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Great Britain: government wants to introduce regional pay rates across the public sector
Prior to the Budget of 21 March 2012, the government had asked the four Pay Review Bodies for NHS workers, schoolteachers, operational staff in public sector prisons and civil servants to examine...
29 March 2012
Austria: union membership stable after 20 years down
Stabilization is almost established. The Austrian Trade Union Confederation says a ‘turn’ was made in 2011. After seeing its size shrink for 20 years, the ÖGB only experienced a 0.4 percent...
28 March 2012
Germany: the GdF airline security union will not pay damages to the airlines
The right to strike reinforced by the decree. On April 6, 2009,air traffic controllers at the Stuttgart control tower stopped working for 6 hours to support their colleagues – ground traffic...
28 March 2012
United States: NLRB launches information campaign on employees’ rights at work
The information campaign is going to address rights regarding pay, working time, safety at work…. These rights, covered by the National Labor Relations Act, give employees the right to take part...
28 March 2012
Air France/KLM: new framework agreement supervising the restructuring of outstations in European airports
International outstations in European airports are subject to restructurings because of technological change and the search for synergies between KLM and Air France. To manage these...
27 March 2012
Austria: tourism unions call for a 20 percent increase in sectoral minimum wage
“Tourism is a key sector in the Austrian economy which employers keep presenting as a success story. The number of overnight stays and customers keeps breaking records. In spite of all this...
27 March 2012
United States: UAW started gathering signatures to organize the Volkswagen plant
On Friday, March 23, Reuters announced that the United Auto Workers union (UAW) started, earlier this month, to ask employees from Volkswagen’s American plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) to sign a...
27 March 2012
Opel: the carmaker’s European employee representatives united against possible future site closures
Standing united. Wolfgang Nettelstroth, spokesman for the IG-Metall metalworkers’ union in North Rhine-Westphalia, told Planet Labor that all of Opel’s European employee representatives agreed on...
26 March 2012
Great Britain: mobilization against the public sector pension reforms continues but cannot seem to find its gravity center
It was from amongst these unions that the 28 March date was identified as the next date for coordinated strike action. In the run up to the intended national strike, these unions carried out...
26 March 2012
Italy: mobilization against the reform of Article 18 is starting
Today, March 23, the 10th anniversary of the large demonstration the CGIL organized against the reform of Article 18, forcing the then Berlusconi administration to withdraw the bill, the Council...
23 March 2012
Sweden: negotiations in steel and metal are over
“Red” agreement. Agreements are given a defined color depending on the businesses they affect. The “red” agreement (röda avtal) is for private undertakings affiliated with the Stål och Metall...
23 March 2012
Italy: Giorgio Squinzi, new President of the Confindustria employers’ organization
“My goal is to be everyone’s President” Giorgio Squinzi said at a press conference yesterday morning, March 22, after he was elected as the new President of the Confindustria employers’...
22 March 2012
Austria: spring collective bargaining schedule in the industry
The PRO-GE and GPA-djp unions released their schedule for the spring collective negotiations in manufacturing. They affect about 120,000 employees. As negotiations in the electrical and...
22 March 2012
Italy: consultation on labor law reform ends with another union break
Mario Monti, President of the Italian Council, said, “It will be the government’s reform, and we will be liable for it before Parliament.” His ‘technical’ government could succeed where...
21 March 2012
Germany: cooperation framework agreement between Bulgarian and German unions to improve the working conditions of Bulgarian workers in Germany
Inhumane working conditions. Gathering unionists and political decision-makers from Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania, the international conference was dedicated to the risks and...
21 March 2012
Portugal: CGTP calls for general strike on March 22 against austerity and the Labor Code reform
General strike. The CGTP issued a 24-hour strike notice for March 22 to protest against the government’s austerity policy and Labor Code reform. The union organization believes that the...
21 March 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