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Romania: Electrolux employees on strike for two weeks
Conflict over the signature of a collective agreement. Since January 24, the Romanian household appliance manufacturing plant owned by the Swedish group has been paralyzed. Why? Because 850...
10 February 2012
Italy: Maschio Gaspardo Group signs agreement safeguarding jobs for the next three years
“We decided to reward our employees’ loyalty and commitment because, as our traditional slogan says, ‘Together Wins.’” This is how Egidio Maschio, CEO and co-founder of Maschio Gaspardo*...
9 February 2012
EU: first meeting of UNI-Europa’s EWC coordinator network
The coordinators’ role. UNI-Europa’s EWC coordinator network is taking shape. The idea isn’t new; for year, the federation has been willing to encourage exchanges between its representatives...
9 February 2012
Italy: Hewlett Packard Italiana signs new company agreement, 25 years after the last one
Workers unanimously approved the agreement, which will be in force between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2014. Here are the key provisions.
9 February 2012
Italy: Banco Popolare introduces sabbatical to combine cost cutting and work-life balance requirements
This “agreement is particularly innovative because it combines banks’ need to save money and workers’ private demands.” This is what Fabi’s Banco Popolare coordination said to define the...
8 February 2012
Germany: for the first time, the IG-Metall plans to put agency workers on strike
“Sectoral bonuses” for agency workers in the metal industry. “We now represent agency workers on many sites (…). Thus, in the spring, there will be a few actions involving temporary workers...
8 February 2012
Spain: the social partners adjust the public system for out-of-court dispute settlement to new collective bargaining stakes
The agreement signed on February 7 aims to improve the role and intervention capability of the public mediation and arbitration system (SIMA), introduced at national level via an interconfederal...
8 February 2012
Germany: researchers warn against the limitations of work-study training
The two sides of work-study training. Work-study training, where theoretical training in a professional school is combined with practical training in a company for two to three years, is one of...
7 February 2012
Italy: the transformation of labor at Pirelli at the center of a play
“The factory is a delicate place of activities and relationships, contrast, but mostly dialogue and original syntheses. (…) Representing its dynamics in the theater is a way of giving the public...
7 February 2012
France: cross-industry negotiations on competitiveness-employment agreements should start soon
Hard for the trade unions to turn this offer down, as doing so would have led to an immediate legislative initiative. Indeed, Premier François Fillon told the press that, in the absence of a...
6 February 2012
Estonia: unions mobilize against the bill on collective agreements
A bill that doesn’t favor negotiations. The current Collective Agreements Act was adopted in 1993 and amended in 2009. It provides that collective agreements come into force the day they are...
6 February 2012
Great Britain: My Civil Service Pension, first experiment for the “Big Society” concept by Prime Minister James Cameron
Around 450 staff in the Department will cease to be public sector employees in March 2012 and become stakeholders in MyCSP (My Civil Service Pension), a privately-owned mutual that will handle the...
3 February 2012
Italy: launch of the Regional Observatory on Enel’s working group in Latium
Enel and the regional structures of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions in Latium signed an agreement, on January 27, on the creation of the Confederal Regional Observatory on the group’s industrial...
2 February 2012
EU: first joint executive committee for the EMF, EMCEF and ETUF:TCL to prepare their coming merger
No to austerity. Michael Vassiliadis, current EMCEF President, will be the new federation’s Chairman; EMF general secretary, Ulrich Eckelmann, will be the new general secretary and Bart Samyn...
2 February 2012
United States: National Oil Bargaining Policy shows will to better prevent accidents
United Steelworkers (USW) announced, on Tuesday, January 31, a few hours before the previous framework agreement, in force since 2009, expired, a new three-year deal with Shell, representing oil...
2 February 2012
Morocco: creation of a union-employers social mediation committee
Failure of the conciliation procedures provided for in the Labor Code. The Union of Moroccan Workers (Union Marocaine des Travailleurs, UMT) and the General Confederation of Moroccan...
1 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