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The GMB union together with Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA) have launched an initiative to encourage Humberside’s employers and younger workers into apprenticeships. Unions have...

4 February 2016

Italy: a new agreement for the recently formed Finmeccania One Company model

Since 01 January 2016, former 100% Finmeccania subsidiaries Agusta Westland, Alenia Aermacchi, Selex ES, Oto Melara and Wass, have merged into one single company operating with seven divisions...

4 February 2016

Greece: unions call for a new general strike on Thursday to protest against pension reforms

On the anniversary of the radical left’s accession to power in January 2015, anger is growing across all segments of Greece’s society. The draft law on pensions that the government put to the...

3 February 2016

Germany: IG Metall recommends a wage raise of between 4.5% and 5%

Following consultations with its seven regional federations, IG Metall, Germany’s largest trade union in terms of membership numbers, announced on the 02 February that it would enter into the...

2 February 2016

Great Britain: leading unions call for protectionist measures to safeguard jobs

In response to huge jobs losses and the prospect of more to come, a number of leading unions in steel and manufacturing have made calls to protect jobs by urging the government to act upon...

28 January 2016

Unilever: joint declaration in conjunction with the international trade unions UITA and IndustriALL to prevent sexual harassment

Signed on 26 January by the agro-industry union federations, UITA and the industrial federation IndustriALL Global this declaration included commitments to tackle sexual harassment together via...

28 January 2016

Italy: retail store chain Essenlunga concludes an agreement to try out Sunday working

On 22 January, following thirteen months of negotiations, management at Esselunga (22,500 employees and 155 stores) concluded an agreement that intends to trial working on Sundays. The...

27 January 2016

Germany: IG Metall tightens links with Hungary metals union VASAS

Germany’s electronics and metals union IG Metall together with its Hungarian counterpart VASAS announced they were strengthening their already long-term collaboration by opening a common training...

27 January 2016

Italy: Confindustria and the unions transpose the European framework agreement on work related harassment and violence

On 25 January, Italy’s employers’ body Confindustria signed an agreement with the CGIL, Cisl, and the Uil unions that puts in place a framework agreement addressing workplace harassment and...

26 January 2016

Germany: the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB) calls for more flexibility in working time to benefit workers

During the annual press conference on 25 January, and following a more or less positive assessment for 2015, Reiner Hoffmann, DGB president, presented the main thrusts for union action in 2016...

26 January 2016

United States: American IT workers replaced by Indian manpower take Walt Disney to court

Two former IT employees at the Walt Disney Park in Orlando, Florida are taking their former employer to court for having replaced them with young Indian workers residing in the United States...

26 January 2016

Italy: a boom in the use of ‘vouchers’ exclusively destined for paying casual labor

The latest report by the Observatory for unstable employment carried out for the National Social Security Institute (INPS) has revealed a boom in the use of ‘vouchers’, that were originally...

25 January 2016

Great Britain: the CAC delivers a significant ruling on EWCs

On 19 January the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), a labour tribunal with responsibility for EWC issues, delivered its decision in a dispute between the employers’ representatives of the newly...

22 January 2016

Sweden: the union confederation LO fears a weakening in its position following a scandal affecting one of its unions (Kommunal)

“Inacceptable”. Such is the reaction of a large section of the Kommunal (Municipality employees) union’s membership, following revelations in the Aftonbladet daily publication over extravagant...

22 January 2016

News update as of 21 January 2016

On the menu this week: Italy’s main CGIL union launches a project for a “Universal labor rights charter” for all workers, subordinate or otherwise. France and Germany drive a revision to an EU...

21 January 2016

Germany: bolstered by increased membership numbers, the IG Metall union intends “to conquer the world of digital work”

On 20 January 2016, in Frankfurt, during the annual conference of the metals and electro-technical union IG Metall, its new president Jörg Hofman, announced that last year the organization had...

20 January 2016

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