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Brazil: subcontracting employees in Sao Paulo get a 6.53% wage increase
On Monday, September 28, most of the 60,000 metalworkers in Sao Paulo, on strike for ten days, obtained a 6.53% wage increase, i.e. a real 2% increase after removing inflation, and a bonus...
1 October 2009
Sweden: employers and union confederations reveal their goals before the renewal of many collective agreements in 2010
Unions don’t want employees to “pay” anymore. The current context isn’t very prone to unions. Since the economic crisis began, they already had to make numerous sacrifices, like Scania’s employees...
30 September 2009
Germany: IG-Metall says the crisis and environmental turn compel to rethink metalworkers’ working time
Massive and durable decline in employment load. “We have to find new working time schemes allowing a) to answer individual flexibility needs and b) to take account of workers’ wage situation” the...
29 September 2009
Unicredit: global union alliance within the group
Improved cooperation. Last week, 13 national unions and
the members of Unicredit’s EWC launched a global union alliance. In a
communiqué, UNI Finance said that the rapid integration of European...
29 September 2009
Germany: for the first time, Volkswagen’s collective agreement includes a variable wage component based on performance
Towards more flexible wages. Disappointed that the group’s management refused claims accepted by Audi and Porsche, the IG-Metall threatened, last week, with launching warning strikes (see our...
29 September 2009
Sweden: end of State pharmaceutical monopoly and first controversial collective agreement
Two agreements to regulate this “new” sector. The entire drugstore network, which used to be controlled by Apoteket AB (State owned), was dismantled on July 1, 2009. The State sold 150 pharmacies...
29 September 2009
Germany: industrial cleaning employers’ federation blocks the renewal of sectoral minimum wage
The minimum wage agreement negotiated in 2008 by the social partners in industrial cleaning will expire on September 30, 2009. Yet, the sector's employers completely reject unions' claim - a...
28 September 2009
Chile: collective bargaining reform postponed to 2010
Employment and economic recovery override labor law reform. After disagreements within the government coalition (composed of four parties), Chilean President Michelle Bachelet decided to suspend...
28 September 2009
Italy: Filcem-CGIL launches collective bargaining for over 500,000 employers in four sectors
Waiting for a “universal collective bargaining system.” After presenting a separate platform in electricity (see our dispatch No. 090705), the Filcem-CGIL is now presenting four new claim...
28 September 2009
Germany: Federal Labor Court extends the right to strike to “flashmobs”
Flash mob to block a supermarket. The judgment rendered by the Federal Labor Court came from charges pressed by the Regional Federation of Retail Trade of Berlin-Brandenburg (case 1 AZR 972/08)...
25 September 2009
Sweden: two collective agreements in technology and design give priority to local wage negotiations
Unionen gives individual
wage negotiations up.
The sector’s employers’ organization, Almega STD, represents around 740 businesses
in the construction and manufacturing sectors, i.e. 2/3 of...
24 September 2009
Germany: IG-Metall threatens with warning strikes at Volkswagen if collective bargaining fails again
“In the middle of a crisis, Volkswagen is gaining market shares in Germany and western Europe. This is due to the amazing development of our products and to the equally amazing effort of...
24 September 2009
Saint-Gobain: new amendment strengthening the EWC’s information and consultation rights
Effective and practical social dialog. Amendment No. 5 of May 2008 (see our dispatch No. 080713) included the commitment to negotiate, as soon as the second 2008 quarter, the practical modalities...
23 September 2009
Opel: European trade unions mobilized against the shutdown of the Antwerp site
Number fight.
On September 23, whereas the EMF was expecting 3,000-5,000 workers from
throughout Europe in Antwerp, out of solidarity for the site’s workers, Fritz
Henderson, Opel’s CEO, told...
23 September 2009
Italy: food social partners sign a unitary collective agreement
agreement for the food sector is the first to be signed by all trade unions since the separate agreement on the reform of the conventional system. This recovered unity was seen as a strong signal...
23 September 2009
International: international unions working so that the next G20 meeting focuses on employment
ed, G20 meetings have been increasingly important over the years. The summit to be held on September 24-25 will be the occasion to take the pulse of the global economic situation and the degree of...
22 September 2009
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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