Labour relations

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

Great Britain: Political party conferences announce policies to woo voters at the next general election set for May 2015

With the next general election in May 2015 only eight months away, the last round of annual conferences of the main political parties has taken on an added importance as they begin to lay out...

2 October 2014

Sweden: the new prime minister wants to reform unemployment insurance and training, and to safeguard the labor market

Unions are delighted with the social-democrat parliamentary election win and the nomination of the former President of the IF Metall union as Prime Minister. Elected on September 14, the Prime...

2 October 2014

Denmark: overall union membership numbers rise but they still decline in some of the traditional unions

Gone are the days of declining union membership in Denmark. Over the past four years membership has risen from 67% to 69%. Union members continue to show a preference for joining “yellow” unions...

1 October 2014

Italy: Lavazza decides to do away with collective agreements operating at its principal place of business

Last week Lavazza announced it was looking to overhaul company agreements, in place since 1972, at its principal premises, the ‘historic’ Settimo Torinese factory. This is to make way for the new...

30 September 2014

International: the union federation IndustriALL has launched a new publication to help members confront precarious work

In response to the expansion of precarious work as one of the biggest threats facing unions, IndustriALL has launched a publication aimed at promoting collective negotiation as a tool in the fight...

29 September 2014

Sweden: agreement to include final year internships for students in the real estate sector

On September 4, 2014, the partners in the real estate sector agreed on a program of student cooperation: “studentmedarbetareavtal”. This initiative originates from Denmark where for a long time...

29 September 2014

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