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Belgium: mediation on the 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement
Six years ago, when the FGTB rejected the 2005-2006 draft cross-industry agreement, the government enforced it anyway. This time around, the situation is somewhat different. First, the socialist...
14 February 2011
Italy: gas and water social partners sign unitary agreement for the renewal of the sector’s CCN
After two general sectoral strikes and over 13 months of “exhausting” negotiations, yesterday February 10th, Anfida, Anigas, Assogas, Federestrattiva, Confindustria-Energia, Federutility for...
11 February 2011
Italy: independent unions proclaim general strike on March 11th
General strike. After presenting a positive report of the national strike in local public transport of January 26th and of independent unions’ mobilization against Fiat’s Mirafiori and Pomigliano...
11 February 2011
Netherlands: no restructuring for DHL in 2011
The agreement reached on February 9th by the DHL transport and logistics group and the trade unions marks the end of restructurings. DHL’s 3,000 Dutch employees have job security for one year...
10 February 2011
Austria: transferring civil servants from the post and Telekom Austria to the police is harder than expected
The idea launched in September 2009 by the Austrian government was attractive. Rather than keeping on paying civil servants doing nothing at the post and telecoms, why not transfer them to the...
10 February 2011
Italy: method for mandatory assessment of the risk of work-related stress
The “remedial” decree of 2009 on Testo Unico 81/2008 on health and safety at work (see our dispatch No. 090786) conditioned the enforcement of employers’ mandatory assessment of risks of...
10 February 2011
Germany: GDL train drivers union’s decision to launch strikes as of February 16th revives debate on “tariff unity”
Existential conflict for the GDL. For the GDL train drivers’ union (34,000 members), which obtained the right to sign a special collective agreement for train drivers after spectacular strikes in...
10 February 2011
Spain: employers and unions tackle collective bargaining reform
The representatives of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO), UGT and the CEOE employers’ organization set out the dates for the meetings and determined the themes to address: the structure and articulation...
9 February 2011
Germany: IG-Metall union calls for 5% wage increase for 130,000 employees in textile and clothing
Employees’ high expectations. Helga Schwitzer, in charge of collective bargaining within the IG-Metall’s steering committee, justified the wage claim by reminding that employees bore most of the...
8 February 2011
Germany: Volkswagen staff get 3.2% pay rise
Compromise. Pointing to the German carmaker’s good results in 2010, the IG-Metall’s collective bargaining committee announced, on December 6th, that it intended to claim for a 6% wage increase...
8 February 2011
Netherlands: tough negotiations at NXP, Philips subsidiary
Negotiations for the future collective agreement at NXP should be difficult. This metallurgic company created in 2006 to outsource Philips’ production of semiconductors is owned by American...
8 February 2011
Portugal: rotating and partial strikes all week against austerity
Transport affected. The Monday, February 7-Friday, February 11 is going to be a week characterized by partial strikes in transportation and at the Portuguese post. The first to enter the contest...
7 February 2011
Belgium: FGTB and CGSBL reject cross-industry agreement 2011-2012
Refusal. After consulting its members, the FGTB refused to sign the draft cross-industry agreement 2011-2012 the social partners concluded in mid-January (see our dispatch No. 110040). On...
7 February 2011
Italy: social partners in “logistics, transportation and goods delivering” industry renew CCN with a unitary agreement
On the night of January 26th, Aite, Aiti, Ansep-Unitam, Assoespressi, Assologistica, Federspedi, Fedit, Fisi, Federlavoro, Legacoop servizi, Produzione e servizi di lavoro-AGCI, Anita, CNA-Fita...
3 February 2011
Romania: fierce negotiations on the new Labor Code
Lingering negotiations. On Wednesday, February 2nd, a new meeting took place between union representatives, Labor Minister Ioan Botis and Premier Emil Boc but it didn’t achieve the negotiations...
3 February 2011
Morocco: youth social exclusion is destabilizing Morocco as much as other North African countries
High youth unemployment and precarious employment make a cocktail for social uneasiness. In 2008, the unemployment rate for the 20-29 age group was 30% in Tunisia, 21.5% in Algeria and 17.6% in...
3 February 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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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
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026