Labour relations

Andrea Nahles the Minister for Employment invited the social partners to a meeting on November 20 where both agreed on setting up a “Partnership for skilled workers”, which is a process that will...

21 November 2014

Italy: Uil inaugurates its XVI congress with a call for a general strike

On the eve of its XVI congress that closes today the Uil called for a general strike, in conjunction with the CGIL who had already done the same, for December 12. This strike action marks a shift...

21 November 2014

Great Britain: the campaign for fair wages in the U.S. fast-food industry is crossing the Atlantic

US fast-food workers campaigning to end ‘poverty wages’ have begun to help organise their fellow workers in Britain by giving lessons to help transfer skills, strategies and tactics. Since late...

20 November 2014

Great Britain: Ineos signs an agreement with Unite allowing the union to recruit new members at the Grangemouth site

Following last year’s long and bitter dispute at Grangemouth between the Unite union and the petrochemical company, Ineos, some rapprochement has now taken place. An agreement has been reached...

19 November 2014

Hungary: a bill banning Sunday shopping

Contrary to current trends, closing shops on Sundays is a proposal that has been put forward to parliament by the KDNP (Christian Democrat party), an ally of the governing party Fidesz. Even...

19 November 2014

Spain: the PSA Peugeot Citroën factory at Vigo with support from only one union reaches an agreement in principle that provides for wage reductions

Management and unions have negotiated a competitiveness plan for the PSA Peugeot Citroën factory at Vigo, Galicia. The plan allows for a 5% cut in basic pay and the reduction or even elimination...

18 November 2014

Italy: the young new leader of Fim, Cisl’s metals union federation prioritizes reaching out to the young and the ‘unseen’

At 44 years of age Marco Bentivogli was, on November 13, voted in by the Fim-Cisl General Council as the youngest ever metals union leader in Italian history. Via his project “Sindacato 2.0...

17 November 2014

AEON: Japan’s largest retailer signs a global framework agreement with the UNI Global Union

This global framework agreement signed on November 10 marks the third with Japanese businesses, the first two being in the service sector. However this third agreement is signed with Japan’s...

17 November 2014

Brazil : study reveals reasons for high labor turnover rate Brazil : study reveals reasons for high labor turnover rate

The significant rate of labor turnover in Brazil is caused by several factors, such as short-term contracts, seasonality of raw material, and economic cycles and employers' free reign to dismiss...

13 November 2014

United States: the United Automobile Workers is to represent workers at Volkswagen Chattanooga, but will most likely not be the only one

The UAW, the United Automobile Workers, will set up shop in the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the south of the United States, following the company’s establishment of a...

12 November 2014

Great Britain: deceptively positive employment growth?

Only one in forty new British jobs created since the recession is on a full-time contract: a shocking piece of data reported on November 12 by the TUC trade union confederation. This comes face to...

12 November 2014

Germany: management at IG Metall demands a wage rise of up to 5.5% over 12 months

Despite a backdrop of slowing growth in the German economy management at Germany’s biggest union IG Metall announced on Tuesday November 11 in Frankfurt that it will seek a wage rise of up to 5.5%...

11 November 2014

Italy: Eni has signed a memorandum of understanding on the ‘green conversion’ of its refinery in Sicily

Eni has signed an agreement with unions and both national and local authorities for the refinery’s ‘green conversion’ and a relaunch of the Gela area (Sicily). The unions are well satisfied...

11 November 2014

Italy: the IREN group, a services company working with local authorities, has reached an agreement on the ‘intergenerational pact’

The IREN group, the fourth largest services company (4,5000 employees) providing services to the Italian local authorities has reached an agreement on the ‘intergenerational pact’. This pact will...

10 November 2014

Transdev: the EWC brings an action to suspend the group’s decision over one of its’ French subsidiaries

On November 7 the Nanterre district court heard a submission for an emergency interim ruling sought after by the Transdev EWC against management of the transport group for non-respect of the right...

10 November 2014

Acciona, Dragados and Sacyr: three international framework agreements signed in Spain’s construction industry

On October 29 the Building and Wood Worker's International Federation (BWI) signed new International Framework Agreements with the management of three Spanish international construction companies...

10 November 2014

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