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Germany: IG Metall union agrees to last-ditch negotiation push in the metal sector and issues ultimatum
Following a crisis meeting held on 26 January, the leadership of the IG Metall union announced that it would continue negotiations with the employer organisation in Baden-Württemberg, the most...
25 January 2018
Finland brief update: Google is funding a cooperative set up by the journalists union to give journalists freelance status
Mediakunta cooperative, which according to the latest count employs more than 160 freelance journalists, has just received €50,000 from the Google Digital News Initiative, as funding support to...
25 January 2018
Stora Enso: global framework agreement signed
On Friday 19 January, Stora Enso, the Finnish-Swedish company that specialises in renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wood and paper, signed a global framework agreement with three...
22 January 2018
Japan: older workers allowed to accumulate jobs
Job combining or accumulation has been prohibited for a longtime at Japan’s companies and their internal regulations have stated as much. However the Minister for Health Employment and Social...
19 January 2018
France: the automaker PSA becomes the first company to harness new permission to mutually terminate contracts through collective agreement
A majority of unions ( five out of six) at the French car manufacturer signed today (January 19) the agreements to make use of two new measures introduced as part of France’s new labour reform –...
18 January 2018
Spain: social partners prepare to renew the salary framework agreement
Employers and unions are getting set for the upcoming salary framework agreement negotiations due to start on 25 January that will serve as a guide for collective negotiations overall. This...
18 January 2018
Great Britain: an industrial strategy for the automotive sector
Following the first ‘Sector Deal’ for the Construction sector presented in November 2017, and the second, for the Life Sciences sector presented the following month in December 2017, on 10 January...
11 January 2018
Germany: more and more younger parents are opting for the ‘parental plus salary’
According to a report by the Families Ministry that the government adopted on 10 January 2018, the ‘parental plus salary’ provision (Elterngeld plus), which came into force on 01 July 2015, has...
11 January 2018
United States: New York association Fast Food Justice defending fast food sector employees
New York’s fast food workers have not managed to unionize. Introducing a trade union into a company is too long and complex a process. Until now, the sector’s major food chains including Mac...
11 January 2018
Switzerland: FAIRLOG, a new trade union platform in transport and logistics
During December 2017, the SEV, syndicom and Unia unions, all of which are wholly or partly involved with the transport and logistics sectors, established the FAIRLOG alliance as a way of better...
10 January 2018
ENGIE: signature of a new European agreement on professional equality between women and men
On 21 December 2017, ENGIE and the European Trade Union Federations IndustriAll Europe, EPSU and EFBWW signed a new European agreement extending that of June 2012 on professional equality between...
22 December 2017
Spain: Minimum wage to rise 4% on 01 January 2018
Spain’s government and social partners have agreed on a gradual rise in the inter-professional minimum monthly salary, which will rise from €707 over 14 months in 2017 to €736 over 14 months in...
21 December 2017
Sweden: an agreement to better integrate migrants into the labor market
Trade unions and employers’ bodies finally secured an agreement in principle that will enable both the significant numbers of new entrants into the country (In 2015 Sweden welcomed almost 500,000...
19 December 2017
Germany: Opel, the Works Council, and IG Metall have signed a cost cutting agreement that avoids layoffs
On 15 December there was a sigh of relief as management at Opel, PSA’s recent summer purchase, secured a social agreement with representatives from the central works council committee, the Bochum...
18 December 2017
Ryanair: Irish airline ready to recognise pilot unions, amid rising pressure
Announced on 15 December, Ryanair’s surprising decision to U-turn and offer recognition of pilot unions is a reaction to an unprecedented social front of pilots from across Europe, who threatened...
18 December 2017
Vinci: agreement signed over workers’ rights in Qatar
This agreement is the first of its kind On 21 November Vinci and the Qatari company Qatari Diar VINCI Construction (QDVC), signed an agreement with the global federation, the Building and Wood...
21 November 2017
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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