Labour relations

On December 17, Juan Rosell the 58 year old Catalan businessman and President of the CEOE since 2010 was reconfirmed as President for a further four year term. He garnered 345 out of the 768...

18 December 2014

Germany: Deutsche Bahn and the GDL union find a basis for negotiations and defuse the social conflict tracking the rail sector

The all out strike for German rail workers set for January 2015 is off. Management at Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the train drivers union (GDL) made the announcement on Wednesday December 17. This was...

18 December 2014

Russia: lower real wages for 2015 are a worrying sign

In Russia, social crisis is waiting in the wings. The currency (RUB, ruble) is collapsing as oil prices plummet and Western sanctions linked to the Ukraine situation take effect. Since the start...

17 December 2014

Germany: Amazon, under pressure from Verdi strike action, falls back on its Polish distribution centers to ensure Christmas packages are delivered on time

Verdi, the German services union, which has since spring 2013 being trying to get Amazon to sign a collective agreement took the decision to hit hard with its biggest strike action at the company...

16 December 2014

Chile: 12,000 go out on strike at Walmart claiming higher wages

On December 11 employees at the retailing giant and owner of the Lider chain of supermarkets went out on a national strike. Employees disagree with management over the method of collective...

16 December 2014

Belgium: the country paralyzed by a general strike

On Monday December 15 the general strike, organized by a united union front protesting the government’s austerity measures, marked the culmination of a wave of strikes that has hit the country...

15 December 2014

Italy: the December 12 general strike considered a ‘total success’, by organizers

CGIL and UIL, the two union confederations that organized the December 12 general strike protesting the Jobs Act and the Stability Law, declared an average participation rate in excess of 60% with...

15 December 2014

Germany: the Verdi union urges Deutsche Post to end its policy of hiring on fixed-term contracts

During national employee assemblies held on December 5 at Deutsche Post premises, Verdi, the services union, strongly criticized the German post office’s employment policy. According to Verdi...

10 December 2014

Denmark: a majority of LO unions are halting direct support for leftwing political parties

The Danish tradition of the Social Democratic party supporting the union and vice versa is close to coming to an end. 13 out of 17 LO unions (the LO is the country’s main union confederation) have...

10 December 2014

Great Britain: all the trade unions have renewed their 10 year political funds

The 1984 Union law requires unions to ballot their members if they want to continue maintaining their political funds (that can be used to provide financial support for political parties) for a...

9 December 2014

Holcim-Lafarge: union bodies set up a global committee to monitor the social consequences of the merger and to push for better standards in the new entity

On April 7 2014, management from the French Lafarge (with 64,000 employees) and the Swiss Holcim (with 90,000) companies announced their intention to merge. This merger would create the world’s...

8 December 2014

Italy: CGIL and UIL unions set general strike for December 12

Friday December 12 is the day when both the CGIL and UIL go out on strike together marking a first after a long period when they pursued separate aims. Their motto “this won’t do” refers to the...

8 December 2014

Belgium: third in a series of rotating strikes against the government in front of a nationwide strike

Joint trade union strike action was organized for December 8 as the third in a series of actions protesting the center-right government’s austerity measures. Strike action in Brussels and in the...

8 December 2014

Great Britain: a shift in gear towards workers at Jaguar Land Rover plant over pay related strike action

Workers at Jaguar Land Rover have won a better pay and pensions deal from their employer after rejecting the initial offer and threatening to ballot for strike action. In early November, 96% of...

8 December 2014

Netherlands: final hurdle cleared as vote for FNV union merger is approved

The largest private sector union FNV Bondgenoten, affiliated to the trade union confederation FNV, voted in favor (with 91% of the votes) of the planned merger into one unified trade union...

8 December 2014

Italy: an agreement by the Ministry of Economic Development on the future for the Thyssenkrupp factory at Terni ends one of the longest strikes in Italy’s union history

After 44 consecutive days of strike action, one of the longest in the history of Italian unionism, and after five months of talks marked by breakdowns and subsequent take-ups (c.f. article No...

5 December 2014

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