Labour relations

The last AFL-CIO convention last week in Los Angeles should be the start of a redefinition. Historically limited by legal restrictions, having a hard time diversify, facing sustained assaults...

16 September 2013

Japan: collective bargaining is getting weaker

In a context of economic crisis where the traditional practice of “lifelong” employment is being questioned, along with the remuneration scheme based on seniority, maintained until the late 90s...

16 September 2013

Great Britain: Wales takes measures against blacklisting in construction

The Welsh Assembly Government, the devolved government for Wales, has announced that public sector bodies in Wales are now permitted how to exclude companies which blacklist when recruiting staff...

13 September 2013

Italy: wood and furniture social partners renew national collective agreement

On September 11, in Milan, the FederlegnoArredo employers’ organization and the Fillea CGIL Filca-Cisl and Feneal-Uil unions signed an agreement renewing the national collective agreement (CCN) in...

13 September 2013

Portugal: wages are down for the second year in a row

First 2013 quarter figures show that wages in Portugal are going down. This drop started two years ago and is the consequence of the application of lower wages when workers are replaced. One...

12 September 2013

United States: Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant about to get a German-style WC

The American labor world is about to go through a historical event. Indeed, on Wednesday, September 11, Bob King, leader of the United Auto Workers union (UAW) told the German and American media...

12 September 2013

Germany: overview of the parties’ campaign programs before the legislative election of September 22

About a week to the German federal election, when speculation about possible coalitions after the vote is rife (reelection of the current CDU/CSU and FDP coalition, a “red-green” coalition between...

12 September 2013

Great Britain: if elected in 2015, Labour promises to tackle ‘zero hours’ contracts

At this year’s Trade Unions Congress, Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, outlined his party’s plans if elected to government in 2015 to regulate the use of zero-hours contracts. This came just...

11 September 2013

Belgium: Brussels Airlines wants to become the “lab for a new social model”

Like all traditional airlines, Brussels Airlines is forced to reposition itself and find the conditions for social and economic durability. But it wants to do it while reviewing its social...

11 September 2013

Spain: 66 Spanish employees affected by the closure of the TK Galmed plant in Sagunto will be redeployed to ThyssenKrupp’s plants in Germany

The agreement was negotiated by the Spanish unions with the group’s European Works Council. For the first time, via a union agreement, ThyssenKrupp gives several Spanish employees the possibility...

11 September 2013

Italy: Ericsson and unions sign industrial plan deal

Ericsson Telecomunicazioni Spa and the SLC-CGIL, Fistel-Cisl and Uilcom-Uil unions as well as the majority of unitary trade union representation bodies (RSU), signed a framework agreement on the...

10 September 2013

United States: informal structure proposes to gather T-Mobile employees

The Communication Workers of America are having a hard time getting into T-Mobile and launched, with the support of their colleagues at Deutsche Telekom (Verdi), an informal structure to create a...

10 September 2013

GDF Suez: new EWC agreement uploaded

After Suez Environnement was “de-consolidated,” GDF Suez amended its EWC agreements at the end of May to take account of the impact this exit would have on the structure’s scope. Since the...

9 September 2013

Italy: logistics, merchandise transport and shipping social partners renew national collective agreement

The 23 employers’ organizations (Assologistica, Conftrasporto, Fedespedi, Fai and Uitai, among others) in logistics, merchandise transport and shipping and the Filt-CGIL, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti...

6 September 2013

Great Britain: the GMB union is going to considerably reduce its involvement in the Labour Party

The Central Executive Council (CEC) of the GMB general union has voted to reduce its current level of membership affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 members to 50,000 members from 1...

5 September 2013

Finland: extremely moderated general framework agreement on pay subject to approval at sectoral level

After the first attempt failed last spring, the 3 union confederations and employers (confederation of industry, State and towns) finally signed, on August 30, a general pay deal called “Agreement...

5 September 2013

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