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Germany: 5.4 percent increase over 26 months in the banking sector
The banking social partners agreed on a 5.4 percent wage increase divided in 2 on the night of Wednesday, June 6. Signed for 26 months, this agreement affects about 230,000 employees. Showing...
7 June 2012
EU: European Trade Union Confederation tries social offensive
Gathered on June 5-6, the ETUC's executive committee adopted a resolution for a Social Compact for Europe, with which the union confederation is hoping to launch a great debate in the coming...
7 June 2012
Poland: social partners launch negotiations to review certain Labor Code provisions
During the meeting of the tripartite committee (working committee on 'labor law and collective agreements') on June 1, 2012, the social partners started reviewing the provisions of Book No. 6 of...
6 June 2012
GDF SUEZ: new European agreement on professional equality between women and men
GDF SUEZ and the EPSU (public service) and IndustriALL European trade union (which is signing its first transnational agreement here) signed, on June 5, a European agreement on professional...
4 June 2012
Norway: new transportation agreement focuses on developing skills
On May 20, Yrkestrafikkforbund (YS - transport workers' union), Transportarbeiderforbund (Norwegian Transport Workers' Union) and the NHO transport employers' organization finally reached an...
4 June 2012
Germany: introduction of minimum wage stopped in retail trade
The plan to introduce minimum wage in retail trade has failed, for now. For over three years, the sector's social partners have been negotiating an agreement introducing minimum wage. However, a...
4 June 2012
Sweden: bargaining over in telecom industry
The Almega employers' organization recently ended negotiations in the telecom industry after signing an agreement with Unionen (private sector union). After signing an agreement with SEKO...
4 June 2012
Italy: new company agreement at Volkswagen Group Italia implements international agreement on employee participation
The subsidiary of Volkswagen Group Italia (VGI) in charge of selling vehicles and spare parts for the German carmaker signed an innovative agreement with the trade unions on the basis of the...
4 June 2012
Denmark: traditional unions keep going historically down
In spite of a slight decrease in the number of workers because of the crisis, the unionization rate has gone from 66.9 up to 67.3 percent, with 8,000 new members between 2011 and 2012, due to the...
3 June 2012
Areva: golden rules for the implementation of the European agreement on competences forecast
During a meeting organized on May 29-30 within the framework of the development of the European agreement on competences forecast signed in 2011, 50 representatives from personnel, management and...
3 June 2012
Norway: new agreement in logistics and freight provides for new night work organization
The agreement signed on May 13 has removed the strike threat in cargo and freight transport, particularly in the Schenker Norway, Tollpost Glob and DHL international firms. In the end, the...
1 June 2012
Germany: 4.3 percent wage increase at Volkswagen
It comes as no surprise that Volkswagen’s social partners aligned themselves – with a few differences – with the agreement signed in the metal industry on May 19 (see our dispatch No. 120326). ...
31 May 2012
Spain: call for indefinite strike in coal industry
The miners’ movement is growing. Mobilization in the mining industry started a few weeks ago with punctual days of strike. As interlocutors failed to respond, unions decided to increase the...
31 May 2012
Germany: nearly one in two employees gets holiday bonus
A recent survey by the WSI Institute of Economic and Social Research of the Hans-Böckler Foundation found that 46 percent of German employees get a holiday bonus (Urlaubsgeld). This bonus...
30 May 2012
Luxembourg: insurance social partners sign new collective agreement
Mobilization. While the insurance sector is doing well in the Netherlands, employees and unions don’t understand why the Association of Insurance Firms (ACA) is calling for a 50 percent cut to...
30 May 2012
Great Britain: PCS and Unite services unions are getting closer while RMT and TSSA transport unions are having a hard time taking it to the next level
Industrially, there is logic to the two unions working together where they both have members employed by the same organisations. However, this degree of overlap is relatively small, given that the...
28 May 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