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Germany: Federal Labor Court cancels the principle of “tariff unity” in businesses
Several rival agreements can now co-exist. Reviewing its case law, the Federal Labor Court rejected, in its decree (Ref. 10 AS 2/10 and 10 AS 3/10) the principle of “tariff unity,” which used to...
23 June 2010
Great Britain: the conflict between British Airways and Unite keeps dragging on
With no further meetings planned, the Unite union – which represents the cabin crew – is planning to organise a further ballot for strike action which – if producing a ‘yes’ vote - would allow...
23 June 2010
Spain: commentary on the decree-law reforming the labor market
During the last two years, unions and employers have been trying to reach an agreement on the labor market reform. After a decade of impressive economic growth and decline of unemployment levels...
23 June 2010
Romania: union leader quits after failed mobilization against severity plan
Take on responsibility. The leader of the BNS (National Union Bloc), Dumitru Costin, handed in his resignation last week, following unions’ failure to prevent the introduction of severity...
22 June 2010
United States: businesses where work is good do better on Wall Street
Every year, Great Place to Work looks at 350-450 businesses. Thus, last year, they surveyed 81,000 employees to better understand businesses’ culture and the trust employees have in their company...
21 June 2010
Belgium: merger between the CSC’s construction and energy-chemistry federations
The largest federation within the CSC. The 234,000 members of CSC Bâtiment-Industrie, which gathers workers in construction, cement, glass, wood, graphics and paper, and the 50,000 members of CSC...
21 June 2010
United States: Bob King elected UAW President
Bob King, 63, was elected President of the United Auto Workers, the powerful American union, by an overwhelming majority. He reaped 2,115 votes – 98%. His last-minute opponent, Gary Walkowicz...
18 June 2010
Lithuania: Parliament adopts amendments to the Labor Code facilitating overtime and striking
On April 14th, the Prime Minister announced, after months of tripartite negotiations, an agreement allowing layoff without notice (in exchange of double compensation for the employee), fixed-term...
18 June 2010
Italy: metal SMEs renew their national collective agreement with a separate agreement as well
The renewal of the CCN for small and medium-sized metal businesses was concluded between the Fim and Uilm with the Unionmeccanica-Confapi employers’ organization on the night of June 3rd. the two...
17 June 2010
International: global unions adopt a series of principles on temporary work
The principles, presented on June 14th, were adopted by the Council of Global Unions (which coordinates member organizations within Global Unions, which in turn includes the International Trade...
17 June 2010
Great Britain: unions in the public sector are dreaming of coordinated action against the government’s planned budget cuts
This is all the more so now that public expenditure and public services in Britain will experience what are roundly acknowledged to be the biggest cuts in many generations. The cuts result from...
17 June 2010
Spain: the government, politically isolated, adopted the draft labor market reform
No sacred union on the reform. The draft labor market reform is going on its tricky path. After the negotiation failed with the social partners, on June 10th, the government was hoping to rapidly...
16 June 2010
HSBC: global action day against the bank
In Amsterdam, the international branch of the Federation of Netherlands Unions and Allies (FNV Bondgenoten) supported this action day and demonstrated in front of HSBC’s headquarters. To...
16 June 2010
Italy: Fiom-CGIL rejects the agreement on Fiat-Pomigliano d’Arco’s restructuring plan which rams the industrial relations system
“A U-turn in Italian industrial relations.” This is how Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi defined the separate agreement on Fiat’s restructuring plan for the Pomigliano d’Arco factory (Naples)...
15 June 2010
United States: strike at Spirit Airlines
The last strike dates back to January 2006, at World Airways. Some time before, in August 2005, Northwest Airlines mechanics stopped work to protest against a pay cut. This time, the 440 Spirit...
15 June 2010
International: first talks about the creation of a large international industry union federation
Diversified sectors. Gathered in Germany last week, the IMF’s appointed a work group to evaluate the financial and structural conditions of a possible merger with the ICEM and ITGLWF. The...
15 June 2010
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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