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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
ThyssenKrupp: IG-Metall union wants to help the American USW union settle in the German steel plant in Alabama
Bullying measures. This conflict isn’t new. For several years now, the IG-Metall has been blaming the German steel giant (180,000 employees, €42 billion in sales in 2009/2010) of “riding...
25 October 2011
International: creation of a trade union federation dedicated to telecom and information technology
On October 20th, in Mexico, about 170 representatives in the sector validate the merger between UNI Telecom and UNI IBITS, the two branches of the international service union, UNI Global. The new...
25 October 2011
Great Britain: unions diversify strike tactics
In mid-October, Unison members at Barnet council in London held a second one-day strike against the proposed contracting out of services and job cuts. In order to get their message across to the...
24 October 2011
Italy: Lombardy strikes deal with major universities to promote high training apprenticeship
Roberto Formigoni, President of Lombardy, signed, on October 18th, with the headmasters of the ten biggest universities in the region (Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano Bicocca, Università...
21 October 2011
Germany: anticipating coming difficulties, the social partners and the Democratic Party are asking for the extension of short-time working measures
Quick appeal to short-time working. In two different declarations, the heads of German employers and trade unions asked that the Merkel administration extended the period during which businesses...
21 October 2011
Spain: union and employers’ organizations strike deal to unfreeze sectoral collective bargaining
tive agreements have been frozen for several years. Therefore, the UGT and Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) unions and the CEOE and Ceypme employers’ organizations signed an agreement to...
20 October 2011
Germany: Airbus signs “Agreement for the Future” with job security until 2020
the Airbus social partners in Germany announced that they finally stroke a “complementary” collective agreement on working conditions and the organization of labor. After months of...
20 October 2011
Germany: the crisis of bonuses Opel gave its works council revives the debate on the remuneration of employee representatives
Infringement to the WC Act. It all started with an article published on October 15th in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily (FAZ) headlined: “Opel bribes employee representatives.” The...
20 October 2011
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5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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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