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Spain: souring relations between employers’ bodies and unions over the national framework agreement negotiations on salaries and collective bargaining
Since the end of 2016, discussions between the social partners on a framework for salary recommendations, which should have come into force on 01 January 2017, and which should allow businesses to...
28 February 2017
Italy: insurance sector national collective agreement renewed
On 22 February and more than three years after the previous collective agreement reached its term, social partners in the insurance sector came to a draft agreement for renewing the national...
28 February 2017
United Kingdom: Uber and Deliveroo in plea for greater protection of freelance workers
When questioned by a UK parliamentary commission over how the so-called gig economy’s boom has affected the country’s social protection system, bosses at the mobile application Uber and the food...
24 February 2017
Solvay: global agreement signed on social protection floor for all employees
On the evening of 22 February, Belgian chemicals company Solvay signed an agreement with its global forum for social dialogue that puts in place a social protection floor, dubbed Solvay Cares, for...
23 February 2017
News update as of 22 February 2017
On the menu : PSA next to reassure employees and government authorities over potential Opel-Vauxhall takeover, Belgium/ pre-agreement reached on redundancy plan at Caterpillar in Gosselies, but...
20 February 2017
Italy: renewal of collective agreement in textile and fashion sector
Following 10 months of negotiations and a 16-hour strike, social partners from the textile, clothing and fashion sector managed to reach a draft agreement on the renewal of their collective...
20 February 2017
Germany: Martin Schulz, SPD candidate for chancellor, hopes to “correct” Schröder reforms
While often cited during the French election campaign, reforms to the labour market are also a source of controversy in Germany. In particular, it is the set of reforms introduced as part of...
20 February 2017
Finland: partial failure of industrial union merger does not bode well for 2017 collective agreement negotiations
As detailed in a previous article (see article n°9954), the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) decided unilaterally – with the backing of the country’s government – to scrap the existing...
20 February 2017
United States: trade unions ride Donald Trump’s ‘made in America’ wave
On Thursday 16 February, the president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Dennis Williams announced that the trade union is to launch a new advertising campaign to encourage consumers to buy cars...
20 February 2017
Argentina: banking sector set for renewed disputes
The banking sector has just announced a further 72 hours of strike action to take place on 17 February, 20 February, and 21 February following up on a previous announcement of limited strike...
16 February 2017
Spain: unions present a mobilization schedule
On 14 February during a press conference, the leaders of the CCOO and UGT confederations, Ignacio Fernandez Toxo and Pepe Alvarez respectively, presented a mobilization schedule by way of...
14 February 2017
Denmark: industry agreement marking the end of the economic crisis
On 12 February, Dansk industry ((DI), employers) and Co-industri (a group of 9 unions including Dansk Metall and HK/Privat) signed an agreement that the president of Co-industri called a landmark...
14 February 2017
Turkey: state of emergency upsets trade unions’ rights
Turkey’s state of emergency, put in place in mid-July 2016 in reaction to an attempted coup has left trade unions with serious restrictions on the exercise of their rights. International and...
13 February 2017
Italy: social partners from banking sector subscribe to best practice code on commercial policies and work organisation
On 8 February, the Italian Banking Association (ABI) and the banking sector trade unions signed a historic national agreement. The deal covers commercial policies and work organisation, and in...
9 February 2017
Italy: UniCredit and union agreement on job losses and staff motivation
On 04 February, one of Italy's two major banking groups, UniCredit concluded an agreement with the union organizations to manage some expected 3,900 job losses throughout Italy, as part of the...
9 February 2017
News update as of 8 February 2017
On the menu : social dialogue appears to have restarted in Belgium, Spain's parliament to examine draft legislation establishing a minimum anti-poverty revenue level, Missouri becomes the 28th...
7 February 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