Labour relations

The collective negotiations carried out in 2013 mostly led to wage increases above inflation, revealed the Inter Trade Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (Dieese) in its...

4 April 2014

Great Britain: the government is ready to step back on employment tribunal fees

A Minister said that the Cameron team is allegedly thinking about trimming the fees recently introduced to relieve employment tribunals, as unions say they have actually emptied them.

3 April 2014

Austria: banking industry negotiates 2.15 percent wage increase with the crisis in Eastern Europe in the background

Only 4 meetings (1 in 2013) were necessary for the social partners in the Austrian banking industry to reach, on the early morning of Tuesday, April 1, an agreement providing for an average 2.15...

3 April 2014

Tunisia: on the path to flexicurity?

On January 29, the IMF allowed the payout of the 2nd part of the standby arrangement signed in June 2013 for 329.1 billion SDRs (Special Drawing Rights). The total amount reaches 1.146 billion...

3 April 2014

Argentina: in spite of the wage agreement in the metal industry, several unions are calling for a general strike on April 10

Joint bargaining is very tense, with the announcement of a general strike and the threat of numerous mobilization actions. Whereas the official union praises the agreement reached in the metal...

3 April 2014

Belgium: sectoral agreements in the metal industry for 2013-14

Since the beginning of 2014, sectoral agreements have been signed in several joint committees in the metal industry. Here are the key agreements for blue-collar and white-collar workers in the...

2 April 2014

Italy: banking unions agree to defend a new banking model while renewing the sector’s national collective agreement

The unitary platform renewing the banking CCN, signed on March 24 by the Dircredito, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub and UGLcredito unions, puts the defense of employment and the adoption of a...

1 April 2014

Great Britain: PCS union to try first knowledge transfer “strike”

At Hewlett Packard, about 1,500 information technology staff, affiliated with the PCS, are being balloted over industrial action short of a strike to save the jobs of 400 of their colleagues whose...

1 April 2014

Michelin: European framework agreement on CSR signed with the EWC

This agreement, negotiated with the extended EWC bureau and validated by the plenary body, was signed on March 26. This CSR agreement contains commitments to comply with international standards...

31 March 2014

Belgium: agreement for 2013-14 in the insurance industry

The collective agreement for the insurance sector was signed in February 2014. It is characterized by pay austerity and further flexibility, as well as a greater effort in terms of training and...

28 March 2014

Canada: truckers at Port Metro Vancouver stop strike after threat of back-to-work legislation

Striking truckers at Port Metro Vancouver went back on to work Thursday morning (27 March), after a one-month strike. The threat of a back-to-work legislation by the Parliament of the British...

28 March 2014

International: unions on both sides of the Atlantic are mobilized for a US-EU trade agreement that addresses social and environmental rights

European and American union organizations have already expressed concern having regard to the development of the negotiations for the trade agreement between the EU and the US, officially launched...

28 March 2014

Great Britain: more and more women on boards

Women now account for 20.7% of board positions in the FTSE100 companies, according to the third annual progress report on the subject. The government is thrilled by this result but some still...

27 March 2014

Greece: new national collective labor agreement signed

The negotiations between employers’ representatives and the private sector workers’ union federation (GSEE) led, on Wednesday, March 26, to the new national collective labor agreement (EGSEE), in...

27 March 2014

Romania: the union movement is clinically dead

The amendment, three years ago, of the Labor Code and Social Dialogue Act has considerably diminished unions’ powers, which were already not doing great.

27 March 2014

Germany: Family and Justice Ministers present outline of a law introducing a mandatory quota of 30 percent of women on boards

In spite of lasting vivid criticism from employers’ organizations and the right wing of Angela Merkel’s conservative union (CDU/CSU), the social democratic party, the chancellor’s new coalition...

26 March 2014

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