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Belgium: joint union front calls general strike on January 30
Dialogue. They denounce the lack of social dialogue that comes with the adoption and implementation of the measures. Shortly after the government’s agreement in early December providing for...
23 January 2012
Italy: banking social partners renew national collective agreement
The “best possible outcome for union organizations without a second of strike.” This is how Lando Maria Sileoni, leader of FABI, the majority union in the sector, qualified this agreement. ...
23 January 2012
Spain: agreement on the new collective agreement in the construction sector
The representatives of the national construction confederation (CNC) and of the MCA-UGT and FECOMA-CCOO union organizations signed, on January 20, the 2012-2016 agreement. The end of the debates...
23 January 2012
Norway: after the January 18 strike, key unions are rejecting the transposition of the European directive on temporary work
Political strike to reject the transposition of the Directive. Norway, along with EU countries, Iceland and Liechtenstein, is part of the European Economic Area and, as such, benefits from the...
23 January 2012
Germany: in 2011, worked and saved working hours and the work week increased
More work, more overtime, more working people. The number of hours worked in Germany increased in 2011. over the 3rd 2011 quarter, 11,776 million hours were worked, i.e. 1.3 percent more than...
20 January 2012
Poland: union organizations suspend participation in the Tripartite Committee
Joint initiative. It was the first time the leaders of the three union confederations (Piotr Duda of NSZZ Solidarnosc, Tadeusz Chwalka of the Union Forum (FZZ) and Jan Guz of OPZZ) organized a...
19 January 2012
Great Britain: future merger between PCS and Unite is taking shape
The unions are not yet in formal merger talks Serwotka made clear in a recent interview with the Financial Times newspaper that he wanted to keep deepening the ‘ever closer developing...
19 January 2012
Compass: agreement with the IUF international union federation on union freedom at Eurest Algeria
Complaint. Seized by workers at Eurest, a company located in southern Algeria responsible for catering in several multinationals in the region, the IUF filed a complaint, on December 14, 2009...
18 January 2012
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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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