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Austria : social partners agreed on the 60-hour week
The federal economic chamber (WK,) the Austrian trade union confederation, the federal workers' chamber and the agriculture chamber presented, on Thursday May 3, 2007, an important agreement on...
4 May 2007
Slovakia: new labour code draft approved
Slovak government has unanimously approved draft amendment to the Labour Code. The amendment was drafed by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family and was now passed to the Parliament...
4 May 2007
Belgium: towards a change in employees’ representation thresholds
The federal government launched, during the Ministers council last April 27, an ultimatum to employers and unions : they have to find, by May 31, 2007, a compromise on union representation in...
4 May 2007
Oracle: negotiations on the establishment of a European WC failed
In an open letter to Oracle's management, the expert of the special negotiations body, Hellmut Gohde, took note of the end of negotiations, which started three years ago, indicating that the...
4 May 2007
Great Britain: the Unite trade union is born
The Unite union was born on May 1st from the fusion between Amicus and the TGWU. The new organization, counting 2 million members, represents the first union power in the United Kingdom...
3 May 2007
Denmark: employees from the private sector accepted the collective agreements
The collective agreements negotiated in the past few months by Danish social partners in the private sector were adopted by almost 56% of the employees who took part in the vote. The participation...
3 May 2007
Germany: warning strikes in the metallurgy sector doubled in intensity
On the eve of new wage negotiations qualified of "decisive" by the Bade-Wurtemberg, the German union IG-Metall extended, on May 2, its warning strikes to the entire country. 61,000 metalworkers...
2 May 2007
EU: unions form the Visegrad group adopted a joint declaration on the strengthening of social dialogue
During a conference entitled "social dialogue in central and western Europe: Experience and prospects", organized on April 24, 2007 in Poland, unions from the Višegrad (*) group adopted a joint...
30 April 2007
Alcatel-Lucent: the European WC is asking the EU for a more efficient R&D policy
During a meeting with a group of Eurodeputies on April 24, 2007, members from Alcatel-Lucent's EWC asked for a European industrial policy which would preserve more skilled jobs. (Ref. 070385)
27 April 2007
General Motors: the EMF and the European work’s council are threatening to block negotiations in the entire group as long as the Anvers factory question has not been settled
The future of General Motors' Anvers factory is not yet assured but unions and the car manufacturer's European management are working on it. The plan would be to build 80,000 Chevrolets in 2010...
27 April 2007
Germany: the building union (IG-Bau) wants to become an “participative union” to face the crisis undermining it
On the occasion of an extraordinary congress which took place last Sunday (April 22, 2007,) the IG BAU's 300 delegates voted in favor of an internal reform which is supposed to strengthen original...
27 April 2007
Germany: the Federal Labour Court allowed appealing to strike for social plans’ renegotiations
In the event of a company closure or of a relocation, German law plans the negotiation of a redundancy scheme between the management and the WC. Appeal to strike is then forbidden. For a little...
26 April 2007
Netherlands: the question of post employees’ remuneration is popping up in the debate on the postal market’s liberalization
Yesterday, the Labour MPs of the PVDA (Party for Labour and Progress), member of the coalition ruling, threatened to block the postal market's liberalization, planned for January 1, 2008, if...
26 April 2007
Spain: two CCOO federations merger to create a large industry sector federation
The CCOO's federal council gave the green light, on April 24, to the fusion of two of its large federations, the metallurgy federation (FM-CCOO) and the textile and chemistry industries...
26 April 2007
Belgium: the CSC presented its Memorandum with in preparation for the legislative elections
After listening to the FGTB (see our story n°070352,) the leaders of the eight French and Dutch speaking democratic parties answered to the CSC (christian union) invitation to debate on its...
26 April 2007
General Motors : the union coordination lead by the IMF is asking the management to respect union rights
The International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) brought together its network of union representatives within GM (GM's actions group) on April 18 and 19 in Antwerp, in order to examine the...
25 April 2007
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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: 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
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UK: duty for employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union postponed to 1 January 2027
The news. On 25 September, the British government published its response to a consultation launched on 23 October on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union. The...
1 October 2026