BMW and its central WC as a victory. Even though the...
27 September 2012
Germany: new head of metal employers’ organization wants to commit to an even more flexible labor market
September 14 was the transfer of power between the former and the new President of the German association of metal industries. “He knows the metal and electrical engineering industry, he knows...
27 September 2012
OHL: Spanish construction firm signs international framework agreement on workers’ rights and union freedoms
An agreement negotiated by the Fecoma-CCOO and MCA-UGT unions. The agreement was negotiated and signed at the request of the Fecoma-CCOO and MCA-UGT Spanish unions representing the BWI in Spain. ...
26 September 2012
Portugal: mobilization drives government to give up amending social contributions but taxes will rise
Single social tax. The Single Social Tax (TSU) on workers’ income should have increased by 7 percentage points, from 11 up to 18 percent, on January 1, 2013. At the same time, employers’ TSU...
25 September 2012
Italy: chemical/pharmaceutical social partners renew national collective agreement
All the organizations said they were satisfied with the agreement renewing the collective agreement in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry, signed in Rome on September 22, after only 5 days of...
24 September 2012
Norway: new agreement removes the threat of third strike in oil drilling
Hard to reach an agreement. “We’re happy we’ve reached an agreement, which is a positive foundation for future collaboration” declared Håvard Hauan, OLF’s attorney. The negotiations were tough...
24 September 2012
Italy: unitary agreement at Golden Lady delays the application of the labor market reform provision imposing the transformation of atypical contracts into permanent ones
Reasons and consequences. “We wanted to give our support to a well-ordered recruitment system with subservient contracts. Indeed, transforming these contracts at once was not possible from an...
20 September 2012
Siemens: after Siemens US violated the international CSR agreement in North East, Maryland, the social partners involved are talking about the new path to take
Breach of the CSR IFA. How can you launch a campaign against the creation of an employee representation structure in a plant in August and sign a global framework agreement on corporate social...
20 September 2012
Denmark: the union war at the Vejle restaurant, the symbol of the rivalry between traditional and ‘yellow’ unions
Until November 2011, the Vejlegården restaurant in the city of Vejle applied the national collective agreement 3F signed with the Horesta employers’ organization. However, the new owner, Amin...
19 September 2012
Germany: 2013-14 collective bargaining schedule
Wages increased less than anticipated in 2012. The report on 2012 collective bargaining, which will end this fall with a series of collective negotiations (agriculture, textile or transportation)...
19 September 2012
Great Britain: the Unite union assesses 50p community membership to rebuild its collective campaigning ability
In return for a host of benefits, Unite will train and develop these community members as community activists (see our dispatch No. 110772). They will then be put to use in bringing together...
19 September 2012
Morocco: government tries new social dialogue method
In the past few days, Abdelilah Benkirane, head of the Moroccan government, met with each union federation separately. The aim of this method is to give each union the time to give its views on...
19 September 2012
Canada: new wage agreement between Ford and auto unions
Next weekend, ford’s 4,500 staff in Canada still have to ratify the agreements. After three weeks of talks with Ford management, CAW President Ken Lewenza said it's a good deal in today's...
19 September 2012
Italy: Unicredit and unions sign agreement on industrial program and bonus
The signing unions (Dircredito, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub, Ugl-Credito and Uilca) said that the agreement signed with Unicredit on September 15, after four days and one night’s “tight...
18 September 2012
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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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ENI incorporates just transition and AI into global agreement
On 13 January, Italian energy group ENI renewed its global agreement on international industrial relations, corporate social responsibility and the just transition with Italian unions CGIL, CISL...
5 February 2026