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Italy: Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl, and Uilcem-Uil unions commit to present unitary platforms for the renewal of their sectoral collective agreements
Opening the season of the renewal of agreements in chemistry-pharmacy, rubber, plastic, energy and oil, and gas and water, affecting approximately 450,000 workers, the managements of the...
27 May 2012
Germany: chemistry collective negotiations lead to a 4.5 percent wage increase and a “demographic corridor”
This year, in the race for wage increases, the chemical industry hasn’t done better than the metal industry which, a few days ago, secured a 4.3 percent increase over 13 months (see our dispatch...
25 May 2012
Denmark: government kicks off tripartite negotiations on social reforms
Increase working time to add 20,000 jobs to the labor market in 2020, thus enriching the State by DKK 4 billion (€ 538,268,228) a year – that’s the government’s key objective for the tripartite...
24 May 2012
Temporary work: study by the Prisme French employers’ organization, “crossed perspective in France and Europe in 2012” on representation and opinions on temporary work in four European countries
Temporary work more skilled in France. Aged 24 in average, French temporary workers mostly start temporary work after being unemployed (54 percent). A major change, more students and graduates...
23 May 2012
Ferrovial: international framework agreement signed with the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI)
This agreement contains the commitment to comply with union freedom and the right to collective bargaining, with a commitment beyond neutrality since it reads that the company will “adopt a...
23 May 2012
Italy: 20th Istat survey reports on ‘rough patch’ for Italian economy
Istat CEO Enrico Giovanni presented the latest annual report on May 22, explaining this ‘rough patch’ for the country’s economy. Unlike last year (see our dispatch No. 110379), he says that...
23 May 2012
Spain: last-ditch stand for unions against the labor market reform
Spend one night and one day protesting against a useless, unfair and detrimental reform. It is a way of reminding that unions won’t give in and will keep fighting “night and day” against a...
23 May 2012
Belgium: liberals pass 10 percent mark in social election
Victory. The increase in the number of candidates suggested that the CGLSB’s liberals were going to do well (see our dispatch No. 120303). And they did, passing the symbolic 10 percent mark...
23 May 2012
GM Europe: increasingly uncertain future for the Bochum site in Germany after the new Astra was given to Ellesmere Port (UK) and Gliwice (Poland) in return for concessions on labor organization
Is GM going to shut Bochum down after 2014? Since Opel’s management confirmed, on May 17 – Ascension Day – that it intended to produce its flagship car, the new Astra, only in Ellesmere Port, UK...
22 May 2012
Germany: IG-Metall signs new agreement introducing “recruitment bonuses” for temporary workers in the metal industry
Bonuses varying with the length of assignment. Like the 3.6 million metalworkers who will soon receive their highest wage increase in 20 years (see our dispatch No. 120326), temporary workers in...
22 May 2012
Spain: Workers’ Commissions asks the government for rigor and transparency on the injection of public funds into banks
Carlos Bravo, member of CCOO’s executive committee, presented his analysis of the financial reform published in the State Official Journal on Saturday, May 12. Here are a few excepts.
22 May 2012
Great Britain: employees at General Motors Ellesmere Port sign concessions agreement to keep their job
GM. The decision by General Motors (GM) to locate the building of the new Astra at its Ellesmere Port factory on Merseyside - rather than at a German plant – has secured 2,100 jobs at the...
21 May 2012
Germany: metalworkers get a 4.3 percent wage increase and more advantageous rules for apprentices and temporary workers
Highest increase in 20 years. Confirming once again that Baden-Württemberg is
a pilot region, the metal social partners in this southeastern Land managed to
put an end to a conflict threatening...
20 May 2012
Norway: new agreement in construction industry
e. This is why everyone was relieved when a last-minute agreement was reached on April 21 for the sector’s 6,000 employees, between the Byggenæringens Landsforening employers’...
20 May 2012
EU: IndustriALL European Trade Union created
, on May 16, the 200 organizations affiliated with the three European trade union federations – the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF), European...
20 May 2012
Germany: a 6.5 percent wage increase and job security for the 18,500 employees of T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary
Employment guarantee extended until the end of 2013. Punctuated by major warning strikes, the collective negotiations between Verdi and DTAG finally ended on May 15 with a last agreement, this...
16 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