Labour relations

Management at American Airlines - recently formed after the merger of American Airlines and US Airways signed a 5-year pay agreement with the Allied Pilots Associations (APA), which promotes...

2 February 2015

Great Britain: Unite union announces a significant donation to Labour’s May election campaign

Financing this May’s general election is a challenge for the indebted opposition Labour party. The Unite union has started the donation ball rolling with a promise of £1.5m and perhaps more later...

30 January 2015

Japan: unions are demanding a minimum 2% rise in wages for 2015

Japan’s traditional annual pay negotiations (Shunto) started on January 29. The main union confederation, Rengo has demanded a minimum 2% rise in salaries for 2015. Against a backdrop of 20 years...

30 January 2015

Germany: IG Metall mobilises thousands of employees for initial warning strikes

IG Metall issued the first warning shot in the collective negotiations concerning the metal industry, which comprises 3.7 million employees. Just after midnight, when the social clause prohibiting...

29 January 2015

SCOR: signs a charter on professional equality with the EWC

On January 29, the reinsurance group together with the Common European Companies Committee (SCOR comprises three European Companies – Societas Europeae) signed a charter on professional equality. ...

29 January 2015

Germany: renewed discord within the grand coalition government over the minimum wage

Barely four weeks after Germany’s historic move to introduce a universal national minimum wage of 8.5 euros per hour, the parliamentary Christian-Democrat group, the CDU/CSU, unanimously adopted...

29 January 2015

Great Britain: the GMB and Unite unions intervene to save fracking

Although during the summer British unions had argued for the implementation of a united opposition to the controversial issue of shale gas activities, the country’s largest union Unite, together...

28 January 2015

Turkey: an all out metal workers strike is set to begin on January 29

Birleşik Metal-İş the Turkish metals union federation and affiliated with IndustriALL Global Union has announced strike action for the metals sector for January 29. Strikers will protest the...

28 January 2015

Italy: a majority of Telecom Italia workers have rejected a restructuring agreement for its Caring Services division that was seen as a potential means of remote monitoring

More than half of Telecom Italia’s workers who voted, have rejected an agreement between the company and the trade unions; SLC-CGIL, Fistel-Cisl, UIlcom-UIl, to restructure the Caring Services...

28 January 2015

China: dramatic rise in social movement in 2014

According to data from the Hong Kong based NGO, China Labour bulletin, there were 569 incidents of social protest in the fourth quarter of 2014; more than three times as many as the same period in...

26 January 2015

Ikea: union recognition for KOOP-IS within the Ikea franchise in Turkey thanks to international trade union action

Turkish Ministry of Labour has recognised the trade union KOOP-IS within Mapa, the Ikea franchise in Turkey, allowing it to negotiate and sign collective agreements. The union recognition is the...

23 January 2015

Total: Global CSR agreement signed with IndustriALL Global Union

With already three European agreements under its belt, the oil giant Total signed its first global agreement with the global union federation on 22 January in Davos (Switzerland). This is a...

22 January 2015

Famar: establishment of a European Works Council

On the 2nd of October 2014, the Greek company Famar established a European Works Council (EWC) subject to Luxembourg legislation. The company has more than 3000 employees in 5 European countries...

22 January 2015

Great Britain : boosting skills in the automobile industry

At a time where the British automobile industry in booming, mainly supported by international investments, the government and the manufacturers have announced they will spend 30 million Pounds on...

22 January 2015

Great Britain: are salaries really too low?

Whilst strike action demanding higher wages has become more frequent over the past few months all political bodies including the Prime Minister David Cameron are now calling for businesses to...

20 January 2015

Italy: experts examine the new ‘indefinite employment contracts with rising levels of social protection’

The first decree from the Jobs Act that was approved in December 2014 (c.f. article No. 8763) will replace most cases of employee re-instatement due to unfair dismissal (Article 18 of the Workers...

20 January 2015

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