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Finland: end of the dockers’ strike after two weeks of a conflict illustrating the general decline of social dialog in the country
The agreement, which hasn’t been officially published, was officially accepted by all the parties on Friday, march 19, thus putting an end to the blockade of harbors which paralyzed part of the...
23 March 2010
Portugal: social discontent in the public sector
Social movement. Several strikes or partial walkouts will punctuate the end of March in Portuguese public firms. Urban transportation (Lisbon) and rail transport gave the go of a late march...
23 March 2010
Italy: rubber and plastic social partners renew national collective agreement via unitary agreement
In spite of three separate platforms, the Filcem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil unions and the Federazione Gomma Plastica and Associazione Italiana Ricostruzione Pneumatici (AIRP) employers’...
22 March 2010
Austria: new minimum integration allowance stirs up debate on increasing minimum wage to 1,300 euros
Minimum wage with a door to employment. After months of uncertainty regarding the conditions for its application, the flagship reform of the SPÖ (social democrats), the party of the Austrian...
22 March 2010
Slovenia: details of the wage agreement in the metal and electronic sectors
Since employers’ representatives – the Association of Slovenian Employers, ZDS and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, GSZ – refused to discuss a substantial increase of sectoral minimum wage...
19 March 2010
Germany: rail unions demand a 6% increase, a pact on job security and sectoral minimum wage
Real increase and demographic ageing. Transnet and GDBA (more focused on employees who kept their civil servant status), who have been handling collective bargaining together since 2005...
18 March 2010
Denmark: recent collective agreements strengthen the Danish model
The economic crisis, the decline in union membership and the development of social dumping were the key three factors which pressured unions into agreeing on a “balanced compromise.” Thus...
18 March 2010
Great Britain: the conflict between British Airways and Unite could spread to the US
A conflict without borders. British Airways passengers could endure disruptions on both sides of the Atlantic, after the leader of the powerful American union, Teamsters, James P. Hoffa, confirmed...
17 March 2010
Romania: construction unions and employers bargain for their next social agreement, providing a rare example of social partnership in the country
Negotiations are at full steam between Romanian construction unions and employers to set the bases for the next social agreement governing the SADEC in 2010-13. System of Sectoral Self-regulation...
17 March 2010
Denmark: agreement between SAS and cabin crew to help the company implement its saving program
The Scandinavian airline launched, in January 2009, a savings program to face the decline of the air market and obtained substantial wage concessions from unions (see our dispatch No. 090077)...
16 March 2010
Italy: CGIL announces 1 million participants to its March 12 general strike
Noting a four-hour strike in the private sector and an eight-hour strike in the public sector, on Friday, March 12, “exceeded its expectations,” the CGIL announced that one million people took...
15 March 2010
Belgium: productivity bonuses taking hold in businesses
Heterogeneous award of the bonuses. To motivate their collaborators, businesses increasingly appeal to the system of “non-recurring productivity-based incentives” – the official name given to the...
15 March 2010
Netherlands: extension of short-time working in exchange for wage moderation
On March 11, Piet Hein Donner, Minister for Social Affairs and Labor, met with the social partners to propose the following agreement: extending short-time working (Deeltijd WV-v, see our dispatch...
15 March 2010
Italy: social partners sign joint opinion on arbitration following reactions to the decree-law reforming labor disputes
On march 11th, at the Ministry of Labor, all the social partners except the CGIL signed a joint opinion on arbitration, easier to appeal to with the decree-law recently passed by the Senate (see...
12 March 2010
Denmark: new CCN in the building sector provides for various means to fight against social dumping
The managing director of the Dansk Byggeri employers’ association, Lars Storr-Hansen, emphasized that the agreement for the renewal of the building sector’s CCN, was signed on Friday, March 5th...
11 March 2010
Italy: 15th national Uil union congress announces a “reformist future”
Between March 2 and march 4, the trade union held, in Rome, its 15th national congress under the watchword: “Uil, a reformist future.” On March 5th, it celebrated its 60th birthday. Over 1,200...
11 March 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