Labour relations

The future President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) will be Dennis Williams. The man who used to be secretary-treasurer was elected by his peers during a recent meeting in Dearborn, Michigan...

12 November 2013

Greece: trade industry agitated by the opening of stores on Sunday and the end of the collective agreement

On November 3, private sector workers did a general strike and demonstrated in Athens’ main shopping street to reassert their rights and protect Sundays off, questioned by a law adopted this...

12 November 2013

Germany: in Brandenburg (former GDR), regional administration, unions and employers work hand in hand to try and restore the collective bargaining system and meet the demographic challenge

The Land of Brandenburg is facing a tremendous challenge: by 2030, the population in this region, located in former eastern Germany, should drop by 300,000 people, down to 2.2 million citizens. ...

12 November 2013

Spain: tense renegotiation of the temporary sector’s collective agreement

While the 5th collective agreement covering the sector’s 10,000 employees officially expired at the end of 2010, its renewal still has not been negotiated. Unions and employers’ organizations...

8 November 2013

Crown Holdings: the USW north-American union, in a dispute at the plant in Toronto (Canada), wants to give its campaign a global dimension

Members of USW from Toronto have been on strike since September 6 as Crown Holdings demands major concessions from employees, including two-tier wage rates and pension freezes. The north-American...

8 November 2013

Netherlands: two collective agreements signed in the metal industry (heavy and light metal)

In October, the “metal and technical” branch, also known as light metal, and the “metal and electronics” branch (Metalektro) signed their collective agreements after several months of complicated...

7 November 2013

Great Britain: women still paid much less than women, a situation denounced by the TUC, which demands obligation of transparency from firms

On November 7, British women are no longer paid – or they wouldn’t, if they were paid as much as men every month. This is the shocking revelation the Equal Pay Day wants to put across. This day...

7 November 2013

Mexico: employers say the fiscal reform adopted jeopardizes the social partners’ efforts to introduce supplementary social benefits

Employers are worried about the negative impact the new fiscal reform will have on labor cost, workers’ income, employment and growth. The lawmakers considerably restricted the possibility for...

7 November 2013

Germany: DZ Bank, the cooperative bank, theater of operation for the Verdi services union’s strategy to win the sector back

A major conflict is currently taking place in the cooperative banking industry in Germany. Several hundreds of DZ Bank employees took part, on November 5, in warning strikes in Frankfurt...

7 November 2013

Brazil: oilmen get an 8 percent increase after one week of striking

Workers in the Brazilian oil industry are getting an 8.56 percent wage increase via the new collective labor agreement 2013/15, signed on Monday, October 28, 2013 by the FUP union (Gas Workers...

6 November 2013

Denmark: LO and FTF, the two biggest unions, open join debate on Union Challenges by 2020

It’s a historical process: LO and FTF approved, last week, a joint document on Union Challenges by 2020, which will serve as the foundation for debates involving all the members of the two...

6 November 2013

Italy: first company agreement for Apple Stores

On October 29, Apple signed its first company agreement with the Filcams-CGIL, Fisascat-Cisl and Uiltucs-Uil unions for the approximately 1,300 workers of its 14 Apples Stores in Italy. Signed...

6 November 2013

Great Britain: unions reject businesses’ payout offer in the construction blacklisting case

Details of the proposals to compensate blacklisted workers in the construction industry have emerged. Eight construction companies (Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O’Rourke, Sir...

6 November 2013

Germany: burned by the “Mainz station debacle,” the Deutsche Bahn is doing an in-depth review of staff planning in its 330 firms, with the support of its WCs

Learning from the “Mainz station debacle” (where rail traffic was seriously disturbed this summer because there were not enough employees), the German railway, Deutsche Bahn (DB) announced, on...

5 November 2013

Great Britain: employers staunchly opposed to leaving the EU

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) once again asked to maintain the country in the EU, which it claims provides 4-5 percent of annual GDP. This positioning looks like a campaign when...

5 November 2013

Romania: government banks on the fight against illegal labor to cut its budgetary gap

In the middle of its search for fiscal revenues to fill its deficit, the center-left Romanian government is looking for solutions to combat illegal labor, which recent estimates say robs the State...

5 November 2013

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