Labour relations

The strategy for the 3 years to come of the 3F union, the biggest union in Denmark, which organizes workers in construction, manufacturing, transportation, the public sector and services, revolves...

23 September 2013

Germany: crisis agreement for 20,000 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe employees

On Wednesday, September 18, the IG-Metall’s Collective Agreements Commission approved the crisis agreement negotiated in mid-September between ThyssenKrupp’s management and the union. It offers...

19 September 2013

Luxembourg: agreement on moral harassment in the banking industry

On September 17, banking unions in Luxembourg (ALEBA, OGB-L and LCGB-SESF) signed, with the banking employers’ organization (ABBL), an agreement on moral harassment. It transposes the 2009...

19 September 2013

Denmark: Danish Crown workers reject the agreement providing for the payment of part of their salary to an investment company to revive pig farming and maintain employment in the industry

The proposal to invest part of the salary to improve pig farming in the next 4 years, to keep Danish Crown’s slaughterhouses in the country from closing, failed to convince a majority of...

18 September 2013

Germany: three-year pay deal in the temporary work industry

On September 17, the social partners in the temporary work industry, a sector which currently employs, in average, 800,000 people a year, signed a collective agreement on pay. Until December 31...

18 September 2013

Belgium: new pay freeze controversy

By deciding to freeze pay (outside indexation and scale increases), the government thought it had effectively prepared the ground to put together the notorious “competitiveness pact” the Federal...

18 September 2013

Germany: IG-Metall union and Meyer Werft, the shipbuilder, sign new collective agreement on subcontractors’ working conditions

Approximately two months after two Romanian workers died in a fire, the IG Metall Küste (coastal federation) and the German shipbuilder Meyer Werft announced, on September 16, that they signed...

17 September 2013

Italy: banking employers’ organization, Abi, terminates national collective agreement and unions prepare for general strike

On September 16, ten months early, Abi officially let the Dircredito, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub, UGL-Credito and Uilca unions that it terminated the national collective agreement in...

17 September 2013

Germany: Ministry of Employment, employers and unions commit to fight stress at work together

After bargaining for a year and a half within the framework of the “Joint Occupational Safety and Health Strategy (GDA),” the German Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, the BDA employers’...

17 September 2013

European Works Council: comparative study of three agreements in the transportation industry

Three transportation firms signed an EWC agreement in 2012 in order to adjust their structure to the new EWC Directive, 2009/38: UPS, British Airways and Kuehne + Nagel (K + N). Two of them are...

16 September 2013

United States: AFL-CIO union opens up to other civil society organizations to recover some ground

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

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