Labour relations

Since the introduction of fees for employees for applying for relief at an employment tribunal, the number of applications have fallen dramatically argues the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The TUC...

30 July 2014

Spain: government, employers and unions agree on an agenda for economic recovery and job creation

Yesterday (July 29), the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, union and employers’ organizations leaders concluded an « agreement containing proposals for the tripartite negotiation » that puts...

29 July 2014

Italy : Intesa Sanpaolo signs an agreement which sets a framework for its diversity policy

In July 24, Intesa Sanpaolo signed, with the group's trade union representatives, a "Protocol on inclusion and equal opportunities" that sets up the framework for the future collective bargaining...

29 July 2014

United States : fast food workers to escalate wage and unionization demands

« Whatever it takes »: that’s the action plan of the fast food workers’ movement which is about to celebrate the second birthday of the campaign to raise the minimum wage in the industry to 15 $...

29 July 2014

Italy: survey by Banca d’Italia on company bargaining’s development and prospects

The study by the Bank of Italy published this month describes the evolution of company negotiations, especially to point to obstacles - the first being uncertainty regarding the conditions of...

25 July 2014

Netherlands: assessment of collective bargaining in 2013

In a report of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment an assessment is made of the development of collective bargaining in 2013. It is based on a sample of 100 collective agreements, which...

24 July 2014

International: social databases, a growing tool supporting the coordination of collective bargaining at global level

Recently, in 2 large multinational firms - Fiat-Chrysler and Petrobras - global union alliances have committed, at the end of their annual meeting, to making databases to have the possibility of...

23 July 2014

Italy: TNT Group strikes deal for insourcing handling operations

Transport unions and TNT signed the first agreement for insourcing handling operations in Italy. It is based on the protocol signed in February by the sector’s unions and employers’ organization...

23 July 2014

Italy: unions divided over workers’ ‘sacrifices’ to save Alitalia

After a separate framework agreement on the dismissal of 1,635 employees and the management of employment consequences of the alliance with Etihad, signed by the Fit-Cisl, Uil Trasporti-UIl and...

21 July 2014

Great-Britain: Unite is now implementing its harder line with employers

Following Unite biennial policy conference at the end of June this year, the union has begun to implement a ‘get tough’ policy with what it considers to be recalcitrant employers. This has led to...

17 July 2014

International: Uni Global Union and the Latin American Federation of Banks, Felaban, sign a global framework agreement

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

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