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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
Denmark: CSC computing company signs two collective agreements substantially reviewing working conditions
A “historical” defeat for the union. The conflict between PROSA (FTF member) and CSC burst out in February 2011 when the multinational’s management did a lock-out to oppose the strike organized...
11 January 2012
Germany: focus on the election of union representatives in metal firms
Union representatives and WC, two different roles. There are many of them in businesses, working on a voluntary basis and usually ignored by the public: “Vertrauensleute” are unionists defending...
10 January 2012
China: notes from the China Labour Bulletin
“Unity is strength: The Workers’ Movement in China 2009-2011.” The report opens with the story of what happened on May 31, 2010 at the Nanhai Honda automotive components factory when about 200...
9 January 2012
Italy: the Fiom is organizing to reconquer union rights at Fiat
Starting on January 1, 2012, Fiat lost union representation rights at Fiat following the separate agreement of December 13 (see our dispatch No. 110779), the Fiom no longer receives contributions...
9 January 2012
United States: NLRB paralysis avoided for now
On Tuesday, January 4, Barack Obama appointed three new members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB, in charge of enforcing union rights). Indeed, after Craig Becker’s term expired on...
6 January 2012
Poland: negotiations get tougher for the follow-up of the “Anticrisis” Act
The Act of July 1, 2009 on lessening the consequences of the economic downturn (known as the “Anticrisis Act”) expired on December 31, 2011 (see our dispatches No. 090611 and 090555). Thus...
5 January 2012
Germany: even ‘liberal’ economists are calling for high wage increases in 2012
Increases to support German and European growth. “In theory, unions are rights. After several years of wage moderation, the time has come to up the level of wage claims. I think they will know...
5 January 2012
Great Britain: more and more conflicts over pension schemes
008, businesses have been amending their pension schemes (closing defined benefit pensions schemes to new entrants, reforming final salary schemes…) without employees resisting much. After...
4 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...
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