Labour relations

After the Spanish daily paper revealed a system of supplementary financial payments made to leaders and delegates in the financial services section of the COMFIA CCOO, the confederation has...

25 February 2015

Brazil: an unprecedented social crisis in the automobile industry

On February 20, almost 5,200 workers at the General Motors Co. factory, in Campos near Sāo Paulo, paralyzed production by downing tools in protest at GM’s proposal to layoff 800 workers. The...

25 February 2015

Germany: pilot agreement signed in the metals sector in Baden-Württemberg covering salaries, vocational training and early retirement

Collective negotiations in the metals sector culminated in a final 16-hour negotiation marathon in Böblingen, Baden- Württemberg ending at five in the morning with a pilot agreement on salaries...

24 February 2015

GEFCO: implementation of a European Works Council

GEFCO, a world standard in industrial and automobile logistics has established a European Works Council from an agreement signed on February 18 and is set to be implemented on March 01, 2015. The...

24 February 2015

United States : WalMart raises its minimum wage

WalMart has made a U turn on its employment policy. The largest private employer in America will increase its minimum hourly wage to $9 in April and even more, $10 by next February. That new rate...

23 February 2015

Great Britain: powerful parliamentary committee continues to make its presence felt in employment matters

The Sports Direct company founder, Mike Ashley, is being called before Members of Parliament (MPs) at the House of Commons over the treatment of employees at the company’s USC retail business and...

20 February 2015

Gamesa: IndustriAll Global Union signs its first global framework agreement with a company in the renewable energy sector

On 18 February, Gamesa, the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, signed a global framework agreement with IndustriALL Global Union, the trade union federation, and Spanish trade unions. The group...

19 February 2015

United States : following the automotive trade union UAW, an anti-union organization has entered the Chattanooga Volkswagen factory

Volkswagen is continuing to spearhead social innovations in the United States by implementing its new "community organization engagement policy". Originally meant to allow recognition of the UAW...

19 February 2015

European trade union representatives mobilize to monitor the Bangladesh Accord

European and International trade unions have organized an employee (garments and retail) representative’s workshop on the Bangladesh Accord on Fire & Building Safety. While the implementation...

18 February 2015

Total: interview with Patrice Le Cloarec, Director of Social Relations, on the global CSR agreement the Group signed with IndustriALL Global Union

Patrice Le Cloarec discusses Total’s negotiated Global CSR agreement, signed on January 22, 2015, including the agreement’s main initiatives and the steps intended for their implementation.

17 February 2015

Great Britain: the GMB continues its strategy of organizing ‘precarious’ workers

Faced with a changing labour force landscape and businesses’ increasing recourse to ‘precarious” employment contracts the GMB General union has correspondingly modified its long-term organisation...

16 February 2015

Belgium: a united union front continues to put pressure on the government

Three employee unions are looking to put pressure on the government by organizing a major assembly for March 11, 2015 in Brussels. Even if the unions, with the exception of the socialist body the...

16 February 2015

Denmark: temporary work increasingly popular in the construction and industrial sectors

A study* by The Economic Council of the Labour Movement (ECLM), (Arbejderbevægelsens Erhvervsråd: AE)** for the National Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees (HK) on developments in the use...

13 February 2015

International: IndustriALL Global Union defines new guidelines for future Global Framework Agreements

“IndustriALL Global Union has raised the standards for global framework agreements (GFAs) to better protect trade union and worker rights at all stages of a multinational company’s operations...

12 February 2015

Romania: the minimum wage to go up twice in 2015

On January 01, 2015 the minimum wage in Romania rose by 17 euros and will rise by a further 17 euros on June 01, 2015. These increases come at a time of favorable economic growth. GDP for 2014 is...

12 February 2015

Germany: the ver.di union commences hostilities as Deutsche Post looks to cut wages via setting up new entities

On February 10, 2015 the United Services Union (ver.di) denounced the current agreement on working time signed with Deutsche Post, which expires at the end of March 2015 (and the general...

12 February 2015

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