Labour relations

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

Germany: reelected head of Verdi, Frank Bsirske puts digital transformation at the heart of the service union’s activity

Frank Bsirske (63) has headed up the services union Verdi since its inception in 2001 and for the fifth time in a row he has been reelected as its head during the Verdi congress being held in...

23 September 2015

Italy: the CGIL starts ‘cutting red tape’ in order to attract more members

Attracting more members and strengthening unions in the workplace and across the country. Such are the priorities taken up by the 6th CGIL conference, held in Rome on September 17 and 18. One of...

22 September 2015

Germany: six big meat industry companies commit to combatting social dumping

Following a series of scandals over the exploitation of Eastern European workers in German abattoirs, the meat industry’s six biggest companies Tönnies, Vion, Heidemark, Danish Crown, Lohmann and...

22 September 2015

Greece: what lies ahead for the new Alexis Tsipras government

Alexis Tsipras who was overwhelmingly re-elected on Sunday is readying the country for the new aid plan Greece signed with the EUR, the ECB, and the IMF in July. In order to receive a new tranche...

22 September 2015

Great Britain: living wage to be paid by a supermarket chain, marking a first for the sector

The quirky fashion and lifestyle retailer, Oliver Bonas, became the first high street chain to pay the independent living wage at the end of the summer to its 500 staff across its 43 shops and...

21 September 2015

United States: Fiat Chrysler and the UAW union conclude their wage negotiations

This weekend details of the project agreement concluded on 15 September 2015 between the United Automobile workers (UAW) union and one of the ‘big 3’ automakers, Fiat Chrysler, were made public...

21 September 2015

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