Labour relations

With the closure of 11,400 banking units across the country, the strike activity that has been shaking the banking sector for the past nine days shows no signs of diminishing. The National...

14 October 2015

Italy: Confindustria halts negotiations with unions over reforming the collective bargaining model

After ‘Article 18’, are national collective agreements going to be put on the block? Last week the leader of the employers’ confederation Confindustria announced he was pulling out of talks with...

13 October 2015

Germany: the Federal Constitutional Court rejects a motion brought by three corporatist unions against the ‘single union law’

For the three corporatist unions Vereingung Cockpit (aircraft pilots), Marburger Bund (doctors), and DJV (journalists) who made the constitutional challenge to the Federal Constitutional Court...

13 October 2015

Carrefour: the global agreement on promoting social dialogue, fundamental rights, and diversity aims to establish “a mindset of respect for humans throughout all countries” and to promote “awareness” about fundamental rights amongst Carrefour’s partners

Mathilde Tabary, Director for Social Development and Diversity and Jean-Luc Delenne, Director for Industrial Relations each reply to questions by Planet Labor on the agreement signed by Carrefour...

12 October 2015

Great Britain: Unite union wins health and safety concessions after protracted negotiations at Sellafield

After a eighteenth month dispute involving a variety of forms of industrial action by its 1,200 construction members, the Unite union has won its dispute over health and safety that it has held...

12 October 2015

United States: Fiat Chrysler and the UAW union have concluded a new wage agreement after workers rejected the first one

This time, members of the Union Auto Workers (UAW) union hope that they will have successfully negotiated an agreement with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) management when the new agreement goes...

12 October 2015

Nokia/Alcatel Lucent: unions from both groups are demanding more information on the industrial plan

In July 2015, the European Commission gave the green light to Nokia’s plan to take-over French company Alcatel-Lucent. For the unions there is clearly an industrial strategy underlying the...

7 October 2015

Great Britain: the Community union moves to broaden its membership ranks and become a lifetime union

The Community general union has announced that it will be recruiting freelance and self-employed workers to reflect both the growth of these workers in the economy at large and their growth in the...

7 October 2015

Argentina: on average 60 unions per year have been set up under the Kirchner era

Argentina’s Employment Ministry has published a report in which it says that in the space of 11 years more than 650 unions have been set up. The country’s rate of unionization at 37% is amongst...

7 October 2015

Germany: 2015 – 2017 collective bargaining schedule

Germany’s collective bargaining year is coming to a close. Only the industrial cleaning and steelworks sectors still have to renegotiate wages and collective agreements before the end of the year...

6 October 2015

Italy: unification of the electrical sector is a major goal of the union platform for renewing the sector’s national collective agreement

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

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