Labour relations

Italy’s electrical sector’s unions have approved forming a single platform to renew the sector’s national collective agreement that affects 60,000 workers. Unions are looking to reunite the sector...

6 October 2015

United States: unions worried about the Trans-Pacific free trade pact

President Obama’s government has just concluded five days of non-stop marathon talks with the other eleven Pacific Rim countries eventually ending in a free trade agreement. Unionists in the...

5 October 2015

Great Britain: the Conservative Party launches its own trade union movement

The Conservative Party is launching a new organisation to represent trade unionists sympathetic to the Tories. It is called the Conservative Workers and Trade Unionists Movement. Robert Halfon MP...

5 October 2015

Spain: interview with Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, General Secretary of The Workers’ Commissions (CCOO)

In an interview with Planet Labor during the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Congress held in Paris last week, the leader of The Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) outlined his expectations...

5 October 2015

Great Britain: government support package for redundant steel workers

After having refused to prop up the British subsidiary of Thai steel company SSI, the UK Government unveiled a package of support to help the 1,700 employees find alternative employment after...

5 October 2015

United States: UAW members reject the Fiat Chrysler wages agreement

It’s a no. With 65% of votes against, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) workers have rejected the wages agreement that representatives of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union had negotiated with the...

1 October 2015

Carrefour: signs an international framework agreement (IFA) on social dialogue and diversity

Carrefour, represented by Georges Plassat, its Chairman and CEO, together with Philip Jennings, General Secretary of UNI GLOBAL Union, and in the presence of Guy Ryder, Director-General of the...

1 October 2015

Germany: interview with Reiner Hoffmann, President of the DGB union confederation

During the 13th ETUC Congress being held in Paris, Planet Labor interviewed Reiner Hoffmann, President of DGB on two issues that are currently capturing Germany’s attention: the refugee situation...

30 September 2015

Denmark: skilled labor shortages are causing controversy

Employers’ bodies and certain trade unions continue to sound alarm bells over a problem on the horizon (2020), namely the lack of skilled labor and they are calling for a variety of reforms to...

30 September 2015

Italy: Poste Italiane signs a framework agreement with unions over reorganizing its postal distribution activity

Following on from the group’s four-year (2015-2019) strategic (partial) privatization plan, a framework agreement catering for the reorganization of its postal services and distribution activities...

30 September 2015

Sweden: trade unions and employers bodies indicate their expectations ahead of the 2016 round of negotiations

2016 is an important year for Sweden when 70% of collective agreements will come up for renegotiation. For several months now the different organizations have been preparing their arguments. What...

29 September 2015

Solvay: a charter to coordinate social dialogue across various levels

On 11 September management at Solvay Group and the Solvay European Works Council signed a ‘Charter on good collaboration practice’, which represents a first foray into coordinating Europe-wide...

29 September 2015

Austria: Metals industry bosses block collective negotiations right from the outset

Austria’s most important collective negotiations of the year are the Metal industry talks and this year they got off to what the unions termed an unprecedented ‘bang’. On Thursday 24th September...

28 September 2015

Great Britain: be it through fear or by voluntary action companies are starting to pay the Living Wage

Starbucks, the famous US coffee chain stole a march on its competitors in announcing on Friday 25 September that it would pay the Government’s target “National Living Wage” (c.f. article No. 9180)...

28 September 2015

United States: marking a first, auto parts workers in a factory in the southern state of Alabama vote to join the UAW

The United Auto Workers union (UAW) has just made its first inroads into Alabama, one of the southern States most opposed to all forms of organized labor.

25 September 2015

Germany: Daimler signs an agreement to strengthen and spread its “Generation Management activities”

On Tuesday 22 September both the HR department and the central works council at the German automaker Daimler signed an “Agreement strengthening generation management” at the company. It contains...

24 September 2015

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