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Italy: social partners in cement, lime and plaster unitarily renew their collective agreement
Fillea CGIL, Filca-Cisl, and Feneal Uil (unions) and the Federmaco employers’ organization signed a unitary agreement on February 18 to renew the national collective agreement in cement, lime and...
1 March 2010
Deutsche Telekom: in spite of Verdi’s support, its American counterpart, CWA, is having trouble asserting itself at T Mobile
“We split up the roles” explained Ed Sabol, permanent CWA member. “Ver.di bargains with the management, CWA organizes the ranks.” T Mobile’s stores and call centers in the US are not open to...
1 March 2010
Portugal: creation of the Portuguese Confederation of Construction and Real Estate
Defending the sector. The Confederation of Construction and Real Estate (Confederação da Construção e do Imobiliário, CCI), gathers the sector’s employer organizations and trade associations. It...
26 February 2010
Opel/Vauxhall: six metalworking union leaders and EMF agree on claims for the group’s restructuring
February 23 by the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF), which gathered union leaders from Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, signed a declaration asking...
25 February 2010
Italy: unions agree to the three-year program on employment of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL-BNP Paribas)
Maintaining benefits. The coordination also said that the elements of understanding of the 2007-09 industrial plan were included as such and that the rules and criteria defining geographical...
25 February 2010
Spain: mild support for the demonstrations against the pension reform
on February 23 by Workers’ Commissions and UGT in the country’s largest cities to protest against the draft pension reform were relatively successful. Unions say that 200,000 people...
24 February 2010
Denmark: manufacturing social partners sign an agreement for the renewal of the CCN
ental leave, new layoff pay, better monitoring of the health of night workers, new advantages for shift workers, and a new equal pay authority; these are the key novelties of the agreement for the...
24 February 2010
Germany: following its pilots’ strike, Lufthansa’s management demands legal intervention to guarantee tariff unity
ays, the strike organized by Lufthansa’s pilots only lasted for 24 hours. Cockpit, the airline pilots’ union, and Lufthansa representatives announced, on the evening of Monday...
23 February 2010
Italy: government, social partners and regions sign agreement on guidelines for training in 2010
ramework agreement on training in 2010 – signed last week between the government, the social partners and the regions – affect the reorientation of training for jobseekers, workers in...
23 February 2010
GDF Suez: European agreement on fundamental health and safety principles
Ad hoc negotiating body. This agreement was negotiated between the management and a special negotiating body composed of 31 representatives from 13 European countries, appointed by the trade union...
23 February 2010
Great Britain: British Airways employees vote for a new strike
on February 22: 80.7% of the 11,700 cabin crew at British Airways decided to strike to protests against the management’s unilateral cost cutting policy. Unite is hoping that this threat is...
23 February 2010
GDF Suez: European agreement on job and skills planning
F Suez, the special negotiating body and the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) signed, on February 23, a European agreement on job and skills planning. This agreement, drawing a...
23 February 2010
Germany: Netto accepts works councils in all its subsidiaries
Agreement guaranteeing the election of WCs. For Ver.di, which has been fighting for years for better working conditions and improved employee representation among German discounting chains, the...
23 February 2010
Great Britain: government proposes banning the deduction of travel expenses from minimum wage to protect low-paid agency workers
ndment to the Minimum Wage Act in order to ensure that employers who pay minimum wage won’t deduct travel or subsistence expenses from this amount – a widespread practice among...
22 February 2010
Germany: Lidl wants minimum wage in retail trade
r in Germany, Lidl, requested, in an open letter published on February 17, 2010 in the German press, that the social partners in retail trade, a sector that employs 2.9 million people, 930,000 of...
19 February 2010
Italy: renewal at the center of the 14th Congress of the Uil’s metalworkers’ federation, Uilm
and “key decisions for the defense and improvement of working conditions,” including proposals on the reform of representativeness by the summer, the renewal of the union organization...
19 February 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