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United States: new contract between machinists’ union and Lockheed Martin
After over two months on strikes, the association of machinists at Lockheed Martin accepted a two-tier pension system in Forth Worth, Texas. The management of Lockheed Martin and the...
27 June 2012
Germany: Verdi union gets better working and pay conditions for the employees of Deutsche Bank’s subsidiaries
More time off, more money and a shorter workweek. Verdi claims that about 2,000 employees from 5 Deutsche Bahn service companies – PBC Services GmbH (account management), Kredit Service GmbH...
26 June 2012
United States: Supreme Court defends employees’ rights to not pay for unions’ political activities
In the United States, in businesses covered by a collective agreement, employers and unions may decide to impose a union (closed or union shop) or, without forcing them to join, having them take...
26 June 2012
Walmart: new union alliance on the African continent
On June 19-20, in Johannesburg, South Africa, UNI Global Union launched the UNI Africa Walmart Union Alliance. Unions are denouncing an expansion strategy that is detrimental to local employment...
25 June 2012
Italy: Rome Court sentences Fiat to reinstate 145 Fiom-CGIL members in Pomigliano plant
Since none of its members were reinstated, the Fiom sued Fabbrica Italia Pomigliano (Fip), Fiat's newco managing the plant in Campania, for discrimination. The Court gave the union satisfaction...
25 June 2012
Italy: General signs groundbreaking agreement on employment protection
The text is made up of four chapters. The first lays down the ground principle: Italian jobs will be maintained and the group commits not to appeal to compulsory redundancies if jobs need to be...
25 June 2012
Spain: FITEQA-CCOO general secretary talks about the company agreement at Adolfo Dominguez cutting pay to save jobs
Joaquim González Muntadas. I wanted to show the extremely difficult situation businesses, unions and employees are in. It is true that it isn’t common for unions to point to the value of...
25 June 2012
Great Britain: success for London bus drivers
After a number of last minute developments, the one-day strike by bus drivers across London did go ahead on Friday 22 June. These developments included money being made available to meet the bus...
25 June 2012
Netherlands: coming negotiations on the “quality” of employees relations at Ikea
Ikea’s Dutch employees will get a 2 percent wage increase. Ikea was founded in Sweden but the headquarters are in Delft, Netherlands. The increase will come into force on October 1, 2012, at the...
25 June 2012
International: new global manufacturing union federation
Over 800 delegates representing metalworkers, textile workers and chemical workers from 140 countries took part in this event, prepared by the managing structures of the three founding unions for...
21 June 2012
Austria: Women’s Ministry launches program to promote women in businesses
Small-steps policy in a labor world where women are underrepresented. Like most European countries, Austria is no exception to the growing debates and claims about women’s role in businesses. In...
21 June 2012
Italy: unions and government still divided over the issue of “left-out” workers
Government and unions have been fighting over the number of “left-out” workers for months. Besides, last week, the National Social Welfare Institution (INPS) released figures saying that 390,000...
21 June 2012
Luxembourg: OGBL adopts action plan for September
Minimum wage. During this meeting, OGBL leader Jean-Claude Reding denounced what he considers a bank debt crises rather than a State debt crisis. The union sounded the alarm about the impact...
21 June 2012
Germany: temporary workers to receive “recruitment bonuses” in the chemical industry in November 2012
Gap closing between permanent and temporary pay. Four weeks after the agreement signed by the IG-Metall (see our dispatch No. 120331), the IG BCE chemistry union signed, with the Federal Union...
20 June 2012
Netherlands: Ton Heerts, new FNV general secretary
The FNV is changing its name and its leader but is still close to the Labor Party (PVDA), as we can see with the appointment of Ton Heerts, former head of the Labor Parliament Group (2006-10), to...
20 June 2012
Great Britain: 20,000 london bus drivers on strike on 22 June to secure an Olympic Games bonus
Employees voted for strike action across the 21 bus operators by an average of 94% on an average 38% turnout after their employers refused to agree to a bonus for the extra workload caused by the...
19 June 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