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Sodexo: unions pressure the mass catering company to negotiate a global agreement
Aborted talks. Initially planned for June 30th, the opening of talks was postponed, because the French company refused to negotiate “under pressure” from a globalized union movement. Sodexo also...
6 July 2010
Brazil: wage campaign for metalworkers, oil and banking workers
Brazilian unions expressed their intention to unify their claims, as much as possible, for the wage campaign organized this summer to get better increases, at a time when the Central Bank of...
6 July 2010
Alstom/Schneider Electric: interview of Bart Samyn, EMF deputy general secretary, about the European agreement on social guarantees within the framework of the purchase of Areva T&D
ederation (EMF) should sign, today, July 7th, the agreement negotiated with the managements of Alstom and Schneider Electric on social commitments within the framework of their purchase of the...
6 July 2010
Alstom/Schneider Electric: European agreement on social guarantees within the framework of the purchase of Areva T&D
With the closing on June 7th, this European agreement on social guarantees within the framework of the sale of Areva T&D is the end of a story and the beginning of another. For Areva’s staff...
6 July 2010
Italy: CGIL and Fiom stay mobilized under the “Pomigliano effect”
The “summer cocktail” made up of the economic crisis, the government’s maneuver and the separate agreement on the future of Fiat’s Pomigliano d’Arco factory (see our dispatch No. 100480) is...
5 July 2010
EU: report on one year of industrial relations at the height of the economic crisis
In 2009, industrial relations revolved around the economic crisis and its impact on businesses and workers. The study reminds that, while European countries are slowly coming out of the...
5 July 2010
Great Britain: bill to prevent technicalities from stopping industrial action
It seeks to stop employers from having the latitude to use minor issues to halt lawful industrial action through recourse to the courts in the form of being granted an injunction. The Bill seeks...
5 July 2010
Great Britain: unions are not really harvesting the fruit of ten years of “union organising”
The most sophisticated and sustained strategy has been that of ‘union organising’ which has its origins in the renewal strategies developed by unions in Australia and the United States. It began...
1 July 2010
Italy: SMEs social partners in the Vicenza province signed the first protocol on regional bargaining
This is the first agreement of this kind in Italy. Apindustria Vicenza for employers and CGIL, Cisl and Uil for unions signed, on June 11th, a protocol encouraging and supervising local collective...
29 June 2010
Germany: nearly one in ten businesses doesn’t apply mandatory sectoral minimum wage
One in ten businesses cheats. “If we agree on a rule, it has to be applied” declared Ursula von der Leyen when commenting the evaluation presented by the monitoring unit of the German customs...
29 June 2010
Germany: end of the Cockpit/Lufthansa conflict
Review of the group’s collective agreement. Cockpit spokesman Jörg Handwerg told Planet Labor that he was satisfied with the compromise reached after the conciliation procedure launched in early...
28 June 2010
Italy: great turnout for the general strike the CGIL launched against the government’s economic maneuver
“We’re not an uncomplaining country” declared Susanna Camusso, Deputy Secretary-General of the CGIL, during the interminable demonstration in Bologna (100,000+ participants according to the CGIL)...
28 June 2010
Statkraft: European leader in renewable energy establishes a EWC
Owned by the Norwegian State, Statkraft is the biggest renewable energy company in Europe, especially for the production of water power. Based in Oslo, the company employs 3,400 people in 20...
25 June 2010
Austria: GPA-djp union undertakes offensive against the “avoidance of collective agreements and laws” in call centers
According to the GPA-djp, the approximately 250 call centers in Austria employ around 25,000 people and 5,000-6,000 free agents considered as self-employed workers. The number of free agents is...
24 June 2010
France Telecom: global works council for the French telco
Employing 181,000 people throughout the world, 43% of them outside of France and 12% outside European, according to the communiqué released by the group, France Telecom-Orange wanted to create “a...
24 June 2010
United States: UAW concerned with Toyota’s American employees
The auto crisis severely affected unions last year. Today, the powerful UAW only has 355,000 members left, like in the 1940s. At its glory time, in 1979, the UAW had 1.5 million members.
24 June 2010
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Oliver Dietrich (IG Metall): “The advent of AI can be a means of deepening social partnership within companies”
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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...
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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...
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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...
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