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Argentina: annual salary agreements for the commerce, oil and metallurgy sectors
With inflation rampant, social partners from Argentina’s key economic sectors including commerce, oil, and metallurgy, are reaching a series of annual salary agreements. Salary revaluations have...
5 June 2019
United States: tech employees are stirring themselves
Until now IT programmers, designers, and all different types of software editors have been quite dismissive of collective action. Being well paid they don’t really see how collective agreements...
28 May 2019
Norway: joint union-business work project to contribute to national reflection on AI and ethical digitalization at work
Negotia, the largest member of YS, Norway’s third biggest union confederation, has jointly launched a shared reflection with Telenor, the country’s largest telecommunications company, on AI and...
27 May 2019
Argentina: Assessment of the Macri government’s social policy
Six general strikes in under four years. The call by the central CGT union (The General Confederation of Labor) for strike action on Wednesday 29 May marks the sixth strike since President...
27 May 2019
Switzerland: is the nationwide women’s strike set for 14 June actually within the law?
At the end of March 2019 a multitude of women’s’ networks launched a call to strike action: ‘Frauen Streik’ setting the symbolic date of 14 June as the day for the strike. The movement comprising...
23 May 2019
Italy: major parties adopt anti-austerity stance ahead of European elections
Despite significant divergence in their respective views on Europe, the main parties in Italy appear to agree on one thing: enough of austerity. In a country that is yet to return to its GDP...
21 May 2019
France: debate over the CGT’s international strategy during its 52nd Congress questions the ‘hyper-institutional’ approach of both the ITUC and ETUC and takes a first step towards the WFTU
The WFTU has had a chequered past. Established in 1945, it was primarily made up of unions affiliated with or sympathetic to communist parties. In 1995 the CGT took the decision to exit the...
16 May 2019
Germany: CJEU ruling on mandatory working time records puts government under pressure to reform domestic legislation
The ruling handed down on 14 May 2019 by the CJEU on the requirement to record daily working times (c.f. article No. 11127) has sparked a backlash in Germany for which there are several reasons...
16 May 2019
France: Main French EU election list’s social platforms
Following on from out focus reports on Germany (c.f. article No. 11105), Poland (c.f. article No. 11199), and Sweden (c.f. article No. 11128), we continue our tour around pre-election Europe with...
16 May 2019
Sweden: political parties social platforms in run up to European elections
Political life in Sweden is shaped by the aftermath of its 2018 legislative elections, which, following several months of deadlock and a hung parliament, concluded in a second minority government...
15 May 2019
Unilever: joint commitment signed with IndustriALL Global Union and the IUF to guarantee rights of temporary workers and promote sustainable employment
IndustriALL Global Union, the IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations), and Unilever have signed an agreement to limit...
13 May 2019
Germany: ThyssenKrupp pledges to avoid economic layoffs as far as possible, following collapse of planned merger with Tata
After a plan to merge its steel business with that of Indian group Tata Steel collapsed, German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp announced on 10 May that some 6,000 jobs would be cut by 2022...
13 May 2019
Spain: redundancy plan agreed at Caixabank, against a backdrop of union disagreement
After four months of negotiations between the majority of trade union representation at Caixabank and the bank’s leadership over a redundancy plan (Expediente de Regulación de Empleo, ERE), an...
13 May 2019
Amazon: a global trade union network being set up in an effort to shift practices by the online retailing giant
Invited by Germany’s Ver.di union (United Services Trade Union), on 29 and 30 April trade unions from the services and retail sectors across 15 different countries, along with representatives from...
9 May 2019
Poland: national politics dominating European election manifestos
Following our initial overview of the German political parties’ European election manifestos (c.f. article No. 11105) we continue our European review with this focus on Poland. Notable here is the...
9 May 2019
Germany: chemical and metallurgy employers’ bodies disagree over ‘tax bonus’ for companies that apply collective agreements
How can the erosion of collective agreements and co-determination be effectively stemmed? This question has been more than niggling the political and trade union worlds for a decade. In 2015 and...
6 May 2019
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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