Labour relations

On Wednesday October 15, the three main Belgian trade union organizations announced a series of actions from November 6, in protest over the new rightwing government’s policy program. The three...

16 October 2014

Salini Impregilo: signs an International Framework Agreement

The Italian Building, Construction and Public Works group, Salini Impregilo signed in conjunction with the national construction unions Feneal Uil, Filca Cisl, Fillea CGIL and the international...

15 October 2014

Italy: in the banking sector ‘welfare business’ is taking on more importance during collective negotiations on productivity

Following the economic recession and the public sector budget cuts, the banking sector ‘social bonus’ has become increasingly important. In 2014 more than 80% of the main Italian banking groups...

15 October 2014

EU: The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) strengthens its position on an optional legal framework for company transnational negotiations

In March the ETUC adopted a resolution endorsing an optional legal framework for company transnational negotiations. It hopes that defined legal frameworks will eliminate uncertainties and that...

14 October 2014

Italy: conflict escalates at the ThyssenKrupp plant in Terni

After last week’s negotiations failed over a new industrial plan for the ThyssenKrupp Accial Speciali Terni (AST-TK) site in Umbria, workers have started a week of strike action set to culminate...

14 October 2014

Netherlands: widespread use of wage cuts and demotions by HR departments and company leaders

An annual survey of 700 Dutch company leaders and HR departments covering HR policies, conducted by Berenschot in cooperation with the payroll services provider ADP, shows that employers continue...

13 October 2014

Great Britain: thousands of British workers on the streets to demand higher wages

This week, large numbers of Britain’s public sector workers are set to demonstrate for higher pay. Unprecedented since the Thatcher era, the week of industrial action will culminate on Saturday...

13 October 2014

Great Britain: the GMB union pushes for a decent living wage

The GMB general union, the third biggest union with just over 610,000 members, is campaigning for a £10 per hour ‘living wage’. The campaign was launched at its 2014 congress in June and is now...

10 October 2014

Netherlands: the federation of private sector halts the FNV transformation project

The transformation projects for the largest central Dutch union, the FNV, (c.f. article No. 8637) has stalled. Although it was aiming to merge its main sectoral federations so as to create a...

9 October 2014

Belgium: the future government details the social reforms in its government program

In the evening of Tuesday October 7, the four negotiating political parties reached an agreement to form a government, a little more than four months after the general election. The main thrusts...

8 October 2014

Netherlands: transformation of the FNV trade union confederation is well underway

The country’s strongest trade union the FNV is going through a period of transition, ever since the deep crisis in 2011, which revealed internal weaknesses and which led the organisation to ...

8 October 2014

Prosegur: UNI Global has filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate recent attacks on unionists in both Colombia and Peru

On October 7, a delegation from UNI Global led by General Secretary Philip Jennings filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to denounce human rights violations that may have...

8 October 2014

United States: a trade union for the Mercedes plant in Alabama

After spending time unionizing the Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga in Tennessee the United Auto Workers are now setting their sights on the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama be opening a local...

7 October 2014

Italy: agreement in the metal industry to transpose changes in the reform over short-term contracts

Both union signatories of the national metal industry collective agreement, FIM-Cisl and Uilm-Uil announced that they and the employers bodies Federmeccanica and Assistal had signed an agreement...

6 October 2014

Norway: a new LO trade union for engineers to attract more graduates from higher education

Having been three years in the making, the trade union LO Ingeniør got officially up and running on 8 September. Five separate trade unions belonging to LO (The Norwegian Confederation of Trade...

3 October 2014

Germany: showdown around “One company, one trade union” escalating after a 91% vote by Deutsche Bahn train drivers for an all-out strike

A juncture has been reached in the dispute between the German train drivers' union (GDL) and Deutsche Bahn management. 91% of the 27,000 GDL members employed by DB supported shifting from a...

2 October 2014

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