Labour relations

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demonstrators took to the streets of 130 towns and cities throughout France demanding that the labor law reform bill be withdrawn.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

Italy: the CGIL is to present a citizen’s initiative draft law that ‘reunifies’ labor rights

The CGIL union has established a committee tasked with collecting signatures in support of a citizen’s initiative draft law that completely rewrites Italy’s Labor Code and that sees itself as an...

9 March 2016

Denmark: a marked reduction in the number of conflicts in the private sector

In 2015 the number of strike days in companies belonging to the DA, Denmark’s main employers’ confederation hit its lowest level in twenty five years. According to researchers the drop is as much...

9 March 2016

Great Britain: the Living Wage is making employers blanch

How does one absorb the costs of a mandatory rise in the minimum wage of almost 7.5% to be paid to all workers over the age of 25? This is the question bothering British businesses that remain...

9 March 2016

Germany: social partners in the chemicals sector set up the ‘SO-WIN’ training cycle as a way of getting senior management and WC employee representatives working together on the theme of sustainable development

In mid-February, the IG BCE union together with the BAVC employers’ federation announced the establishment of the “social partner workshop for innovation and sustainable development” (SO.WIN). The...

8 March 2016

Spain: first collective agreement concluded at Lidl

On 04 March 2016, management at supermarket chain Lidl together with the unions CCOO and UGT signed the first company wide collective agreement. In it is the highest minimum wage level for the...

8 March 2016

India: general strike set for 10 March protesting the Modi government’s labor law reform projects

11 central trade unions of India, including Bharatiya Majdoor Sangh (BMS), an affiliate of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have called for a national strike on 10 March protesting the...

7 March 2016

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