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Italy: Rome Court sentences Fiat to reinstate 145 Fiom-CGIL members in Pomigliano plant
Since none of its members were reinstated, the Fiom sued Fabbrica Italia Pomigliano (Fip), Fiat's newco managing the plant in Campania, for discrimination. The Court gave the union satisfaction...
25 June 2012
Italy: General signs groundbreaking agreement on employment protection
The text is made up of four chapters. The first lays down the ground principle: Italian jobs will be maintained and the group commits not to appeal to compulsory redundancies if jobs need to be...
25 June 2012
Spain: FITEQA-CCOO general secretary talks about the company agreement at Adolfo Dominguez cutting pay to save jobs
Joaquim González Muntadas. I wanted to show the extremely difficult situation businesses, unions and employees are in. It is true that it isn’t common for unions to point to the value of...
25 June 2012
Great Britain: success for London bus drivers
After a number of last minute developments, the one-day strike by bus drivers across London did go ahead on Friday 22 June. These developments included money being made available to meet the bus...
25 June 2012
Corporate practices: ThyssenKrupp steel cuts working time to hire 1,000 apprentices and have younger manpower
Chain restructurings. “Up to 2006, we were mostly concerned with one thing: how can we cut jobs?” explains Veit Echterhoff, in charge of training policy at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG. And for...
25 June 2012
Netherlands: coming negotiations on the “quality” of employees relations at Ikea
Ikea’s Dutch employees will get a 2 percent wage increase. Ikea was founded in Sweden but the headquarters are in Delft, Netherlands. The increase will come into force on October 1, 2012, at the...
25 June 2012
International: new global manufacturing union federation
Over 800 delegates representing metalworkers, textile workers and chemical workers from 140 countries took part in this event, prepared by the managing structures of the three founding unions for...
21 June 2012
Austria: Women’s Ministry launches program to promote women in businesses
Small-steps policy in a labor world where women are underrepresented. Like most European countries, Austria is no exception to the growing debates and claims about women’s role in businesses. In...
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21 June 2012
Italy: unions and government still divided over the issue of “left-out” workers
Government and unions have been fighting over the number of “left-out” workers for months. Besides, last week, the National Social Welfare Institution (INPS) released figures saying that 390,000...
21 June 2012
Luxembourg: OGBL adopts action plan for September
Minimum wage. During this meeting, OGBL leader Jean-Claude Reding denounced what he considers a bank debt crises rather than a State debt crisis. The union sounded the alarm about the impact...
21 June 2012
Germany: temporary workers to receive “recruitment bonuses” in the chemical industry in November 2012
Gap closing between permanent and temporary pay. Four weeks after the agreement signed by the IG-Metall (see our dispatch No. 120331), the IG BCE chemistry union signed, with the Federal Union...
20 June 2012
Netherlands: Ton Heerts, new FNV general secretary
The FNV is changing its name and its leader but is still close to the Labor Party (PVDA), as we can see with the appointment of Ton Heerts, former head of the Labor Parliament Group (2006-10), to...
20 June 2012
Great Britain: 20,000 london bus drivers on strike on 22 June to secure an Olympic Games bonus
Employees voted for strike action across the 21 bus operators by an average of 94% on an average 38% turnout after their employers refused to agree to a bonus for the extra workload caused by the...
19 June 2012
Deutsche Bahn: new EWC agreement with special system to add Britain’s Arriva
On March 21, the Deutsche Bahn's social partners signed an agreement on the procedures for informing and consulting the group's employees. The text defines the modalities for the restructuring and...
19 June 2012
United States: German Verdi representative takes part in first negotiations between T-Mobile and the CWA
Talks at a standstill. Negotiations for a collective agreement started just after the CWA entered the unit. However, “it is clear that T-Mobile is stalling so as not to reach a contract” said...
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19 June 2012
United States: UAW research director joins Chrysler board
When Ford and General Motors announced that they wanted to review the payment of pensions to their former employees (see our dispatch No. 120391), the United Auto Workers (UAW) decided to appoint...
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18 June 2012
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025