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Germany: Verdi union calls for a 6 percent wage increase and the improvement of working conditions in banks
End of lean times: after a marginal 1.6 percent wage increase over a year reached in June 2010 (see our dispatch No. 100466), Verdi’s wage committee announced, on January 18, that it would ask...
18 January 2012
Italy: the three key union confederations present a unitary platform to reform the labor market
17, the leaders of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil – Susanna Camusso, Raffaele Bonanni and Luigi Angeletti – kicked off their unitary platform for the labor market reform. In addition to...
18 January 2012
Portugal: new social agreement bans controversial working time increase while adding flexibility
t signed by the Portuguese government, employers and the UGT ends a controversy on the increase of working time with no financial compensation in the private sector. This plan of adding 30 minutes...
18 January 2012
United States: AFL-CIO union launches ad campaign to restore its image
This short spot, which cost $1.5 million, shows men, women, people from minorities, nurses, policemen, firefighters… speaking highly of the value of work. “Work doesn’t separate; it’s what binds...
18 January 2012
Italy: food-processing unions present unitary platform for the renewal of the national collective agreement
The platform will be sent to workers for approval and should be permanently approved by the three organizations’ unitary assembly on February 23-24. here are the key elements.
17 January 2012
Inditex: the international framework agreement the group signed was used to defend union freedom at a Turkish supplier
The envoy of the CCOO Spanish union used Inditex’s framework agreement (AMI with the Spanish initials) to defend labor rights. Isidor Boix, Fiteqa-CCOO representative, went on the premises to...
17 January 2012
Denmark: 3F union helps unemployed members move to Norway
Verto’s local manager, Henning Karlsen, told the union’s newspaper that the region “wasn’t noticing the financial crisis.” Its biggest problem is to “find enough skilled workers for the available...
17 January 2012
Spain: metal social partners sign agreement on the structure of collective bargaining in the sector
The agreement determines negotiation levels (national, local and company collective bargaining) and divides normative competences between them. Thus, it lists topics which will purely be...
16 January 2012
Germany: transport sector worries about the growing shortage of drivers and is starting to increase wages
Recruiting drivers is becoming a major issue. On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, Appearing in court for cheating social contributions up to €44,000, the manager of a transport firm in Bavaria fired...
16 January 2012
Netherlands: disagreements within the Federation of Christian Unions
eration in the Netherlands, the CNV, is going to split, for the same reasons the Federation of Netherlands Unions (FNV) did. The pension reform, once again in question, is driving the ACP union...
16 January 2012
France: government starts work on social VAT and competitiveness-employment agreements three months to the Presidential election
Competitiveness-employment agreements. Clearly drawing inspiration from Germany, and its long-term experience with employment guarantee agreements, the government launched the theme of...
13 January 2012
Italy: government finishes ‘informal’ consultations on the labor market reform
Union positions. Banking on the newfound unity because of the mobilization against the “Monti maneuver” (see our dispatch No. 110775), the leaders of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil – Susanna Camusso...
12 January 2012
Germany: 4 percent wage increase at the Deutsche Post
For the most part, the serenity that governed the negotiations between Deutsche Post and Verdi came from the important profits the Deutsche Post made in 2011, notably because of the boom in...
12 January 2012
Italy: successful Facebook campaign against the relocation of Omsa (Golden Lady Group) to Serbia
Launched by blogger Massimo Malerba (expert in web political campaigns, who initiated, among others, the ‘No Berlusconi Day’) after the layoff, on December 27, of the 329 workers of Omsa’s Faenza...
12 January 2012
Germany: introducing universal minimum wage and equal pay in the temporary sector will be the core of union action in 2012
For universal minimum wage and equal pay in the temporary sector. The first press conference organized by the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), which traditionally marks the beginning...
12 January 2012
Spain: unions and employers cannot agree on all labor market reform issues
The social partners had until January 6 (now January 10) to agree on a labor market reform (see our dispatch No. 110745). When the deadline came, employers and unions sent Premier Mariano Rajoy...
11 January 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