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Italy: metal industry social partners reach draft deal on new national collective agreement for the sector
The talks were long deadlocked on the issue of wage raises, but the social partners appear to have resolved the thorny issue, satisfying both the needs of workers and the demands of companies...
28 November 2016
Spain: unions to mobilise in December and protest against the government’s lack of commitment to social dialogue
The head of Spain’s government met with social partners on 24 November, in a meeting which should have marked the reopening of the country’s social agenda. However, the encounter ended in deadlock...
28 November 2016
Argentina: jobs pact until March 2017
During the week of 21 November Argentina’s government announced that the employers’ associations and unions had signed an agreement, the goal of which is to stave off redundancies against a tense...
28 November 2016
Great Britain: a Brexit budget
On 23 November, during the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s first autumn statement, Mr. Hammond announced that the minimum wage for the over twenty-fives would rise by 4.2%. More generally, the...
23 November 2016
RATP signs an agreement to institute a European Works Council
On 22 November, RATP, France’s local transportation group, together with its SNB signed an agreement to put an EWC in place. RATP operates in Europe and across the world, primarily via its...
23 November 2016
Great Britain: PM Theresa May backtracks on putting workers on company boards
On Monday 21 November the British PM surprised by nuancing her campaign promise to put workers on company boards of directors. “While it is important that the voices of workers and consumers...
22 November 2016
SCOR extends its European Charter on professional equality worldwide to the Group’s offices throughout the world (update of an article published on 09 November)
On 07 November, the French re-insurance and financial services company announced it was extending its commitments on professional equality between women and men, initially worked on by the SCOR SE...
22 November 2016
Sweden: an agreement in principle on flexible retirement in the service sector
Both the Unionen (private sector union) and Sveriges Ingenjörer (Swedish engineers) unions welcomed securing an agreement in principle on 11 November with the employers’ organization, Almega, and...
22 November 2016
Germany: Volkswagen plans to cut 23,000 jobs in Germany but hopes to create 9,000 new positions in the areas of e-mobility and digitalisation
On 18 November, after months of tense negotiations, the world’s largest car manufacturer and its general works council signed a ‘pact for the future’ which will kick-start the most comprehensive...
21 November 2016
Bulgaria: campaign launched to improve working conditions for suppliers and subcontractors for multinational companies
On 4 October, after more than six months of planning, Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CITUB) – Bulgaria’s largest trade union – launched a national campaign in partnership with two...
21 November 2016
Italy: national tourism sector collective agreement is signed
On 14 November, following more than three years of negotiations, the employers’ bodies, Federturismo Confindustria and Confindustria Alberghi, together with the trade union bodies, Filcams-Cgil...
16 November 2016
Qatar 2022: union experts to inspect World Cup football project sites
On 15 November the organization responsible for delivering the infrastructure required for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar™, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC), signed a Memorandum...
16 November 2016
United States: services union SEIU ordered to pay a company for damage to its reputation as a result of its unionization campaign
In September, a civil court jury ordered the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to pay $7.8 million to the Professional Janitorial Service of Houston (PJS), ruling the union was too...
15 November 2016
Verallia: agreement to put an EWC in place
On 23 September 2016, Verallia, a world leader in glass packaging and former Saint Gobain subsidiary (sold in 2015), concluded an agreement (subject to French law) that institutes a European Works...
15 November 2016
Germany: the DGB’s 2016 quality of work index shows digitalization is weighing heavily on workers
On Thursday 10 November the Confederation of German Trade Unions (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB) presented its annual ‘Gute Arbeit’ (Good Work) index, which pilloried the problems arising from...
14 November 2016
Spain: UGT and CCOO differ in approach to salary negotiations
The UGT and CCOO, the two trade union bodies, face the employers’ organisations side by side and united in their objective, to create jobs and improve working conditions and salaries. However...
14 November 2016
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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