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United States: the UAW and automakers set up a task force to tackle the coronavirus
The United Auto Workers union (UAW), together with US automakers has decided to set up a task force to address the coronavirus, the objective being to implement stronger protection measures for...
17 March 2020
Italy: social partners sign protocol on measures to battle coronavirus in the workplace
Pressed by the government to establish uniform guidelines to guarantee the safety of employees in the workplace, the Cgil, Cisl and Uil unions and the employer organisations Confindustria, Confapi...
16 March 2020
Spain: employer and union organisations come together to demand exceptional measures to quickly ease impact of coronavirus
The CCOO and UGT trade unions, as well as the employer confederations CEOE and Cepyme, have together drawn up a document setting out their joint proposals for dealing with the coronavirus and...
13 March 2020
Argentina: new waves of branch negotiations to take place against ever uncertain backdrop
Sectoral wage negotiations are in full swing in Argentina, against an economic backdrop that is as uncertain as it is tough. These are the first such talks to take place since the centre-left...
13 March 2020
United Kingdom becomes legal battleground over EWC rights amid Brexit
Compared with other national systems that serve as the basis for several EWCs, the UK has provided a wealth of jurisprudence and the reason for this is an almost two-year battle between employers’...
12 March 2020
Germany: Amazon Deutschland affiliates with the HDE, the German Retail Federation, but without applying sector collective agreements
The German Retail Federation, Handelverband Deutschland – HDE, together with the US online retailing giant Amazon have confirmed that in February 2020 Amazon entered the HDE umbrella federation...
11 March 2020
Germany: services union Verdi publishes ethical principles for the use of artificial intelligence
On 3 March, German service sector union Verdi published its “guidelines for employing artificial intelligence”. Presented as a document “for debate” on the topic of AI technology, the text...
9 March 2020
Italy: with some 10,000 banking sector jobs set to be cut, the impact of digitalisation is the subject of debate
Three of Italy’s largest banks – UniCredit, UBI Banca and Banca Popolare di Milano – have in recent weeks announced thousands of job cuts as part of their respective strategic plans. Some 10,000...
6 March 2020
United States: employees of Beneficial bank to join union
California-based bank Beneficial, which was co-founded by billionaire Tom Steyer, a philanthropist who recently dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 US Presidential...
6 March 2020
Mexico: businesses backing staff that take part in 09 March women’s strike
Mexico’s ‘national women’s strike’ that is set for 09 March was launched by the feminist group Brujas del mar via Facebook back in September 2019. The strike action has...
4 March 2020
Italy: fraught negotiations to renew collective agreements in several key sectors
Italy’s engineering and metals sector trade unions are beginning to get impatient, after their collective agreement, which covers some 1.5 million workers, expired on 31 December 2019. The...
2 March 2020
Finland: new round of collective agreements sees removal of provisions of ‘competitiveness pact’ introduced by previous government
After a chaotic start to the year that saw the announcement of new strikes following those in December 2019, which threatened to completely paralyse the country, as well as trade unions calling...
2 March 2020
Italy: telecoms trade unions attack Iliad’s business methods
The source of this spat lies in a survey commissioned by Italy’s fourth largest telecoms operator, and carried out by the I-Com think tank. The report stated, ‘Iliad’s Italian...
27 February 2020
Italy: LVMH owned Italian jeweler Bulgari secures a landmark company agreement for its Valenza site that addresses LGBT rights and sustainable development
In February a landmark company agreement was signed for the production facility in the premium jewellery firm Bulgari that is located in Valenza, Piedmont (Italy’s goldsmith center). The agreement...
26 February 2020
Spain: “We don’t want to go back to the 1980s or 1990s, but to move towards flexibility and adaptation at companies that is negotiated and not imposed on employees in an opaque way,” says CCOO general secretary Unai Sordo
Unai Sordo, general secretary of the Workers' Commissions (CCOO), the largest trade union in Spain, with 977,000 members and 97,000 union delegates across companies, set out what he hopes can be...
24 February 2020
Germany: collective agreements in 2019 marked by rise of ‘options models’ for working time
The Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) at the Hans Böckler trade union foundation, which manages the organisation’s collective agreement database, has recently published its summary...
20 February 2020
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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