Labour relations

In its monthly report, published early May 2014, the general employers’ association AWVN rings the alarm bell over the poor record of concluded agreements in 2014. According to the organisation...

15 May 2014

GDF SUEZ : global agreement on health and safety at work signed

Yesterday May 13, Gérard Mestrallet, CEO of GDF SUEZ, and the global union federations of industrial and energy workers (IndustriALL) of the building (BWI) and public services (PSI) sectors...

14 May 2014

Brazil: in the run up to the World Cup, trade-unions, employers and judges on the edge

One month before the football World Cup kicks off, several occupational categories are announcing or are launching strikes in Brazil. Like the labour judges, employers are on the edge. The former...

14 May 2014

Italy: energy and oil social partners renew collaboration with Inail on health and safety

On April 30, Inail - the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work -, Confindustria Energia, the Femca-Cisl, Filctem-CGIL and Uiltec-Uil unions signed a framework agreement...

13 May 2014

Germany: an ardent European, Reiner Hoffmann, new head of the DGB union confederation, calls for a more social Europe

An era is ending and another is starting: after leading the biggest union confederation in Germany (8 affiliated unions, 6.1 million members) for 12 years, outgoing President Michael Sommer gave...

13 May 2014

Switzerland: minimum wage has little chance of prevailing at the May 18 referendum

Next Sunday, Swiss citizens will have to vote on the introduction of universal minimum wage in the amount of CHF 4,000 (€3,275) a month. Launched by the USS-UGB union confederation and supported...

12 May 2014

Italy: CGIL ends 17th convention united with Cisl and Uil to face Renzi’s assaults against unions

Susanna Camusso was confirmed as the head of the CGIL at the union’s 17th convention in Rimini on May 6-8, with 953 delegates representing 5.7 million members. The majority approved the general...

12 May 2014

Great Britain: union members balloted for the maintenance of political funds

For the fourth time, union members are going to vote for or against the maintenance of unions’ political funds is now taking place. Indeed, the Trade Union Act 1984 requires a union to ballot its...

12 May 2014

Generali: EWC gets social guarantees within the framework of its plan to set up a single entity for managing activities and IT infrastructure services

Within the framework of the decision made by Generali, the Italian insurer, to set up a single entity to manage IT infrastructure services and activities, the EWC has gotten the management not to...

7 May 2014

Russia: interview of Elena Gerasimova, from the Center for social and labor rights, about industrial relations

Elena Gerasimova specializes in labor law and is the head of the Center for social and labor rights. For 11 years, this NGO has been promoting compliance with and knowledge of workers’ rights in...

6 May 2014

Italy: CGIL launches 17th convention in the middle of a conflict with its left wing regarding union representation, with the government constantly reducing unions’ legitimacy in the background

Whereas the results of referendums on the interconfederal agreement on union representation – one organized by the CGIL (backed by 95.5 percent of voters) and the other by its metalworkers’...

6 May 2014

Sweden: the union created by the far-right party, SD, sets up first sectoral federation in private security

As an answer to the decision made by some union organizations - e.g. Transportarbetareförbund, the transport workers’ union - to not accept members from the far-right party (Sverige Demokraterna...

5 May 2014

China: 30 percent more social disputes

With more than 200 since the year started, strikes and other social movements have increased by more than 30 percent compared with the same period last year, according to China Labor Bulletin, the...

5 May 2014

Argentina: auto industry crisis in Mercosur causes job cuts and short-time working in plants

Lower sales and exports combined with higher taxes are causing trouble for almost all the carmakers present in the country. More than 4,500 workers are affected by work suspensions and pay cuts. ...

5 May 2014

Great Britain: Unite’s dispute fund is quietly growing

Nearly 2 years after its creation, the dispute fund of the Unite union now stands at nearly £30m (€36.5m). It was established in 2012 under the then new general secretary, Len McCluskey with the...

2 May 2014

Great Britain: at least 1.4 million workers with a zero-hours contract

Once again, official statistics on the controversial zero-hours contracts - which guarantee no pay or working hours - have been revised upward. Unions are talking about “abuse” becoming the norm...

30 April 2014

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