Labour relations

Air France/KLM management and EWC signed, on June 12, 2013, a framework agreement regarding the outstation and commercial organization in Europe (except France and the Netherlands). Almost...

26 June 2013

Austria: GPA-djp private workers’ union wants to limit ‘all-in’ contracts

The GPA-djp has declared war on the exponential increase in ‘all-in’ labor contracts whereby employees are paid the same price regardless of the time they spend working. At a press conference on...

25 June 2013

Spain: national engineering and technical studies collective agreement renewed

On June 14, the FeS-UGT and Comfia-CCOO majority unions and the Tecniberia employers’ organization signed the sector’s 17th collective agreement. It provides for a 0.8 percent wage increase in...

25 June 2013

Great Britain: CWU secures employment conditions for employees at Telefonica o2 call centres outsourced to Capita

After an intense period of negotiations and under the threat of a possible strike, Telefonica o2 has agreed to concede to a number of the demands of the CWU communications workers’ union over the...

24 June 2013

Italy: complete success for the first large unitary demonstration organized by the three union confederations

For the first time in ten years and after a long period of separate agreements, the CGIL, Cisl and Uil union organizations took to the capital’s streets together with a unitary platform of demands...

24 June 2013

Germany: not enough training or jobs created in aviation, IG-Metall says

During the Paris Air Show, the IG-Metall union published an analysis of the employment situation in the German aeronautics industry. It is based on a “survey” carried out between March 2012 and...

24 June 2013

Spain: in 2012, nearly one third of large businesses allegedly used internal flexibility to avoid layoffs

Encouraging internal labor flexibility has been one of the primary objectives of the latest labor reform. A year after the reform came into force, the Ministry of Employment and Social Security...

24 June 2013

France: employment and training at the center of the government’s social roadmap

As expected, the second Social Conference, organized in Paris on June 20-21, was mostly a ‘warm-up lap’ for the government and the social partners before a series of negotiations on thorny issues...

24 June 2013

Germany: 24-month pay deal in industrial cleaning

Yesterday, Thursday, June 20, the social partners in the industrial cleaning sector – the IG BAU construction union and the National Guild Association of the Building-Cleaning Trade (BIV) –...

21 June 2013

Enel: new global framework agreement on fundamental social rights and establishment of a global works council

On June 14, Enel Group and IndustriAll Global Union, Public Services International (PSI) and the Filctem-CGIL, Flaei-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil Italian unions signed a global framework agreement. In it...

20 June 2013

Great Britain: Royal Mail employees fight the government’s plans to sell the public company

Members of the CWU communications union have voted in a ballot by 92% on a 74% turnout to oppose the privatisation of Royal Mail through a boycott of competitors’ mail as well as through...

20 June 2013

Italy: Luxottica, once again a pioneer in terms of employee social protection

Strongly committed to CSR, Luxottica, the world leader in luxury spectacle trade, is breaking new barriers down in terms of corporate social protection. Indeed, with a new agreement, it extends...

20 June 2013

Germany: head of Porsche’s works council revives debate on “union bonuses” for IG-Metall members

Can/should collective agreements contain clauses granting advantages to affiliated workers alone? By calling for an additional bonus for IG-Metall members in the next bargaining round in the...

19 June 2013

Spain: graphic arts renew national collective agreement

On June 13, the FeS-UGT and CCOO unions and the FEIGRAF, FGEE and AFCO employers’ organizations signed the 23rd collective agreement for the graphic arts industry. It will cover about 150,000...

19 June 2013

International: UNI Graphical and Packaging defines new priority actions for its members

The Executive Committee of the UNI Graphical and Packaging international trade union recently defined new priorities for its affiliates across the globe. UNI Graphical and Packaging represents...

19 June 2013

Germany: universal minimum wage at the heart of the election campaign

About 100 days to the German federal election, the issue of introducing universal minimum wage has been revived. All political parties are now in favor of the introduction of minimum wage but not...

18 June 2013

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