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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
Germany: IG BCE chemistry union demands a higher wage increase than that secured for metalworkers
Very differentiated situation. This is the third large collective bargaining round this year, after metalworking and electrical engineering (see our dispatch No. 100156) and the civil service (see...
11 March 2010
Areva, Alstom/Schneider Electric: European negotiation on social guarantees in the framework of the sale of Areva T&D
Social guarantees for T&D employees. The European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) received a unanimous mandate from its members present in the three companies affected by the operation. Thus...
11 March 2010
Germany: union competition in the temporary sector leads to a high pay raise for employees
Union race. In fact, the BZA employers’ organization announced, on January 26, 2010, that it signed a collective agreement with the DGB for the approximately 200,000 employees of the BZA’s member...
10 March 2010
Poland: union and employers’ organizations are “renewing” their representativeness
Proven representativeness. Initially, the founding text for union representativeness – Act of July 6, 2001 regarding the tripartite committee and regional social dialog committees – recognized as...
10 March 2010
Great Britain: Royal Mail unions and management sign an agreement on the company’s modernization
Voluntary leaves. After weeks of conflict, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), stepped in, in November, to act as a mediator between Royal Mail and the CWU (see our dispatch...
9 March 2010
Italy: electricity social partners renew national collective agreement with a unitary agreement
“This is a major outcome, achieved thanks to the resoluteness of union organizations which, during these months of difficult negotiations with employers’ organizations and businesses in the...
9 March 2010
Sweden: threatened with union boycott, Accor Ticket Rikskuponger AB’s subsidiary is forced to negotiate a collective agreement
Effective boycott call. In the fall of 2009, the LO union confederation found out that 25 of its members weren’t covered by a collective agreement in the company where they worked, Ticket...
5 March 2010
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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31 October 2025
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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