Labour relations

On June 17, Unionen (private sector) and Sverigesingenjörer (engineers) signed a collective agreement with a new employers’ association, Tekniktjänstearbetsgivarna (technical service firms). This...

7 July 2014

Sweden: series of agreements in the rail industry to prepare the future and avoid social dumping

The strike lasted for 3 weeks, during which Veolia Transport and SEKO (services and communication union) fought over a certain view of appeal to temporary contracts and the risks of social...

7 July 2014

Spain: unions call for mobilizations to defend the right to strike on July 9

256 union members are currently the subject of legal proceedings for facts that happened within the framework of a general strike. They incur heavy fines or prison sentences. The CCOO and UGT...

7 July 2014

Germany: landmark vote of the Act introducing statutory universal minimum wage

Today, July 3, the Bundestag passed the “Act strengthening the social partners’ autonomy in collective bargaining” (Tarifautonomiestärkungsgesetz), introducing statutory minimum wage amounting to...

3 July 2014

Great Britain: Unite the union demands referendum on the EU

The Unite union has passed a motion calling on the Labour Party to organize a referendum on maintaining the UK in the EU if it won the 2015 election. It’s the first time a major union has been in...

3 July 2014

Italy: construction social partners renew the sector’s national collective agreement

After tough negotiations characterized by a break and a national strike last December, Filca-Cisl, Feneal-Uil and Fillea-CGIL for unions and Ance and Coop for employers reached, on July 1, a deal...

3 July 2014

AXA: the EWC wants to be at the center of social dialogue on digitalization and its impact on employment

The digital revolution is at play in the insurance world, as in many other sectors. With changes that should take place in 2020, the management and group European council of AXA are going to use...

2 July 2014

Great Britain: The Unite union announces an “American-style campaign” to shame trade and hotel groups paying below the living wage

The Unite union at its 3rd policy conference warned supermarkets and hotel groups paying below the ‘living wage’ that they are to be targeted as part of a renewed effort to shame them into paying...

2 July 2014

Germany: Spanish youngsters in Berlin organize to defend their social rights

The Union Action Group (UAG) born in February is a platform to defend Spanish immigrants’ rights and put them in touch with German unions. Appeared in the wake of the Indignant movement and based...

2 July 2014

Germany: 4.5-percent wage increase over 24 months in the banking industry

After a dispute characterized by major warning strikes, the Verdi services union and associations of private and public banks agreed, on Monday, June 30, on a 4.5-percent wage increase divided in...

2 July 2014

Great Britain: soon, Nestlé will pay living wage, higher than minimum wage, to all its employees, including temps

Nestlé, the nutrition company, has promised to pay all its employees at the level of the living wage, including agency workers and workers employed by subcontractors, by 2017. This is a first for...

1 July 2014

United States: businesses’ religious liberty must take precedence over paying for their employees’ contraception

The US Supreme Court was very divided on this issue. However, on Monday, June 30, a majority of judges ruled that, by requesting that employers that provide their workers with health insurance pay...

1 July 2014

Germany: the return of the conflict between EVG, the majority rail union, and GDL, the small train drivers union, is putting the Deutsche Bahn in an awkward situation

The next collective negotiations at the Deutsche Bahn promise to be particularly complicated. Adopted in 2008 after a spectacular conflict, the “cooperation agreement” regulating the relations...

1 July 2014

Great Britain: Parcelforce, Royal Mail’s parcels division, strikes deal with CWU on work on Sunday

The CWU communications’ union has announced that negotiations have been successfully concluded with Parcelforce Worldwide over the impact of the new seven-day service on staff’s working...

30 June 2014

Great Britain: government takes step to support whistleblowing

Whereas the kingdom is shaken by a scandal around bullying of workers who want to denounce bad behaviors at the National Health Service (NHS), the Cameron administration tried to calm things down...

27 June 2014

United States: businesses and States go round the minimum wage block in Washington

After Gap, Ikea has announced a 17-percent increase to its minimum wage. In the US, some large businesses, States and several cities are increasing minimum wage without waiting for the reform of...

27 June 2014

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