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BASF EC: election of a special negotiations’ body to negotiate staff representation in the future European Company
Last June 12, staff representatives from the BASF group elected a special negotiations' body composed of 31 people coming from the group's different national companies. By the end of the year, it...
28 June 2007
Alcan-Alcoa: the European Metalworkers Federation gathered unionists from both groups
Whereas the hostile offer launched by the American aluminum maker Alcoa to its Canadian competitor Alcan ends on July 10, the European Metalworkers Federation (EMF) gathered on June 21 in...
28 June 2007
Porsche: the car manufacturer adopted the status of European Company
During an extraordinary general assembly on June 26, 2007 in Stuttgart, the luxury German car manufacturer Porsche AG's shareholders gave the green light to the transformation of the company into...
27 June 2007
Great Britain: productivity is still lagging behind
British productivity remains well below that of other European countries, according to a study by the center of economic performance, bound to the prestigious London School of Economics. (Ref...
27 June 2007
Netherlands: KLM’s flying personnel is threatening to go on strike
The flying personnel of the airline company KLM-Air France (that is about 8.500 people in the Netherlands) voted on June 22, with a 93% majority, against the plan for the new collective agreement...
27 June 2007
Slovakia: the most important changes proposed to the Labour Code
e-europnews, June 28th, 2007, n° 070570 - www.eeuropnews.com
26 June 2007
Spain: the decrease in wages’ weight in the GDP is causing much gnashing of unions’ teeth
In 10 years, it went from 49 to 46.6% (as opposed to 64% in average in the Euro zone). Despite the official continuation of the wage moderation policy, unions are getting ready to enter a new...
26 June 2007
Austria: companies’ good results and the fall of unemployment made labour costs and wage levels rise again.
According to the Austrian statistics office (Statistik Austria), labour cost in Austria increased faster than expected in the first trimester of 2007, in a context of important unemployment...
25 June 2007
Italy: strong railroaders’ mobilization for the renewal of the collective contract and against a privatization “the Italian way” of railroads
8 railroaders out of 10 took part in the national strike on June 22 in favour of a collective contract enforceable to all of the sector's companies, in order to fight against social dumping, and...
25 June 2007
Spain: banking managers and unions signed a new sectorial agreement.
The Spanish banking association (AEB), the sector's employers' representation body, negotiated with majority unions Comfia-CCOO (49.52%) FES-UGT (31.06%) and FESBIAC-CGT (12.23%), the 21st...
25 June 2007
Great Britain: towards the first strike in eleven years at Royal Mail
After several weeks' negotiations, postal workers announced that they intended to go on a 24-hour strike this week, which is a first at Royal Mail for eleven years. The conflict is about wage...
25 June 2007
Germany: the federal Labour Court confirmed that “solidarity strikes” are legal
In a ruling published on June 19, 2007, the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht - BAG) confirmed that solidarity strikes led in a sector indirectly concerned by collective conventions...
22 June 2007
Germany: train drivers from the Deutsche Bahn could launch a strike at the beginning of July
The beginning of the summer period is about to be stormy in Germany. Indeed, the German train drivers' trade union (GDL) announced on June 19, that it would launch a strike at the beginning of...
20 June 2007
Germany: the large coalition adopted a compromise on the creation of branch minimum wages
After a new summit meeting in the night between June 18 and June 19 in Berlin, the two large parties in power - the social-democrats (SPD) and the Christian Unions (CDU/CSU) - could not agree on...
20 June 2007
Germany: open-end strike started in the building sector in Lower Saxony and Schleswig Holstein
Agreement too high. Arguing the difficulties of the small and medium-size firms in their regions, the two regional associations (members of the ZDB federation) esteem that the federal wage rate...
18 June 2007
Nokia Siemens Network: management agrees to negotiate the creation of a European Works Council (EWC)
e-europnews June 19, 2007, n°070535 – www.eeuropnews.com
18 June 2007
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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