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Ireland: social partners call for adjustments to the pension reform
Retirement age defined in the labor contract. “The simple reality is that neither employers nor employees are prepared for the situation now facing them from 2014” Brendan McGinty, IBEC...
26 April 2012
Italy: it seems that the majority of unions have accepted the layoff reform
The interpretation of new Article 18 of the Statute of Workers is not unanimous. The management of the CGIL, gathered on April 19 and the management of the Cisl, gathered the day before...
26 April 2012
Germany: eurozone crisis causes Ford to appeal to short-time working
Short-time working for Ford. The warning signs of another crisis in the automotive industry or simple, passing weakness? Ford appealing to short-time working shows that Germany too is starting...
26 April 2012
Great Britain: conflict could be avoided thanks to negotiations between Unite and fuel tankers
The parties in the fuel tanker drivers’ dispute have continued to search for an agreement to resolve the dispute, putting off the onset of strike action on three occasions. After the announcement...
25 April 2012
Austria: the biggest metal employers’ organization wants to secede for collective negotiations
The biggest sectoral federation wants to negotiate individually. The fall collective bargaining session in the metal industry wasn’t supposed to start in the spring. However, it is pretty much...
25 April 2012
Germany: Sany, the Chinese group, grants employees at Putzmeister, German manufacturer of concrete pumps, job security until 2020
Concern in Germany. It was in the media that, at the end of January, Putzmeister staff heard that their company was sold by its founder, Karl Schlecht, to Chinese billionaire Liang Wengen...
25 April 2012
Netherlands: impact of the Mark Rutte administration’s fall
From employers’ point of view, the Mark Rutte administration is falling at the worst possible time. The country is in the middle of recession, with unemployment growing (5.9 percent in March) and...
24 April 2012
Germany: unions disagree on employers’ high salaries
Debate over employers’ high salaries. In 2001, most German multinationals made a lot of profit. And record profit means record pay. Let’s give three examples only: Martin Winterkorn, CEO of...
24 April 2012
Italy: new Confindustria leader presents new team and new program
With 102 votes in favor, 21 against and 22 abstentions, Confindustria’s Giunta approved, on April 19, the program and team set up by Giorgio Squinzi, the organization’s new leader (see our...
24 April 2012
United States: three American Airlines unions back US Airways’ offer
The lawyers of American Airlines (AMR) have an exclusive right until the end of September to present the Court with their project and try to secure the termination of the current labor contracts. ...
24 April 2012
Greece: employers ask for pay cuts in the negotiations for the trade and hotel sectors
Trade sector. Employers in trade and small and medium-size businesses asked for pay cuts around 10-11 percent during the first meeting between the representatives of National Confederation of...
23 April 2012
Denmark: workers ratify the agreements renewing national collective agreements in the private sector with record abstention rates
‘No’ votes fueled by fear of social dumping. 92 percent of the members of the Blik-og Rørarbejderforbundet construction union voted no, while other construction unions rejected the agreement with...
23 April 2012
United States: overtime pay claims are going back up
At the lowest, during the recession, the number of lawsuits filed was up 32 percent versus 2008 in the US, according to USA Today. The millions of job cuts after the crisis broke out didn’t...
23 April 2012
Spain: unions call for a day of mobilization on April 29 to defend social rights and public services
The government’s projects includes reducing free health care, co-funding of medicine for pensioners who used to be exempt, more students in the classroom and more teaching hours for teachers.
23 April 2012
PSA/GM Alliance: the two carmakers’ union representatives form an ‘Alliance’ to monitor their managements’ Alliance
In the statement released after the meeting, the EMF points out, “thousands of jobs, not only in Europe, but also on the global level, are at stake. It is also clear that the “alliance” will...
20 April 2012
Finland: Nokia Siemens unions fight two battles to manage restructurings
In Finland, where NSN employed 7,200 people at the end of 2011, the cuts should affect 700 people in Espoo, 150 in Oulu and 350 in Tempere. The unions concerned – Metalliliitto, Pro, UIM and TEK...
20 April 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