Labour relations

The Coalition government has established a formal inquiry into the tactics of unions in industrial disputes in the wake of the bitter Ineos-Unite battle at Grangemouth. The prime minister’s office...

18 November 2013

Spain: agreement in the dispute of cleaning and gardening services in Madrid

The agreement reached yesterday, November 17, puts an end to 13 days of strike in cleaning and gardening services in Madrid. It is considered as a victory by the trade unions, UGT (majority union...

18 November 2013

Germany: conservatives and social-democrats announce agreement on the introduction of a mandatory quota of women on boards

The Family Commission, one of the 16 commissions created by Angela Merkel’s conservative union (CDU/CSU) and the social-democratic party (SPD) within the framework of the negotiations for the...

18 November 2013

Denmark: “chain responsibility” in public sites at the center of the campaign for the municipal elections

The issue of social dumping could be decisive in the outcome of the municipal election of November 19. LO signed agreements with left-wing parties in several towns, who commit themselves, in...

18 November 2013

Spain: latest government statistics on collective bargaining show that the agreements negotiated confirm pay freeze or cut

The Ministry of Labor released statistics about the collective agreements signed after the 2012 labor market reform. They point out that lower labor costs have been achieved as one third of...

18 November 2013

Austria: trade social partners sign first collective agreement over 2 years

The social partners in the Austrian trade industry, the DPA-djp union and the Trade Department of the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKÖ), presented, for the first time in the sector’s history, a...

15 November 2013

Canada: H&M strikes first unionization agreement in Quebec

On November 2, the UFCW union announced that workers at H&M in Joliette, Québec had signed their first collective agreement, which expires in 2016 and improves pay conditions and personal...

15 November 2013

United States: IAM rejects Boeing’s new collective contract

The International Union of Machinists (IAM) at Bowing rejected the 8-year contract guaranteeing employment in exchange for major concessions in terms of retirement and health Boeing offered to...

15 November 2013

Germany: Verdi unions agrees to the 2.3 percent wage increase negotiated at the end of October at IBM Deutschland

On Monday, November 11, Verdi’s Federal Committee on information technologies and data processing accepted the collective agreement negotiated by the company social partners at the end of October...

14 November 2013

Great Britain: Unite launches credit union network to save its members from contracting payday loans

The Unite union has launched a new credit union service, in a bid it says ‘to take on payday lenders, encourage saving and offer members finance without fear’. The service has been expressly...

14 November 2013

Japan: the long working hours culture is hard to oust

In Japan, even if the official workweek is 40 hours, unpaid overtime remains an old tradition. In spite of some changes to labor law and the effort made by some businesses to avoid abuses...

14 November 2013

Italy: after leaving Eni, Snam is defining its own industrial relations model

Snam Group, the biggest company in Italy for transportation, regasification, supply and storage of natural gas, signed an agreement on October 17 for a new industrial relations system with the...

13 November 2013

Estonia: first finance union created

So far, Estonia didn’t have a trade union in the finance industry. Since September 11, 2013, the sector’s workers can join a sectoral union. Officially called the “Estonian Association of...

13 November 2013

Austria: collective bargaining in the metal industry end with a 2.8 percent unitary increase

After bargaining for 7 weeks, the social partners in the metal industry signed, on Thursday, November 8, the 6th and last collective agreement for the 7,000 foundry workers. For the six sub metal...

13 November 2013

Germany: employees blame Microsoft for trying to close 3 sites to part with critical personnel representatives

Is the “trust-based working time” system a good thing for employees, allowing for greater work-life balance, or is it a bad thing, leading to unchecked work overload, or both at the same time? An...

12 November 2013

Switzerland: vivid debate over the referendum to reduce the gap between the highest and lowest wages in companies

On November 24, Swiss citizens will have to vote for or against the popular initiative launched by the Young Socialists. They want to impose, via a constitutional amendment, a maximum 1-12...

12 November 2013

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