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Great Britain : two British unions are uniting with an American one to try to establish joint negotiations with multinationals
Two of the largest British unions, Amicus and the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) signed an agreement on Wednesday April 18 with their American counterpart - United Steel Workers (USW)...
19 April 2007
Royal BAM : an international framework agreement on workers’ rights signed
The Dutch construction group, the building and wood workers' international (BWWI) and the Dutch unions FNV and CNV signed, on April 11, 2007, an open ended international framework agreement (IFA)...
18 April 2007
Belgium: what the union confederation FGTB is expecting from the future government
The federal management of the FGTB (the General Belgian Labour Federation, with a socialist tendency) presented, on April 17, 2007, within the Federal Parliament, before the eight democratic...
18 April 2007
Czech Republic: Skoda’s unions are calling on a strike to support wage claims
Unions from the Czech car manufacturer Skoda (group VW) called on a day of strike on April 17 in order to back up their wage claims. After over eight negotiation sessions, unions had already...
18 April 2007
General Motors Europe : agreement between the management and the EWC on the new Astra assembly
The European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) announced, last April 17, that the GME management and its European workers' representatives agreed on the future product allocation of the new Opel...
18 April 2007
Delphi: the European WC is adopting a resolution on the fate of the Puerto Real Spanish site
The American car equipment manufacturer Delphi's European works council adopted a declaration, on April 16, 2007, to support Delphi's workers on the Spanish site of Puerto Real, close to Cadix...
18 April 2007
Coca-Cola Enterprise: the European WC denounces the lack of information following the announcement of a restructuring
On February 13, 2007, the main bottling company for the Coca-Cola drinks, Coca-Cola Enterprise (70,000 employees ), announced to the united states a $1.7 billion loss for 2006’s last trimester...
18 April 2007
Russia : The FIOM reviews unionisation in the automotive industry
Social legislation and unionization. The Federation criticizes the labour code in force since 2002 which “contains numerous imperfections and is causing many problems”. It also denounces the...
17 April 2007
Lithuania: employees getting less and less loyal
The Lithuanian employees feel increasingly less tied to their labour place, a recent survey claims. (Ref. 070343)
16 April 2007
Belgium: new joint commissions in the non-commercial sector
In Belgium, the gravity center of social dialogue in the private sector - especially for wage negotiations - is located in the joint commissions (CP) instituted in each branches. Until now...
16 April 2007
Indesit : follow up meeting for the application of the international framework agreement on the workers’ fundamental rights
The home appliances group's management, the delegation for the international federation of metalworkers (IFM), as well as union representatives for workers from Britain (Amicus), Italy (metallurgy...
16 April 2007
Renault: the automotive group is giving an answer to the consultation concerning the green paper on the modernization of labour law
In a document addressed to the European Commission on March 28, 2007, the automobile group Renault is making its contribution to the debate on the future of labour law (see our story n°061175). It...
13 April 2007
CEZ : first European works council agreement signed under the Czech law
The first agreement to establish a European works council under the Czech law system was signed within the Czech energy production and supply company CEZ (25,000 employees.) composed of 23 members...
12 April 2007
Staedtler: signing of an international framework agreement
Subcontracting. All such provisions must also be respected by suppliers and subcontractors. The group undertakes to collaborate only with parties accepting the agreement and applying the...
12 April 2007
RWE Energy: European agreement on management of restructuring operations
Minimize negative consequences. The objective is to accompany employees when restructuring becomes necessary to sustain the competitiveness of the company and to “minimize the possible negative...
10 April 2007
Renault: the group’s committee has been consulted on the commercial subsidiaries ‘ restructuring in Europe
Consulted on the evolution plan for the organization of commercial subsidiaries in Europe, the group's committee adopted, on March 7, 2007, a declaration in which it asked Renault's management to...
10 April 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