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Spain: union war stronger than ever in supermarkets
Representatives from FECOHT-CCOO, Workers’ Commissions’ retail federation, and from CHTJ-UGT, its counterpart at the UGT, say that they were called to a meeting initiated by ANGED. The order of...
18 September 2012
Germany: Defense Minister open talks with social partners to transfer at least 17,000 soldiers and to recall reservists
When meeting with union and employers’ representatives in early September in Berlin, German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière called on the social partners to actively support soldiers’ transfer...
18 September 2012
United States: New York stands up to Walmart
Walmart opponents have won a major victory: the supermarket backed out of entering the city of New York. This is a great victory for union members, opposed to the group from Bentonville, AR...
18 September 2012
Spain: transport strike against the sector opening to competition
All rail unions called for this strike (Workers Commissions, UGT, Semaf, Sindicato Ferroviario and sindicato de Circulación). This is the second day of strike since the government approved the...
17 September 2012
EU: finance unions hope that the new European banking supervisory authority will help change practices in the sector
Profit. Last week, the European Commission proposed a regulation providing for the supervision of all banking undertakings in the eurozone by the European Central Bank (ECB). The first step...
17 September 2012
Chile: major change for the key union which appoints a 33-year-old woman as its leader
ero, professor of philosophy, was appointed as the new President of the Workers’ United Center (CUT). This should give Chilean unionism a boost, as it is often criticized for its lack of...
17 September 2012
Sweden: Unionen and Handels union step in to defend IKEA staff in Turkey and sign an international framework agreement
Repeated union rights violations, aka the limits to IKEA’s great principles. IKEA’s stores worldwide are managed either directly by the group or by franchised. In Turkey, the stores are managed...
17 September 2012
France: employers and unions open “ambitious” talks on the labor market reform
Tight schedule. This first one-hour meeting was only about the schedule. The CGT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC unions and the Medef, CGPME, and UPA employers’ organizations will get to the heart...
17 September 2012
Austria: metalworkers’ unions accept partial questioning of 40 years of unitary collective bargaining
Negotiate fast to negotiate more. “Until now, unions have been doing their best to maintain joint collective negotiations with the six employers’ organizations. We’re sad we still have not...
14 September 2012
Brazil: Mercedes-Benz freezes pay to save jobs
3,000 surplus jobs kept. The metalworkers’ union in the ABC area (the name given to the Sao Paulo metropolitan zone), affiliated with the Unified Workers’ Central (CUT), and Mercedez-Benz...
14 September 2012
Brazil: Sao Paulo metalworkers on strike for pay
The metalworkers’ federation of the State of Sao Paulo (EMF/CUT-SP), affiliated with the Unified Workers’ Central, has been organizing several strikes and mobilization actions within the framework...
13 September 2012
Portugal: CGTP union mobilizes against austerity
The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP) is calling for a day of struggle and a gathering on September 29 in Lisbon against austerity. Independent, unorganized movements have called...
13 September 2012
Germany: a majority of Länder is about to support a bill introducing universal minimum wage
The issue of the introduction of universal minimum wage was revived after the Land of Thuringia, run by a conservative/social-democratic coalition, presented an initiative for a bill introducing...
12 September 2012
Italy: Monti seeks agreements from the social partners to increase productivity
Bringing back the competitiveness of Italian businesses would be “even more important than the spread” Mario Monti said, hence the need for employers and unions to find an agreement on the...
12 September 2012
Great Britain: unions could mobilize against the government’s austerity policy
The political temperature of the union battle against the government’s austerity programme moved up several notches at the annual gathering of the Trades Union Congress. Prior to it, the general...
11 September 2012
EU: report on the strategies of energy companies and their social and environmental impact
Debt. In the first part, the study talks about the purchases, mergers, and sales of sites and transmission networks done since 2010 and explains the national division of these businesses’...
11 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