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Spain: wage cuts and mobility, first pitfalls in the negotiations for the new collective agreement in the savings bank industry
With the current inflation forecasts, employers’ offer would mean a 1% pay cut as of 2011, which would have repercussions on the following years. Union representatives said this offer was...
15 May 2011
Italy: Inail’s occupational medicine department publishes “White Paper on exposure to nanomaterials and their impact on workers’ health and safety”
In Italy, nearly 200 structures (57% public and 43% private) are engaged in R&D for nanotechnologies. In 2008, around 670,000 people were said to be working in microelectronics, chemistry...
13 May 2011
United States: rebirth for the National Labor Relations Board
The amendment passed in Arizona recognizes only secret ballot elections as the means for representation elections and prohibits a process known as “card check” with which a majority of employees...
13 May 2011
EU: ETUC 12th Congress to open in Athens on may 16th
Representatives from 82 organizations and 12 sectoral federations from 36 European countries, representing about 60 million members, are expected on May 16th in Athens, a few days after the 10th...
12 May 2011
Italy: Cisl and Uil union confederations get closer
The Cisl and Uil’s confederal secretariats met on May 5th for “joint confrontation on the most important themes of the labor world, with an economic situation characterized by recovery that goes...
12 May 2011
Great Britain: latest statistics on union membership show that the fall continues
Union density - the relative measure of the percentage of all workers who are members of a union - fell by 0.8% from 27.4% in 2009 to 26.6% in 2010. Union membership in absolute terms fell by...
11 May 2011
France Telecom: first meeting for the global works council
Introduced via an agreement signed on June 23, 2010 by the telecom, the six French unions present in the company, the global union alliance UNI France Telecom, gathering unions recognized by the...
11 May 2011
International: towards the creation of a global manufacturing union federation
Statuses. The task for created last year in preparation for the creation of a global manufacturing union met in Frankfurt on May 5th. Its 37 members, representing the three union organizations...
11 May 2011
IBM: creation of a global union alliance
Cooperation. The agreement is a first in terms of cross-industry union cooperation. European and international metal and service representatives commit themselves to “work together at global...
10 May 2011
Greece: general strike on May 11th against the new austerity measures envisioned by the government
Columnist Giorgos Kyrtsos thinks the country’s bailout is a failure, in spite of the severe austerity policy implemented. “Wealth production is declining, recession is raging, there aren’t enough...
10 May 2011
Austria: 3.05% increase for the 45,000 employees of the chemical industry
It was after their third meeting that the social partners in the Austrian chemical industry – second industry in the country in terms of value produced – agreed on wage increases that show the...
9 May 2011
Italy: CGIL rejoices with the success of its general strike against the Berlusconi administration’s economic policy
“We’re the best part of Italy, the one that doesn’t cave or accept the country’s decline, and we don’t deserve this government.” Susanna Camusso, in her speech closing the big Naples...
9 May 2011
Belgium: commerce unions demand harmonization of working conditions for employees
Social dumping. One year after the creation of a working committee on the harmonization of social dialogue bodies in the commerce industry (equal committees No. 202, 202.01, 201, 311 and 312)...
9 May 2011
Germany: after the temporary sector, surveillance is getting sectoral minimum wage
Germany’s solutions to wage dumping. The government has kept its promise. To protect German workers against the risk of social dumping with the opening of the labor market to eastern European...
6 May 2011
Denmark: young people at the center of the recruitment policies of unions increasing their membership
While many LO historical unions are busy combating their member hemorrhage (see our dispatch No. 110301), many AC unions show historical recruitment scores, sporting a constantly increasing...
5 May 2011
EU: Michael Wolters elected EMCEF general secretary
Objectives. “Our three sectors are gathered within a single union in many European countries, hence this merger. My goal is to reach an acceptable compromise for our affiliates” explained...
5 May 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