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Great Britain: BT avoids a strike by granting an annual 3% wage increase
Successful negotiations. BT initially offered to increase wages by 2% this year and 3% net year (see our dispatch No. 100422). However, the CWU threatened with a historical strike and got a better...
13 July 2010
Italy: Labor Minister publishes employee “participation code”
On Wednesday, July 7th, Minister for Labor Maurizio Sacconi sent the social partners the first draft of the “profit-sharing code,” an “open” document which will be improved and updated via their...
12 July 2010
Dekra: the German certification company becomes a European company
Involvement with the supervisory board. Within the framework of the transformation into a SE, the company maintains its dual structure as well as an equal supervisory board. For the first term...
9 July 2010
Greece: adoption of the pension act and general strike
Big mobilization. This 24-hour strike paralyzed maritime, rail and air transport throughout the country. Over 80 domestic and international flights were cancelled and 110 were delayed because air...
9 July 2010
Italy: formal internal opposition building up within the CGIL
Analysis. For the founders, the Fiom’s “clear” position on the restructuring of Fiat’s Pomigliano site (see our dispatch No. 100480 on the opposition of the plan providing a drawback on social...
8 July 2010
Portugal: CGTP calls for national day of protest
Day of struggle. The CGTP ruled out full paralysis of the country but wants to “issue a warning against attempts to reform the Labor Code and the possibility of wage cuts,” declared Carvhalo da...
8 July 2010
Germany: social partners agree on a 22-month wage freeze for 50,000 Lufthansa employees
In March, Lufthansa’s key objective was to cut by 10% the unitary costs of wages paid to ground personnel, while Ver.di was mostly banking on guarantees for job security. In the end, on Tuesday...
8 July 2010
Italy: the “Pomigliano effect” against the “Pomigliano model”
“The outcome of the referendum sounded the alarm.” Susanna Camusso, CGIL deputy general secretary, who should replace current general secretary Gugliemo Epifani at the end of his term in...
7 July 2010
Great Britain: government no longer excludes hardening the right to strike
Introducing a participation rate. Considered as one of the strictest in Europe, the right to strike could become even stricter. On June 21st, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) threw a...
7 July 2010
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
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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