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On March 28, Safran and IndustriAll Europe signed the first European agreement on the professional integration of young people. Bart Samyn, deputy general secretary of the European trade union...

28 March 2013

Spain: Telefónica guarantees employment for a year in exchange for wage moderation and savings on pensions

The agreement reached by the management and trade unions on March 27 provides for a 1% wage increase in 2014 and maintains jobs throughout the period. Employees are foregoing some of the company's...

28 March 2013

Safran: European framework agreement for professional integration of young people

Today, March 28, 2013, Safran Group and the IndustriAll Europe European trade union signed a European framework agreement on the professional integration of young people. With this agreement...

28 March 2013

Great Britain: government wants to encourage employee ownership in businesses

The British government wants to propose giving fiscal incentives to employers who give their employees a stake in the business in which they work. (Ref. 130207)

28 March 2013

Germany: IG-Metall management accepts ‘rescue’ agreement without Bochum plant

Unanimous agreement from the IG-Metall’s management. In North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bochum is located, the IG-Metall union has hardly ever seemed so deeply divided. Indeed, whereas the 3,300...

28 March 2013

Europe: serious games and mobile learning on the rise in vocational training

The latest survey of the Cegos Observatory on widespread vocational training practices in France, Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy, published on March 27, shows that e-learning is on increasing...

27 March 2013

Spain: Caixabank reaches agreement on social plan based on early retirement and voluntary leave

Caixabank unions and management have defined the modalities of the social plans providing for 2,600 leaves - all voluntary. All the representatives unions (CCOO, SECPB, UGT, SIB and CIC-FEC)...

27 March 2013

Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena

The Spanish subsidiary of the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) is determined to identify promising recent graduates at the local level and to expand their skills and competencies for...

27 March 2013

Germany: 6% increase over 2 years for train drivers

Four meetings and several warning strikes took place before the social partners in the rail industry reached an agreement, on Monday, March 25, for a 6% wage increase over two years. The agreement...

26 March 2013

Italy: cement employers and unions reach unitary agreement renewing the sector’s national collective agreement

The unitary agreement signed between the social partners in the cement, plaster, mortar and other construction materials industry renewing the sector's national collective agreement provides...

26 March 2013

Italy: success for the first cross-regional strike organized by independent logistics unions

The first cross-regional strike (mostly Lombardy, Venetia and Emilia-Romania) in the logistics industry, called by the general meeting of logistics workers and the independent trade unions for 24...

25 March 2013

Fiat/Chrysler and CNH: international union network agrees to organize mobilization week for employment and working conditions

After a meeting in Turin on March 19-21, the Fiat/Chrysler and Case New Holland (CNH) union network, supervised by IndustriAll Global Union, agreed to a mobilization week on April 8-12 for the...

25 March 2013

United-States: could there be a works council at Volkswagen Chattanooga soon?

When it comes to building union membership at the plant of German or Japanese carmakers, it seems that the United Auto Workers would be more successful through a German-style works council at...

22 March 2013

Italy: results of the first HRD survey on the impact of the labor market reform (Gi Group)

On March 18, the permanent observatory on the labor market reform, a private initiative by Gi Group, the temporary work and recruitment agency, released the results of its first survey on the...

20 March 2013

United States: pay deal for Boeing technical engineers

After professional engineers and tougher negotiations, Boeing technical engineers ratified a four-year labor deal. New hires will not be entitled to the company's existing pension scheme. (Ref...

20 March 2013

Belgium: Ford Genk’s social plan gives subcontracting staff the same working conditions as direct employees

The management of the Genk plant was satisfied after 71.7% of the workers approved, on Friday night, the social plans signed by the trade unions last week. In the carmaker's subcontracting firms...

18 March 2013

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