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Netherlands: cleaning agents on strike
Negotiations for the next collective agreement covering cleaning agents are at a standstill: unions fixed an ultimatum on January 1 for the OSB employers’ organization to accept their conditions. ...
2 January 2012
Italy: separate collective agreement in the automotive sector based on Fiat’s “Pomigliano model”
In order to convince Fiat to return to Confindustria, Federmeccanica for employers and the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil, Fismic and UGLM-UGL unions signed a separate agreement, on December 22, on "special...
2 January 2012
Spain: Seat signs draft agreement linking pay to productivity
er, Seat (Volkswagen group) and the UGT union, which represents a majority of workers in the company, signed an agreement in principle on the new collective agreement 2011-2015. For the first...
23 December 2011
Denmark: businesses relocating to Denmark bank on the Scandinavian working culture
the magazine published by the Fødevareforbundet NNF food workers’ union dedicated 12 pages to businesses in the sector relocating the greater part of their production to Denmark...
23 December 2011
Brazil: Zara strikes deal with Brazilian court following the slavery scandal
ant is going to invest EUR 1.4 million in Brazil to prevent slave labor in the textile industry, by virtue of the agreement signed with the Brazilian labor prosecution. In doing so, the Court is...
22 December 2011
Italy: union unity stronger because of concerns over Mario Monti’s labor reform
erations are tightening their ranks after the Minister of Labor announced the possibility of reviewing Article 18 of the Workers’ Statute which provides that employers have to re-hire any...
21 December 2011
Germany: for the first time, the temporary sector is setting up sectoral minimum wage
kel administration introduced, on December 20, via a decree, sectoral minimum wage in the temporary sector. Starting on January 1, 2012, the sector’s approximately 900,000 employees will...
21 December 2011
Portugal: creation of a new service confederation to boost employers’ representation
ese Services (CSP) created a group with the major employers’ organizations in the service, retail and telecom industry. The new confederation represents 20 percent of the country’s GDP...
21 December 2011
Austria: average 3.65 percent increase in computer services
rtners in the Austrian computing industry agreed on an average 3.65 percent wage increase for the sector’s 40,000 employees on January 1, 2012. The lowest wages will get a 4.1 percent...
21 December 2011
Italy: unitary transport strike blocks Italy once again
After a successful strike last spring (see our dispatch No. 110225), Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugltrasporti, Orsa, Faisa-Cisal and Fast did it again on December 15-16. They claim the...
19 December 2011
Morocco: call centers are unionizing
Union membership is gaining ground. Lately, Total Call, a call center working for French contractors, has experienced its first strike. The first social conflict of a call center working with...
17 December 2011
EU: European Commission uploads database on transnational company agreements
This database contains all transnational agreements and texts identified and catalogued by the project’s partners (Aritake Wild, Wilke Maack Partners and Planet Labor, which led the project). ...
17 December 2011
United States: uncertainty over the imminent NLRB freeze
Two weeks after the charges against Boeing, angering the Republicans (see our dispatches No. 110743 and 110655), Barack Obama appointed two members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). ...
16 December 2011
Greece: pay cuts in banking
In a letter to the Piraeus Bank staff, Director General Stravros Lekkakos presented his proposal. The proportional pay cuts will be as follows:
15 December 2011
Randstad: adjusting the anticipation agreement establishing a EWC to the recast directive
Adaptation. Signed in 1996, the agreement creating a European social dialogue structure was revised in 2009, during the transposition of the new EWC directive. Since it is an anticipation...
15 December 2011
Netherlands: limiting union power in the offing
The restructuring, planned for the summer 2012, of the country’s key trade union, the Federation of Netherlands Unions and Allies (FNV), is opening the possibility of limiting unions’ power. ...
15 December 2011
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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