Labour relations

The Global Framework Agreement signed on June 26 by Felaban and Uni Global Union, the international union federation, is one of the few transnational sectoral agreements. In this regional...

17 July 2014

Spain: creation of a big service federation inside CCOO

The union keeps restructuring itself and merged the financial services and trade and hotel industry sectors into a single services federation. This merger is in line with the CCOO’s gathering of...

17 July 2014

Brazil: bill toughens truck drivers’ working conditions

The Parliament is looking at a bill on working conditions (PLC 41) for truck, cargo and passenger drivers. This amendment of the “truck drivers’ act” - also known as the resting act - comes 2...

16 July 2014

Norway: new deal in oil services tends to harmonize pay between all offshore workers

On July 6, Industrienergi (energy workers’ union) and Norsk olje og gas (employers’ organization gathering businesses operating in the oil industry) reached an agreement in the oil services...

16 July 2014

Italy: Fiat renews with the unions that signed its special collective agreement

On July 11, Fiat Spa, CNH Industrial (holding for trucks and buses), and the -Cisl, Fismic, Uilm-Uil, UGL Metalmeccanici and Associazione Quadri e Capi Fiat unions renewed the group’s special...

16 July 2014

United States: in the end, Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant is organized

Less than 6 months after failing to represent all workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant, Tennessee, the United Auto Workers (UAW) have recently gotten the company’s American plant to create a...

15 July 2014

Great Britain: blacklisting dispute now heads to the courts

The long running blacklisting dispute between the construction unions and the main construction companies is now due to head to the courts because after the breakdown of voluntary negotiations the...

15 July 2014

Tunisia: social dialogue is weaker but still alive

The statistics of the social situation in Tunisia for the first 2014 quarter, released by the Ministry of Social Affairs, are gathered by the Directorate General of the Labor and Conciliation...

11 July 2014

PerkinElmer: an EWC was established

The American advanced technology company signed an agreement establishing a European Works Council on May 28. As Emerson’s – another American company –, which we already commented (see article No...

11 July 2014

Inditex: renewal of the global framework agreement for the implementation of international labor standards throughout the Inditex supply chain

On July 8, IndustriALL general secretary Jyrki Raina and Inditex’s chairman and CEO Pablo Isla signed the renewal of their international framework agreement for the implementation of international...

10 July 2014

Great Britain: RMT union launches battle against ISS’ use of biometric fingerprinting with its workers

The long simmering dispute between the RMT transport union and the Danish transnational, ISS, over the introduction of biometric fingerprinting technology has become a pitched battle on the London...

10 July 2014

Italy: Generali renews framework agreement on employment protection in the group

On June 27, Generali Italia Spa and Generali Infrastructures S.c.a.r.l. (GIS), together with the group’s corporate union representation body (RSA), signed an agreement, valid until March 31, 2016...

9 July 2014

France: key elements of the government’s new social roadmap

The 3rd social conference, organized on July 7-8 in Paris, wasn’t as successful as the other two. The fact that several unions were absent gave the event a serious blow. In spite of these...

9 July 2014

Germany: for the first time, IG-Metall and steel employers’ organization sign sectoral collective agreement on appeal to service provision contracts

Removing the possibility of an unlimited strike, the IG-Metall union and the steel employers’ organization (Arbeitgeberverband Stahl e.V) agreed, on the morning of Tuesday, July 8 in...

9 July 2014

Italy: Tenaris Dalmine strikes deal on new flexible system

The agreement signed on June 14 between Tenaris Dalmine Spa and the Unitary Trade Union Representation Body (RSU) of the Dalmine and Sabbio establishments, together with the Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL...

8 July 2014

Great Britain: as the public sector is getting ready for a major strike, the Tories remind that they will toughen the right to strike if elected in 2015

Up to 2 million members of the FBU, GMB, NUT, PCS, Unite and Unison unions in schools, local government, the civil service and the fire service walk out on July 10 over issues of pay rises and...

7 July 2014

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