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Romania: end of the Electrolux strike
Back to work. This morning, after 20 days of strike, Electrolux’s Satu Mare plant reopened its doors and normal activity resumed (see our dispatch No. 120099). For 20 days, production had been...
21 February 2012
Germany: IG-Metall accuses BMW of excessively using temporary work
77,000 employees, 11,000 agency workers. Since January 1, 2012, temporary employees receive sectoral minimum wage (see our dispatch No. 110795). However, for the IG-Metall, this precarious form...
20 February 2012
EU: UNI Europa and Postal Euromed sign a cooperation agreement
Revolutions. Created in 2007, Postal Euromed, which gathers operators from 14 Mediterranean countries, is in line with the EU’s Barcelona process, notably aiming to improve economic cooperation...
20 February 2012
Great Britain: the conflict with the seven subcontracting construction firms who left the joint industry board is fading down
The conflict is the result of the attempt by a group of seven large electrical contracting employers to simultaneously cut wage rates by up to 30% and establish a new bargaining forum. The attempt...
20 February 2012
Italy: intensifying movement against the new national banking collective agreement
Dissent over the agreement renewing the banking collective agreement signed on January 19 (see our dispatch No. 120046) is reaching “unprecedented levels” among signing unions and non-union...
17 February 2012
Italy: Confindustria employers’ organization kicks off the procedure for the election of its future President
On Monday, February 13, the Committee of the “Three Wise Men” (Luigi Attanasio, Antonio Bulgheroni and Catervo Cangiotti) officially launched the procedure for the succession of Emma Marcegaglia...
15 February 2012
Germany: 2.7 percent wage increase for Vattenfall’s 15,000 employees
Initially, the wage committee of the three unions (IG BCE, IG-Metall and Verdi) was asking for a 6 percent wage increase, the extension of the job security agreement until 2018, and a new...
15 February 2012
Denmark: agreement renewing the banking collective agreement
“These discussions were unusually long and complicated (…). The economic situation in the sector and in society brought up pressure like I’ve never seen in all my years of conventional...
15 February 2012
Spain: reactions to the decree-law reforming the labor market
Growing union mobilization. Unions immediately openly rejected the labor reform the government adopted on February 10 (see our dispatch No. 120100) and called for protest demonstrations across...
15 February 2012
Germany: demographic ageing at the heart of the coming collective negotiations in the chemical industry
6 percent wage increase. IG BCE leader Michael Vassiliadis says that the high wage increase called for by his union is completely justified because of the flourishing economic situation in the...
14 February 2012
Austria: energy sector avoids a strike and negotiates an increase up to 4.2 percent
The 21,000 employees in the energy sector won’t have to take their banners out to defned their wage increase. While, on Monday, February 13, the preparations for two days of protest were in full...
14 February 2012
Spain: new savings bank collective agreement sets framework for the expected restructurings in the sector
ACARL, the employers’ association of savings banks, and the sector’s majority unions (Comfia-CCOO, FeS-UGT, the Confederation of Independent Savings Bank Unions – CSICA, the Confederation of...
14 February 2012
Greece: pay-related measures of the new austerity program
First, special measures on the definition of wages will prompt the payment of financial aid.
13 February 2012
Austria: call for strike after energy negotiations failed
Two days of protest. Temperatures are going up and therefore risks of blackouts are decreasing just in time as the Pro-GE and GPA-dip unions, in charge of collective bargaining in the energy...
13 February 2012
Denmark: manufacturing social partners sign agreement renewing the collective agreement
“With this agreement, production stays in Denmark (…). We would have liked more but the key for us and our members is that manufacturing jobs in the Danish industry have a future” declared Dansk...
13 February 2012
Great Britain: Apprenticeship Week confirms the government’s strategy
Government commitment. The Apprenticeship Week launched by Business Minister Vince Cable mobilized a certain number of businesses, industrial federations, universities and training centers. Over...
13 February 2012
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026