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Spain: unions and employers’ organizations fight about the inflation rate to take into account for wage increases
nion confederations, defined the threshold for wage increases to 2%, while the CEOE employers’ confederation draws the line at 1%. After seven years of consensus on the prices defined in the...
5 February 2009
Italy: the CGIL mobilizes against the separate agreement on the reform of the conventional system
he largest union confederation in Italy unanimously approved a strategy to object to the January 22 separate agreement on the reform of the conventional system (see our dispatch No. 090080) signed...
5 February 2009
Brazil: several metalworkers’ and mining unions accept wage reductions to save jobs
jobs, more and more unions sign agreements with businesses to reduce wages. The phenomenon, coming at a time when the government announced a 12% minimum wage increase, particularly concerns the...
5 February 2009
Netherlands: protest against a collective agreement on measures for Polish agency workers
Planet Labor, February 3, 2009, No. 090114 – www.planetlabor.com
3 February 2009
Great Britain: unions decry British worker discrimination
Union statements. Unions argue that this issue goes beyond standard application of the EU’s free movement of labor accords, which guarantees workers from the European Union member states access to...
2 February 2009
China: government gives priority to employment against the crisis
Help young graduates find a job. The number of graduates has reached a new record with over 6 million graduates in June 2009. But they are increasingly faced with problems in finding a job. In...
2 February 2009
United States: President Obama’s first measures for working conditions and union rights
lated by the Bush administration, American unions’ influence and members have considerably decreased in the last eight years. A few months ago, they put their faith in Barack Obama, and...
2 February 2009
Dexia: EWC given priority in the information-consultation process of the announced restructuring
Job cuts. The recovery plan also comes with a global staffing cut plan, presented on January 31, to the EWC first and then to the group’s national works councils. Thus, the group decided to give...
30 January 2009
HP-EDS: employees still mobilized to try and bring the two EWCs closer
Transnational mobilization. Udo Verzagt, part of EDS’ EWC, reminded the stakes of this mobilization: “We really have the feeling that they only give us workforce reduction figures, coming from the...
30 January 2009
Italy: the separate agreement on the reform of the collective bargaining procedure might lead to a further outbreak of conflicts
“A reform in negotiating procedure has never been supported without prior approval of one of the key social partners”, declared Guglielmo Epifani, CGIL leader, proposing to submit to a referendum...
28 January 2009
Switzerland: precedent-setting shareholder advisory vote on executive pay
ies (Nestle, UBS and Credit Suisse) have voluntarily agreed to stage a so-called “shareholder advisory vote”, in which the shareholders will accept or reject the companies’...
28 January 2009
Sweden: a commission delivers proposals to the government to safeguard the specific role of trade unions with regard to EU requirements
Proposals made by the Swedish commission. The commission first acknowledged that the trade unions had gone too far in the Laval case, as their action was motivated not by Laval’s refusal to adhere...
26 January 2009
Germany: the Bundestag ratifies the law on employees’ capital interest
More tax aids for employees. To improve employees’ access to the companies’ capital, the new law provides for the creation of investment funds to which employers and employees may contribute...
26 January 2009
Germany: the IG BAU, the building union, demands a 6% wage increase
Full order books. The order books of the sector’s companies are full until at least mid-2009. In addition, they should benefit from the €50 billion recovery plan presented in mid-January by the...
26 January 2009
Netherlands: sharp drop in the bonuses of bosses and CEO’s of listed firms
The lot of these bosses is nonetheless enviable, considers this newspaper. The average salary of a company chief has a fixed part of € 1 million with an annual maximum bonus of € 1 million and a...
23 January 2009
Germany: IG Metall stabilizes its members
In 2008, for the first time in 15 years, the IG Metall, the largest union in Germany with 2.3 million members, put a temporary end to the erosion of its strength. According to an assessment...
23 January 2009
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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...
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