Labour relations

The management of Caterpillar and the United Steelworkers’ union ratified a new six-year labor contract in the South Milwaukee plant in Wisconsin. Employees get a $4,000 (nearly €3,000) signing...

14 June 2013

Italy: Eni and unions sign agreement to ‘help’ nearly 1,000 workers retire and hire 300 young people

Eni and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions signed an agreement to ‘help’ about 1,000 workers through retirement while recruiting 300 young graduates and ‘stabilizing’ temporary...

14 June 2013

United States: AFL-CIO uses participatory democracy to prepare its 2013 Convention

Weaker than ever, the American union movement needs to get young people and minorities to join while defending its position in sectors where it is still present. This difficult task will be the...

13 June 2013

Germany: new setback for the CGB Christian union

Seized by the majority services union, Verdi, the Federal Labor Court of Erfurt issued an appeals judgment, on June 11, stating that the small health union, Medsonet, affiliated with the Christian...

12 June 2013

Germany: one of the biggest low-wage sectors in Europe

In 2010, 22.2 percent of German employees received a low income. Germany has the 7th biggest low-wage sector in the EU. This is the result of a new study released on June 10 by the WSI Institute...

11 June 2013

Great Britain: the use of ‘Section 188’ to impose less advantageous changes upon employees’ working conditions continues

It seems that the use of ‘Section 188’ is growing, even in the private sector. While it used to be more common in the public and non-market sectors, this provision allowing employers to amend...

11 June 2013

EON SE: commentary of the agreement on employee participation in the new European company

On October 16, 2012, EON SE signed the agreement on employee participation. On November 15, 2012, the company officially became a European company and the SE’s EWC met for the first time in...

11 June 2013

Lafarge: group management, EWC and EFBWW European federation sign declaration on wellbeing at work

On May 23, the management of Lafarge Group, its EWC and the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) signed a declaration on wellbeing at work. This declaration comes on top of the...

10 June 2013

Spain: textile/clothing collective agreements renewed in spite of disagreements among employers

The CIE employers’ organization and the Fiteqa-CCOO and FITAG-UGT unions signed the new collective agreement for the textile industry on June 5. Employers in the fashioning and weaving industry...

10 June 2013

Germany: 5.4 percent wage increase over 24 months in the insurance industry

Insurance social partners reached, on the night of June 7, a deal for a 5.4 percent wage increase divided in two over 24 months. The agreement covers about 95 percent of the sector’s employees...

10 June 2013

Belgium: government puts social partners in charge of coming up with the single status for blue- and white-collar workers

About 30 days before the deadline set by the Constitutional Court to get rid of the differences between blue-collar and white-collar workers, the government failed to agree, during the Council of...

10 June 2013

Great Britain: groundbreaking agreement to build the new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point

After months of negotiating, the UCATT, Unite and GMB unions have secured agreement with the client, EDF Energy, and the principal contractor, Bouygues Laing O’Rourke, a 'Common Framework...

6 June 2013

Germany: Karstadt, Amazon…, the Verdi union is fighting several battles to improve collective agreements in retail trade

Since the Karstadt department store company announced, in mid-May, that it wanted to get out, for two years, of the collective agreements in force in retail trade, a major dispute burst out...

6 June 2013

Italy: Turin Court of Appeal toughens sanctions against Eternit management (asbestos)

On Monday, June 3, the Court of Appeal of Turin sentenced Stephan Schmidheiny, the former Swiss CEO of Eternit, to 18 years’ imprisonment for “permanent culpable disaster and culpable omission of...

5 June 2013

Sweden: fashion and textile businesses sign agreement that tries to take low wages into account

The fashion and textile industry is the sector where wages are the lowest in manufacturing. This is way the agreement signed on April 2, 2013 after other manufacturing agreements signed by TEKO...

5 June 2013

Lafarge: interview of Philippe Jacquesson, SVP Social Policies for the group, about the global agreement on fundamental social rights and international social relations

In 2005, when it signed its Global Framework Agreement on fundamental rights, the French group was already a pioneer in establishing global dialogue with international unions. On May 21, the...

4 June 2013

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