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The 'Save our Steel' campaign that UK unions have been running for several months is yielding results in so far as on 07 December the Indian Steel company Tata Steel committed to remaining in the...

8 December 2016

Spain: Basque social partners agree to come to the table in a bid to secure a specific framework for the region’s collective negotiations

Following years of confrontation, Euskadi’s (Basque country) four main union bodies and the region’s employers’ body have come together to jointly draw up a cross-industry agreement that will set...

6 December 2016

Audi looking to replace vehicle production lines at its new sites

More than a hundred years after Henry Ford invented the vehicle production line, Germany’s carmaker Audi is on the brink of revolutionizing its own production processes. Out go the traditional...

5 December 2016

Finland: new decentralised negotiation model hinders push to reach agreements for 2017

Traditionally, the model for negotiations in Finland has been heavily centralised. Trade unions, employers and the government would negotiate a tri-partite central deal to establish minimum wage...

5 December 2016

Spain: government announces 8% minimum wage increase, negotiated with socialist opposition

The agreed rise will bring the country’s minimum wage from €655.20 up to €707.61 per month over a 14-month period, which the government says marks the biggest change for 30 years. The trade unions...

2 December 2016

Germany: collective agreement reached in temporary industry applicable until 2019

On Wednesday 30 November, social partners from the temporary work sector put forward an outline for an agreement that offers wage increases in four phases. The size of the raises varies according...

2 December 2016

Spain : three questions to Gonzalo Pino, UGT Union Policy secretary

Gonzalo Pino, UGT Policy Unit secretary explained to Planet Labor why the organization is taking the lead over salaries, following years of a more moderate position.

30 November 2016

United States: a future pro-working class yet anti-union President ?

It is a well-known fact that Donald Trump the businessman and the trade unions are not the best of friends. However how will their relationship develop as the President-elect has to implement a...

30 November 2016

Germany: Labor Minister gives details on draft reforms aiming to meet the challenges of the digital transformation including boosting lifelong training and more labor flexibility

During a conference held in Berlin on 29 November, a year and a half after sounding the starting gun to ‘national dialogue on the future of work in the digital age, the Minister for Labor and...

29 November 2016

Great Britain: PM Theresa May wants more transparency in executive pay

On Tuesday 29 November, UK PM Theresa May unveiled proposals for the government’s future corporate governance reforms. In particular the PM intends for measures to put an end to excessive pay and...

29 November 2016

Spain: a hotel leader criticizes working conditions in the hospitality sector

Antonio Catalan, president of the Marriott AC Hotels chain has criticized hotels for using temporary employment and precarious working conditions as their basis for growth. His words echo those of...

29 November 2016

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

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