Labour relations

The open strike supposed to start today, October 29, was canceled. Indeed, last night, the metal social partners reached an agreement on wages, with an increase between 2.6 and 3.2 percent...

29 October 2013

Great Britain: employers in the food industry join forces to fight illegal labor

Major retail groups joined together within an information campaign aimed to eradicate forced labor of immigrants in the food industry. This problem is booming and the number of reports increased...

29 October 2013

Denmark: HK convention wants to change the union to better meet its members’ needs and be more attractive

With the slogan, “Members at the Center,” HK organized its 31st convention in Copenhagen on October 24-26. With 280,000 members – 75 percent of whom are women – it is the second largest union in...

28 October 2013

China: interview of Hubert Bazin, lawyer in Beijing, about the changes to the Chinese labor market

“For a long time, China was considered as a country with low labor costs and very flexible labor law, with flexible recruitment and layoff options, but it isn’t true anymore.” Hubert Bazin, in...

28 October 2013

Great Britain: Ineos wins battle with Unite the union at its petro-chemical plant at Grangemouth

After the threatened closure of the petro-chemical plant at Grangemouth by owner, Ineos, the Unite union has now agreed not only to all the concessions the company was initially looking for but...

28 October 2013

Brazil: collective agreement signed in the banking industry after 23 days of strike

On Friday, October 18, the National Confederation of Financial Workers (Contraf-CUT, affiliated with the largest union confederation) signed the sector’s 22nd collective agreement for 2013-14 with...

25 October 2013

Great Britain: unions want employees to have a voice in companies’ boards

The Trades Union Confederation (TUC) hit hard, launching a first campaign asking for employee representatives to sit on boards. Currently, there is no law containing the obligation for British...

25 October 2013

Austria: metal unions announce open strike starting on Tuesday, October 29

After the 4th bargaining round failed on October 22, affecting 120,000 of the sector’s 180,000 employees, Pro-Ge and DPA-djp, the metalworkers’ unions, decided to take a harder line and...

24 October 2013

Interview of Denis Pennel, the author of, “Working for yourself: what future for labor at the time of the individualist revolution?”

Individuals’ yearning for fulfilling work matching their life choices implies that the social partners and politicians rethink the social contract, explains Denis Pennel, who wrote a book called...

24 October 2013

Italy: social partners in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry sign framework agreement on ‘high training’ apprenticeship in the sector

On October 8, the Federchimica and Farmindustria employers’ organizations signed a framework agreement with the Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions to regulate the “high training and...

24 October 2013

United States: the fight for fair union vote at Nissan Canton (Mississippi) on a quest for international solidarity

Four came to Paris to raise public awareness to the situation of Nissan’s workers in the Canton plant, Mississippi. In two weeks, they will go to Sao Paulo (Brazil) to build up more solidarity. ...

23 October 2013

Germany: IG BCE chemistry unions wants a 5.5 percent wage increase for the sector’s 550,000 employees

Four days after the end of its convention, the IG BCE chemistry union revealed, on October 22, its wage claims for the collective negotiations that will start at regional level on December 2 in...

23 October 2013

Great Britain: apprenticeship boom

The Cameron administration’s ‘attraction operation’ to bring apprenticeship back to the front of the stage seems to be working. 858,900 people chose this path in 2012/13, according to the latest...

23 October 2013

Italy: CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions call for 4-hour national strike against Stability Act

After the 24-hour strike organized by the independent unions, it is now the three big Italian union confederations’ turn to call for a strike against the planned Stability Act. But their strike...

23 October 2013

Germany: for the first time, employers and unions negotiate minimum wage in the meat industry

It’s a first. On Tuesday, October 22, the German Food Industry Association (VDEW) and the Food, Beverages and Catering union (NGG) opened talks to adopt a collective agreement introducing, for...

23 October 2013

Great Britain: unions and management outdo each other in the conflict between Ineos and Unite at the Grangemouth plant, Scotland

A long running dispute over an inquiry into alleged misuse of company facilities (email) by a Unite-affiliated worker at the Ineos oil and petro-chemical processing plant in Grangemouth, Scotland...

22 October 2013

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