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Great Britain: Sodexo signs union recognition agreement with the three biggest unions in Britain
The agreement sets out terms of the formal relationship between Sodexo and the three unions in terms of a strategic partnership. It also identifies the guiding principles for the relationship...
6 July 2011
Italy: Assolombarda employers’ organization and Milan unions sign agreement on training during a crisis
“With this agreement, the social partners in Milan sought to apply the principle included in the Lombardian pacts for active labor policies 2011 which states that company union agreements on...
6 July 2011
Belgium: draft banking collective agreement 2011-2012
Buying power. The political unrest Belgium is going through as well as turmoil in the euro area didn’t make bargaining easy in the banking sector. The economic and financial crisis had an impact...
4 July 2011
Finland: unions and employers allegedly reached an agreement on the principle of extending paternity and parental leave
A secret five-page document released by the Nykypäivä weekly, close to the Rally for the Republic (Kokoomus, right wing), shows that key union and employers’ organizations in the country have...
4 July 2011
Germany: computer specialists earned 3.4% more in 2010
Wage increases for German computer specialists have gone up again in 2010, with a 3.4% increase. In 2009, during the crisis, it was only 2%. “This much higher increase is the consequence of...
4 July 2011
Italy: new “Pact supporting and reviving competitiveness and employment” in pharmaceutical chemistry
The objective of this pact is to answer the needs in the sector, where production started increasing again in 2010 (+6%), where employment decreased less than in previous years (-1.4%) but where...
4 July 2011
Germany: GDL train drivers’ union intensifies strike movement against private rail companies
Intimidatory measures against strikers. Since last February, the GDL corporatist union has been trying, via massive strikes, to force the Deutsche Bahn’s key private rivals to adopt three...
4 July 2011
Great Britain: public sector unions start mobilizing against the pension reform
The action was taken by members of the PCS civil servants union, ATL and NUT teachers’ unions and the college and university union, the UCU. In the run up to the action, the tone of the government...
1 July 2011
Fiat-Chrysler: creation of a global union network
Global union network. The primary goal of the meeting was to create a global union network. The network will mostly work via email and will meet once a year at the EWC meeting. It will be...
1 July 2011
Sweden: calls for wage moderation brought things to a head at the LO confederation just before the start of the fall negotiations
Konjunkturinstitutet’s report brings things to a head. On May 18th, Konjunkturinstitutet published an analysis on the evolution of pay and recommended that the coming increases do not exceed 3.1%...
30 June 2011
Sweden: the social partners create a Council on development in the industry
5 trade unions permanently signed: GS (union of workers in the graphic, forest and wood sector), IF Metall (metalworkers’ union), Livs (union of food employees), Sveriges Ingenjörer (union of...
30 June 2011
Italy: social partners sign historical agreement on union representativeness and the scope of company agreements
“This agreement puts an end to a long season of separation between us” declared Emma Marcegaglia, leader of Confindustria, when presenting the unitary interconfederal agreement signed after six...
29 June 2011
Germany: the 170,000 employees in the printing industry get the extension of the framework collective agreement
Maintaining the 35-hour workweek.
Frank Wernecke, Verdi chief negotiator,
said this agreement would not have been possible without the involvement of
employees with the warning strikes...
29 June 2011
Great Britain: more deaths at work
171 deaths. The organization in charge of health at work, the Health and Safety (HSE), released, on June 28th, provisional data on deaths at work. With 171 workers killed this year, the rate of...
29 June 2011
Morocco: 70% of employees who paid contributions are not getting pension
According to the CNSS, out of the 84,477 people who reached retirement age in 2010, only 25,262 had the 3,240 days required to receive pension. This figures mean that 70% of employees who pay...
27 June 2011
Netherlands: bigger increase for low wages at TNT Express
An agreement in principle was reached on April 24th between TNT Express (logistics, express delivery of documents and packages, the rival of DHL and FedEx), in preparation for the next collective...
27 June 2011
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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...
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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