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Germany: innovating working time system for chemistry staff in eastern Länder
A system for Germany as a whole. The chemistry social partners took nearly one year to reach an agreement on working time in “East chemistry,” meaning for the staff of businesses located in...
3 November 2011
Netherlands: discrimination is commonplace in temporary agencies
The two researchers, Anne Backer and Evelien Loeters, got in touch with 187 agencies across the country, claiming that they were looking for staff for a call center that doesn’t exist. Each time...
2 November 2011
Denmark: 2nd edition of the union campaign, “Last working day for women”
Organized, among others, by the FOA, HK and 3F unions, with the support of the National Network for Equal Pay, (Det Nationale Ligelønsnetværk, see our dispatch No. 080226), this campaign provides...
2 November 2011
Germany: 4% increase for rubber employees
The IG BCE union claims that, from January 1, 2012, the 25,000 employees in the rubber industry will get a first 3% increase, followed by a 1% increase on April 1, 2012. They will also receive a...
2 November 2011
Great Britain: UCATT construction workers’ union to elect general secretary with an internal war in the background
Four candidates became eligible to stand in the forthcoming election having obtained sufficient branch nominations to be placed on the ballot paper. These were the previous incumbent Alan...
2 November 2011
United States: Occupy movement increasingly present in the field of working conditions
At the side of the Occupy movement for a month (see our dispatch No. 110600), trade unions are now getting the Occupants’ support, although the latter are rarely union members. In Washington...
2 November 2011
Finland: new sectoral agreement in the technological industry
Training and division of the wage increases: the problem of transposing the framework agreement in the sectors. The framework agreement signed on October 13th between the Akava, SAK and STTK...
1 November 2011
Germany: Angela Merkel’s CDU is ready to break the taboo on universal minimum wage
Wages defined by the social partners. Until now, the idea of universal minimum wage being introduced in Germany before the end of the Merkel administration in 2013 seemed completely unreal. At...
1 November 2011
United States: AT&T to give priority to the applications of retired former employees
The agreement reached by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and AT&T after two years of legal battle reminds that the only possible grounds for denying an application are the...
30 October 2011
Italy: banking social partners sign agreement supervising collective bargaining
The Dircredito-FD, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub, UGL Credito and Uilca union organizations and the ABI employers' organization signed, on October 24th, a framework agreement on collective...
28 October 2011
United States: National Labor Relations Board under heavy Republican fire
Undo what the NLRB has done. Anticipating its coming paralysis (see our dispatch No. 110509), the NLRB has been multiplying strong actions and rulings facilitation unionization. But this was...
28 October 2011
Italy: towards the application of the “Pomigliano model” in all Fiat undertakings in Italy
Uil, Fim, Uilm and Fismic unions on October 25th, Fiat confirmed its programs for its Italian undertakings and got unions’ consent for the negotiation of a single collective agreement for...
27 October 2011
Italy: the city of Milan and unions sign an agreement on continuous dialogue
After the center-left won the municipal election last may, the Italian economic capital is launching a new season of union relations, with the watchwords “Dialogue, involvement, sharing.” Mayor...
27 October 2011
Italy: CGIL youth kick off the new campaign “Rights and no words”
The tone was set by a flash mob in downtown Rome on the morning of October 24th, where young activists dressed as cooks got a pan out and gave passers-by notes on which were sentences summarizing...
26 October 2011
Great Britain: employers launch protocol removing disabled candidates’ recruitment barriers
Adjust recruitment. The EFD is an association of employers who work on facilitating recruitment and businesses with people with a disability. On October 20th, affiliated employers met and...
26 October 2011
Italy: Fiom-CGIL metalworkers’ federation gives positive report of the national Fiat/Fincantieri strike
With the motto “Democracy, contract, labor,” the Fiom organized the first national demonstration of Fiat’s workers on the Piazza del Popolo also involving the workers of Fiat and Fincantieri’s...
25 October 2011
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Oliver Dietrich (IG Metall): “The advent of AI can be a means of deepening social partnership within companies”
In Germany, trade unions want to influence how AI is deployed in companies. Oliver Dietrich is an AI project manager at the regional office of the IG Metall trade union in North Rhine-Westphalia...
21 January 2026
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EU: social partners split over competitiveness and action on job quality
The European Trade Union Confederation and BusinessEurope have published their response to the consultation document on the European Commission's upcoming EU quality jobs initiative. The two...
4 February 2026
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Germany: collective bargaining negotiations begin in chemical industry
Collective bargaining talks in Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are due to open this week, covering nearly 580,000 employees across around 1,700 companies. With the sector facing...
3 February 2026
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Germany: standoff over national plan to boost collective bargaining
Under the EU Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, Germany is required to produce an action plan to boost collective bargaining coverage. That plan has stalled, however, after being blocked by the...
9 February 2026
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Italy: new generational renewal agreement penned at UniCredit
The agreement signed on 30 December by UniCredit, Italy’s second-largest banking group, with the Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions aims to continue generational...
15 January 2026
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France: social partner talks extend far beyond contractual terminations
After a false start on 3 December, French social partners resumed talks on 7 January 2026 on potential changes to the unemployment insurance agreement, including the rules governing compensation...
12 January 2026