Labour relations

On 24 March, following a summit meeting between the metals sector employers’ bodies, Federmeccanica and Assistal, and the sector’s three main union bodies, Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL, and Uilm-Uil, the...

25 March 2016

Great-Britain : Brexit could cost Britain £100 billion and one million jobs (CBI)

Leaving the EU would cause a serious shock to the UK economy that could lead to 950,000 job losses and leave the average household £3,700 worse off by 2020, a report commissioned by the CBI...

21 March 2016

Denmark: tripartite agreement over integrating refugees through work

One in two refugees in work. That’s the government’s goal in an agreement concluded on 17 March between the social partners over integrating refugees via employment. Key to the agreement is the...

18 March 2016

Spain: an agreement with Repsol to ensure respect for the working conditions in sub-contracting companies

Management at the oil group together with the union announced the signing of a cooperation protocol to guarantee respect for suppliers’ employees’ rights who carry out services at the...

17 March 2016

Germany: Minister for Labor, Andrea Nahles, wants to establish “chosen working time” for all, in the medium term

Almost one year after the starting gun was fired in April 2015 for a ‘national dialogue’ over the future of the world of work in the digital age, Andrea Nahles, Federal Minister for Social Affairs...

16 March 2016

United States: Silicon Valley bus drivers unionize in order to reap benefits from the new economy

Belonging to a union as a way to ensure that everyone gains from the new economy. Thus is the message from the Silicon Valley Rising movement, which, as is characteristic of the American...

16 March 2016

Great Britain: trade unions adjust their organization strategies in the face of challenging circumstances

With each under new leadership, three unions are currently undertaking organisational redesign programmes in an effort to re-imagine their role and stave off further decline and by increasing...

16 March 2016

Danone signs a global framework agreement on sustainable employment

On 15 March the giant food-products company together with the sector’s international union federation, the IUF, International Union of Food and Allied workers, announced the signing of a tenth...

15 March 2016

Germany: significant social conflict looms for Volkswagen, already beleaguered by the ‘Dieselgate’ affair

Already caught up in a massive scandal over tampered diesel engines, Germany’s automobile group Volkswagen risks having to deal with considerable social conflict. IG Metall has announced that...

15 March 2016

Spain: UGT’s new leader announces a union that is more transparent and more open to civil society

Josep Maria Alvarez was elected secretary general of the union confederation following a tight vote during the union’s 42nd congress. The Catalan is taking over at a difficult time for the union...

14 March 2016

United States: the IAM machinists union renews its unionization campaign in Boeing’s South Carolina factories

Boeing’s machinists union, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) is renewing attempts to gain a presence in its North Charleston site in South Carolina. The IAM’s campaign halted in...

14 March 2016

Italy: Unicredit signs a first of its kind collective agreement over surplus executive employees

On 08 March Unicredit together with the unions signed an agreement on managing ‘surplus’ executive staff. This is the first of its kind agreement in the sector addressing executive staff...

11 March 2016

Argentina: moderate wage agreement for retailers sets the tone for other sectors

Argentina’s annual salary negotiations have started with the first agreement being concluded without a hitch. On 03 March, the retailers union the country’s largest in terms of membership (1.2...

11 March 2016

France: at least 250,000 in the streets protesting the labor law reform bill

On 09 March 2016, several hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of 130 towns and cities throughout France demanding that the labor law reform bill be withdrawn. The...

10 March 2016

Great Britain: trade unions becoming more politically active and establishing specific political funds

The Society of Radiographers has joined the ranks of those unions with a political fund to allow it engage in political campaigning. Members of the Society voted by 93% (with a 24% turnout of its...

10 March 2016

Germany: work travel distances have greatly increased (DGB Study)

In February, the German Confederation of Trade Unions published a key study on German worker mobility using data supplied by the Federal Statistics Agency, the main result of which is that...

10 March 2016

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