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Germany: collective bargaining starts in the textile and clothing industry in western Germany
A few hours to the official start of the negotiations in the textile and clothing industry in western Germany, on October 17 at 2 pm, the IG-Metall metalworkers' union repeated its claims for the...
17 October 2012
Italy: Wind, the telephone company, signs an agreement with unions on a new strategic plan to improve competitiveness and maintain employment
network management and handling, affecting about 1,600 workers, Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA agreed, in January, after the Ministry for Economic Development stepped in, to suspend this decision and...
17 October 2012
Companies: study on the failure to apply international framework agreements and possible solutions from the Indian factories (Pune) of Volkswagen, Daimler and Bosch
the think-tank of the IG-Metall German union, published in September a case study entitled “Strengthening trade union networks through international framework agreements.” From a case...
17 October 2012
Canada: Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and Canadian Auto Workers merge
These two big unions recently announced a merger and should soon represent over 300,000 employees. The new organization, which has yet to settle on a name, will be the largest private sector...
17 October 2012
Italy: Sandvik’s agreement in Rovereto combines flexibility and innovative family policy
In Rovereto, on August 31, the management of Sandvik, the Swedish precision engineering giant, signed with the regional representatives of the Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil unions and its Unitary...
16 October 2012
Norway: agreement ends 9-day strike in energy industry
Tough negotiations. The agreement was reached after a strike movement with a high turnout in the companies concerned and the threat of another wave of work stoppages, which “is quite rare in...
15 October 2012
Corporate practices: how Indra, the IT specialist is promoting female leadership at the highest level in the countries where it is present
120 female employees from Brazil, Philippines, Spain and Venezuela are currently taking part in “Women and leadership”. They share a common feature. All of them are executives or pre- executives...
15 October 2012
Great Britain: report on pay deals in the British auto industry
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Bentley Motors, Honda, Ford and BMW - 5 pay negotiations, 5 different situations. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and...
15 October 2012
Great Britain: strikes are spreading in transportation and logistics
Very few companies now distribute their own goods and products through their own fleet of vehicles. Instead, these services are sub-contracted out to dedicated providers after a process of...
11 October 2012
United States: Walmart faces multiple strikes and the threat of a strike on Black Friday
“Workers from stores throughout the Dallas-area (…) from stores in Miami, the DC-area, Sacramento, Southern California and the Bay-area are (…) walking off the job” announced, on October 10...
11 October 2012
Sweden: new manufacturing employers’ organization
On September 19, employers in the manufacturing industry announced the creation of a new employers' organization, "industriarbetsgivarna" (meaning manufacturing employers), presenting itself as an...
10 October 2012
United States: Bombardier aircraft manufacturer on strike
Since October 8, over 800 employees have been on strike at Bombardier, the American subsidiary of the Canadian aircraft manufacturer, in Wichita, Kansas. This strike is the result of failed pay...
10 October 2012
Austria: 190,000 heating engineers, assembly operators and mechatronics engineers get an average 3.2 percent increase
The social partners in the "Metallgewerbe" industry, which represents 43,000 SMEs and nearly 190,000 employees (heating engineers, assembly operators, mechatronics engineers...) signed a wage...
10 October 2012
EU: how is employee participation doing at European level?
Udo Rehfelt. I think it would be useful to remind that, as this special issue points out, these three forms of employee participation have a common ideational and historical link – the European...
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8 October 2012
Austria: metal employers offer a 2.8 percent wage increase along with a working time increase
“Employers are not taking us seriously. We can’t bargain like this. They offer a wage increase if we make compromises on other points. It’s like they’re giving us €100 and taking €50” Rainer...
8 October 2012
Spain: unions reject new prerogatives of the National Consultation Committee on Collective Agreements
Consultation Committee becomes decision-making body. The government has given the National Consultation Committee on Collective Agreements (CCNCC) a new role in a Royal Decree published on...
8 October 2012
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026