Labour relations

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

Italy: together, unions and employers call on government to adopt stability act boosting employment and growth

“A stability act for employment and growth” is the title of the documents signed on September 2 by Giorgio Squinzi, leader of Confindustria, and Susanna Camusso, Raffaele Bonanni and Luigi...

4 September 2013

Germany: Daimler, Volkswagen…, controversy over abusive appeal to subcontracting catches up with German auto groups

While unions are calling for a law against excessive use of “service provision contracts” (Werkverträge), the Handelsblatt economic daily revealed, on September 2, that Volkswagen was apparently...

4 September 2013

Italy: Fiat agrees to let Fiom-CGIL representatives in but demands a law on union representativeness to keep investing in Italy

On September 2, Fiat informed the Fiom – the CGIL’s metalworkers’ federation, deprived of union rights – that it could appoint representatives. This decision follows the Constitutional Court’s...

3 September 2013

United States: Goodyear’s new pay deal provides for compromises and maintains activity for 4 years

The USW negotiators signed a 4-year pay deal with Goodyear, the tire maker. They had to make compromises on the pension scheme and profit-sharing in return for the maintenance of the 6 American...

3 September 2013

Great Britain: the controversy over zero hour contracts continues

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) revised its first estimate (200,000 contracts), saying that 250,000 people were employed on these contracts, based on its Labour Force Survey. The contracts...

2 September 2013

Germany: lukewarm evaluations for Kristina Schröder, CDU Minister for Family Affairs, and Ursula von der Leyen, CDU Minister for Employment

Notorious rivals within the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU), Kristina Schröder, Minister for Family Affairs, and Ursula von der Leyen, Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, have things in...

2 September 2013

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