Labour relations

Whereas the auto trade and repair business is suffering from a major erosion of the collective agreements system, the IG-Metall metalworkers’ union announced, on March 18, that it signed a very...

19 March 2014

Italy: Fabi, the major banking union, placed its convention under the sign of a new banking model

The convention of the Autonomous Federation of Italian Bank Workers (Fabi), which took place in Rome on March 10-14, revolved around a proposal for a new social banking system to solve the crisis...

18 March 2014

Spain: Iberia signs competitiveness agreements

The airline is getting ready to put an end to more than 16 months of social dispute, after signing a series of agreements in principle with unions representing different categories of staff in...

18 March 2014

Great Britain: apparently, the government has won its bet to limit employment disputes

New tribunal fees, limited compensation against unfair dismissals or even the introduction of conciliation to avoid complaints… since it came to power in 2010, the Cameron administration has been...

18 March 2014

Denmark: end of the 2014 sectoral collective bargaining round

Yesterday, March 17, Asbjørn Jensen, the conventional mediator (forligsmand), presented, together with the DA employers’ organization and LO union, the draft agreement (mæglingsforslag) for...

18 March 2014

China: 50 percent of IBM Shenzhen workers leave the company rather than being transferred to Lenovo

More than half the workers decided to accept the American company’s offer to leave rather than going with Lenovo.

14 March 2014

EU: UNI Europa publishes brochure on EWCs as tools for transnational action

Throughout 2013, UNI Europa, the European trade union federation, carried out a project on EWCs in several sectors – finance, trade, cleaning services and graphics. There were two objectives...

13 March 2014

United States: President Obama wants to extend overtime pay beneficiaries

Barack Obama is going to ask the Department of Labor to review overtime pay in order to get more employees covered. To that end, he wants to update the Labor Standards Act, which provides that...

13 March 2014

Germany: employers worried about the impact retirement at 63 could have on the shortage of skilled workers

Several big employers’ organizations in Germany sounded the alarm: the government’s pension reform bill, which introduces retirement at 63 for people who paid contributions for 45 years, could...

12 March 2014

Romania: social aspects of the new government’s program

After a cabinet reshuffle in the beginning of this month, the center-left Prime Minister lowered several social objectives to which he had committed when he took office in 2012, notably the...

11 March 2014

China: official unions support strike at Pepsi

A national strike has been paralyzing several Pepsi factories in China, protesting against layoff and pay cuts. Besides, and this is extremely rare in the People’s Republic, unions back the...

10 March 2014

Great Britain: revised figures on the reality of zero hour contracts make political waves

The government has revealed that the incidence of the use of zero hour contracts is more than double its previous pronouncement. After a campaign of political pressure by political parties, unions...

10 March 2014

Great Britain: Unite union to pay £1.5m per year less to Labour

Unite, the largest union and the largest union affiliate to Labour, has announced that it will reduce the number of members it affiliates to the Labour Party from 1,000,000 to 500,000, thus...

7 March 2014

China: IBM workers strike over transfer to Lenovo

Over 1,000 workers from an IBM factory in Shenzhen, China, have been on strike for 4 days to protest against the conditions of their transfer to Chinese PC maker Lenovo.

7 March 2014

Italy: temporary work social partners sign permanent text of deal renewing the sector’s national collective agreement

On February 27, the NIdiL CGIL, Felsa CISL and UIL Tem.p@ unions and the Assolavoro employers’ organization signed the final text of the temporary work industry’s national collective labor...

6 March 2014

Brazil: metalworkers at Volkswagen site approve short-time working for 300 workers

A majority of the 3,400 workers at Volkswagen’s São José dos Pinhais plant (Paraná, south-east of Brazil) approved, on February, an agreement with the German carmaker that suspends, for 3 months...

6 March 2014

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