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Portugal: more strikes in oil, energy and transportation
The federation of heavy industry and oil unions, Fiequimetal, issued a three-day strike notice for September 17, 18 and 19, 2012. It is calling for wage increases and protesting against the new...
3 September 2012
Safran: European negotiations to integrate young people in the company
The international high tech supplier and the European manufacturing federations, IndustriALL European Trade Union, should meet on September 20 to negotiate a European agreement on the integration...
2 September 2012
Italy: new interconfederal agreement gives union headquarters the authority to validate the authenticity of consensual resignations and terminations
Confindustria, the employers' organization, and the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions signed, on August 3, an agreement allowing unions to confirm the authenticity of resignations, a procedure introduced...
31 August 2012
United States: Siemens plant blamed for union busting a few weeks after signing an international framework agreement
Just
like T-Mobile USA – Deutsche Telekom’s American subsidiary, see our dispatch No. 120403 –, the management of a Siemens unit
in the US is being accused of antiunion practices. A few days...
31 August 2012
Italy: GDF Suez Energia Italia Spa and unions sign new IR protocol
On the one hand, a “more and more technically sophisticated market, the unruliness of the energy market and the increase in competitive pressure.” On the other, the process of integrating the...
30 August 2012
Germany: Verdi and police unions fight in the airport safety sector
Verdi says security agents aren’t police. “They’re liars, crooks!” Andreas Sander, chief negotiator in the aircraft industry for Verdi, doesn’t mince his words when describing the way the German...
30 August 2012
Italy: ENEL signs new industrial relations protocol
Goals and confrontation levels. To face the market crisis and tighter competitiveness, the protocol is banking on strengthening a “constructive atmosphere” based on dialogue and mutual trust, in...
29 August 2012
Germany: Ufo flight attendants union launches strike at Lufthansa
Coming back from a vacation might be tricky in Germany. On Tuesday, August 26, the small flying personnel union, Ufo, called on Lufthansa's 19,000 flight attendants to take part in strike action...
28 August 2012
Great Britain: small unions are having a hard time influencing negotiations on public sector pensions
Unison members in England and Wales have voted 90.2% in favour of accepting the now revised changes to the LGPS following a ‘yes’ vote recommendation by their union leadership. The revised...
28 August 2012
Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn’t an all-female issue anymore
Somewhere between a changing table and the production hall. The biggest heavyweight assembly plant in the world, Mercedes-Benz’s site in Wörth, North Rhine-Westphalia, spreads over 2.4000.000...
27 August 2012
Italy: operations at Ilva Tarente will resume if it gets up to date
The two ordinances, signed on July 26 by the judge for preliminary investigations of the Tarente Court, Patrizia Todisco, within the framework of the investigation on the “environmental disaster...
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27 August 2012
Portugal: labor cost 10 percent higher than the average in the Euro zone
Portuguese competitiveness is slowly going up, the Central Bank of Portugal having published slightly decreasing unitary labor costs. However, it is still higher than the average in the rest of...
27 August 2012
France: PSA Sevelnord agreement revives debate on competitiveness agreements
On July 12, PSA Peugeot Citroën announced 8,000 job cuts across the country and the closing of the Aulnay site (Seine-Saint-Denis), which employs 3,000 people. For the Sevelnord plant in Hordain...
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24 August 2012
Germany: 9,300 Opel staff on short-time working
6 percent net loss of income. What a sad birthday! On the brand’s 150th birthday – Opel was created on August 23, 1862 –, the company’s management announced, with unions’ consent, that it was...
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24 August 2012
Great Britain: 2011 strike statistics released
The government has published its annual statistical analysis of strike activity for 2011, showing that nearly 1.4 million days were not worked as a result of 149 strikes involving 1.53m workers...
23 August 2012
Italy: Manpower’s new group agreement improves work-life balance
Saying that unions had shown “true realism and responsibility” in the context of “deep” crisis in the sector – which has also affected American temporary work giants –, Cristian Sesena, Filcams...
23 August 2012
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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Pascale Rauline (Axa EWC): “European charter formalises ongoing and accelerated social dialogue on AI”
On 27 November, Axa and its European works council (EWC) signed a charter setting out principles governing the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and guaranteeing social dialogue on the...
3 December 2025
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Germany: crisis-hit industries cast shadow over 2026 bargaining cycle
In 2026, collective wage agreements for nearly 10 million employees in Germany are set to expire. With upcoming negotiations in crisis-hit 'pilot' sectors such as chemicals and metalworking, the...
2 December 2025
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Bulgaria: government approves bill to encourage sector-level collective bargaining
On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...
2 December 2025
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EU: social partners in telecoms sign joint statement on AI
On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...
18 December 2025
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Germany: Erwin Hymer Group’s innovative and award-winning AI agreement
Fed up with negotiating separate agreements for each new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, the social partners at Erwin Hymer Group (8,900 employees) have instead secured a broad, overarching...
12 December 2025
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France: Orange submits gender equality agreement – including AI provisions – for union approval
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025