Labour relations

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

ASEAN: Thailand’s initiative to establish a common set of standards for labor rights

At a time when the ASEAN group of nations is looking to put an economic area in place by the end of 2015, the Thai government has designed a draft ASEAN agreement on the promotion and protection...

11 February 2015

Germany: unexpected problems in the transport sector over the minimum wage law that was designed to combat social dumping

Designed to combat social dumping and low wage, several provisions in Germany’s new minimum wage law are posing serious administrative problems for businesses and industries where, whether it be...

11 February 2015

China: the minimum wage is rising sharply in Shenzhen

Whilst the current public sector pension reforms are leading to overall salary rises in China’s administrative units, the city of Shenzhen, symbol for the ‘workshop of the world’ is also raising...

11 February 2015

Spain: the social partners to resolve the issue of reinstating the ‘ultraactividad’ (extension of validity of collective agreements beyond their expiry date) during the next inter-professional negotiations

Unions and business leaders are set to resolve an issue over the obligation or not to maintaining the working conditions set out in collective agreements beyond their expiry date and for the...

11 February 2015

Italy: social partners in the wood and furniture union have developed a code of conduct to combat harassment at work

The social partners in the wood and furniture sector have concluded a protocol on a code of conduct to combat sexual and moral harassment at work. This is the first such agreement in Italy at...

10 February 2015

Great Britain: UCATT the construction union tries out a training and skills partnership project with a Scottish company

The UCATT construction union has announced a new training partnership with a Motherwell-based window making company, Walker Profiles, and heralded it as a ‘unique’ partnership, which ensures that...

10 February 2015

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