Labour relations

22 million kroner (€2.95 million) is the amount that Cipa, one of three Italian subcontractors working on the expansion of the capital’s metro system, will have to pay in compensation to 3F who...

11 March 2015

Italy: the Fit-Cisl union has received enough public signatures to put its draft law to parliament over new strike regulations for local public transport

Rebalancing the costs of strike action, currently receiving workers’ and travellers’ support, and reducing conflict. Thus are the goals of a ‘peoples’ draft law presented by the Fit-Cisl to the...

9 March 2015

Belgium: Bpost studies the notion of annualized hours for its mail division

Since January 2015, the Belgian postal distribution division has been in discussions with unions over annualized working hours as a way of improving workload management. Weekly hours would remain...

9 March 2015

Sweden: the LO (blue collar) and TCO (white collar, professional, highly qualified) are running neck and neck…

“Vi ökar igen!” “We are still developing” enthused Eva Nordmark –TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees) President, on February 16, when she announced a 3% rise in membership numbers...

9 March 2015

Spain: the CCOO union adopts a code of conduct aimed at protecting itself from further controversy

In response to several unsavory episodes involving CCOO heads, its confederal council has approved an internal code of conduct. The document addresses a number of changes in internal operations...

5 March 2015

Sweden: a new collective agreement for the banks

On March 02 and following four months of negotiations, Finansförbundet (Financial Sector Union of Sweden) and BAO (Employers’ Organization of the Swedish Banking Institutions) signed a new pay and...

5 March 2015

Germany: an ‘employers’ study concludes that trade unions have indeed made a comeback

Since the financial crisis back in 2006, German trade unions have extended both their presence in German companies and their political influence at national level. They are now reconciled with...

4 March 2015

Great Britain: significant agreement over industrial relations at Royal Mail

Barely a year after signing a landmark agreement in February 2014, both the privatized British postal delivery group Royal Mail and the CWU union appear, in Lionel Sampson’s (CWU) words, to have...

4 March 2015

Great Britain: the GMB succeeds in signing more new union recognition agreements

Data shows that unions continue to sign new recognition agreements and gain new representation and bargaining rights for their members. Even if the actual number of signed agreements is lower than...

3 March 2015

Nordea: together with the four Nordic unions, employees from the Polish subsidiary establish a new union in Poland

Union cooperation in Nordea has contributed to a new union for employees of the group’s Polish subsidiary, who had up until now been only lightly unionized. The underlying objective is to...

2 March 2015

United States: Silicon Valley bus drivers unionize

Silicon Valley’s support workers are joining forces. Shuttle bus drivers for Apple, Yahoo, Ebay, Zynga, Genetech, and Amtrak have voted for representation by Teamsters Local 853 with a view to...

2 March 2015

Allianz SE: revision to the employee participation agreement

On July 03, 2014 an agreement revising an earlier one (2006) covering employee participation in the Allianz insurance company was signed during the SE works council meeting. The progress of...

27 February 2015

Switzerland: extended working hours are ‘negotiated’ in response to the soaring Swiss franc

On January 15, 2015 the Swiss central bank lifted its cap on the Swiss Franc leading to a soaring currency. As a result more and more Swiss businesses, for the most part industrial exporters, have...

27 February 2015

France: the Prime Minister presents the main points of reforms to social dialogue in businesses as well as the 2015 Social Agenda.

As announced after the social partners failed to agree on personnel representation bodies, the government is stepping in to “fully assume its responsibilities” and at the end of March/beginning of...

26 February 2015

Great Britain: firms are using a record 1.8 million zero-hours contracts

According to statistics from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) August 2014 saw firms reaching yet another record high in zero-hours contracts – they do not guarantee a minimum number of...

26 February 2015

Greece: Alexis Tsipras’ government’s list of reforms is approved by the Eurozone finance ministers

The Greek Minister for finance,Yanis Varoufakis detailed on six pages the reforms his government intended to implement. The list of reforms in exchange for an extension of financial aid was...

25 February 2015

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