Labour relations

For Verdi, the second largest union affiliated with the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) after the IG-Metall, 2014 is starting with good news. For the first time since it was created in...

10 January 2014

Belgium: the FGTB’s General Federation and the Textile, Clothing and Diamond federation merged on January 1, 2014

Launched in 2010, the negotiations for this merger were accelerated with the 2012 social election. Indeed, fully hit by the crisis in the textile industry, the FGTB-TVD had, for a while, looking...

10 January 2014

Argentina: unions demand wages increases of at least 30 percent to make up for inflation

The Workers’ Central Union (Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina, CTA) announced it wouldn’t discuss wage increases below 30-35 percent at the next round of collective negotiations. Together...

10 January 2014

Switzerland: unions announce offensive to extend collective agreements and update the legislative package supervising them

On January 7, the Swiss union confederation (USS-SGB) organized its annual press conference. For 2014, it announced a “major commitment” to develop and renew the collective labor agreement (CCT)...

9 January 2014

Australia: government wants to revive competitiveness in Tasmania

While its has the highest unemployment rate in Australia, Tasmania has just been the target of a government recovery program. The idea is to give bonuses to businesses that hire jobseekers.

9 January 2014

Romania: Western Europe isn’t the subject of dreams anymore

The complete opening of the European labor market for Romanian and Bulgarian workers on January 1, 2014 didn’t lead, as some feared, to an invasion of low-skilled workers towards the continent’s...

9 January 2014

Greece: new collective agreement for hotel staff for 2014/15

In Greece, since last season, tourism has been enjoying a bright spell that seems to be lasting. In this context, the new collective agreement for restaurant workers was signed on December 30 for...

8 January 2014

Denmark: manufacturing social partners start bargaining to renew the sector’s collective agreement

Wage increase and enhanced training are some of the key themes of the negotiations for the renewal of the manufacturing collective agreement launched on January 7 by Dansk Industri for employers...

8 January 2014

EU: the last statutory barriers to labor market access for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are down, but prejudice remains

The last barriers to access the labor market for Romanian and Bulgarian citizens fell on January 1. Until then, using the maximum transition period negotiated in the membership treaty for these...

8 January 2014

Germany: involved in a long dispute with the Verdi union, Amazon is backed up by part of its staff

For the Verdi services union, which has been fighting for over a year so that the world leader in online retail improves pay in Germany, this is a serious, unexpected blow. Over 1,000 Amazon...

7 January 2014

Italy: banking social partners reopen dialogue with the renewal of the sector’s solidarity fund

After the sector’s employers’ organization (Abi) unilaterally terminated, in September, the national collective agreement, causing a break, and following the general strike in the sector on...

7 January 2014

Latin America: ILO worried about the lack of economic vigorousness in the region, and its negative impact on the labor market

“Panorama Laboral 2013,” the report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Latin America and the Caribbean gives a rather gloomy evaluation of the employment situation. Although...

7 January 2014

United States: employers won’t have to tell workers their labor rights

Following an unfavorable court decision, the National Labor Relations Board decided not to challenge the decision about the right to hang posters on labor rights and collective bargaining in the...

6 January 2014

Great Britain: TUC union calls for “triple alliance” to revitalise union membership in the private sector

Frances O'Grady, the TUC general secretary, in her New Year message called for a 'triple alliance' of labour unions, progressive politicians and civic groups to renew and revitalise union...

6 January 2014

United States: machinists at Boeing give up traditional pension to maintain production for the future 777X

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has just made a major compromise for Boeing. In return for producing the future 777X in Washington State, where the company...

6 January 2014

Sweden: the agreement signed in the banking industry provides for a guaranteed wage increase over 3 years

The Finansförbundet union caused a sensation in September when it decided to terminate the agreement binding it to the BAO employers’ organization but only on the ‘remuneration’ chapter. ...

23 December 2013

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