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Greece: employers ask for pay cuts in the negotiations for the trade and hotel sectors
Trade sector. Employers in trade and small and medium-size businesses asked for pay cuts around 10-11 percent during the first meeting between the representatives of National Confederation of...
23 April 2012
Denmark: workers ratify the agreements renewing national collective agreements in the private sector with record abstention rates
‘No’ votes fueled by fear of social dumping. 92 percent of the members of the Blik-og Rørarbejderforbundet construction union voted no, while other construction unions rejected the agreement with...
23 April 2012
United States: overtime pay claims are going back up
At the lowest, during the recession, the number of lawsuits filed was up 32 percent versus 2008 in the US, according to USA Today. The millions of job cuts after the crisis broke out didn’t...
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23 April 2012
Spain: unions call for a day of mobilization on April 29 to defend social rights and public services
The government’s projects includes reducing free health care, co-funding of medicine for pensioners who used to be exempt, more students in the classroom and more teaching hours for teachers.
23 April 2012
PSA/GM Alliance: the two carmakers’ union representatives form an ‘Alliance’ to monitor their managements’ Alliance
In the statement released after the meeting, the EMF points out, “thousands of jobs, not only in Europe, but also on the global level, are at stake. It is also clear that the “alliance” will...
20 April 2012
Finland: Nokia Siemens unions fight two battles to manage restructurings
In Finland, where NSN employed 7,200 people at the end of 2011, the cuts should affect 700 people in Espoo, 150 in Oulu and 350 in Tempere. The unions concerned – Metalliliitto, Pro, UIM and TEK...
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20 April 2012
Italy: short margin for ‘yes’ vote in the consultation on the agreement renewing the banking collective agreement
Strong ‘no.’ The rejection of the agreement renewing the banking CCN signed in January (see our dispatch No. 120046) started within the left wing of the Fisac-CGIL, led by former leader Domenico...
19 April 2012
Spain: draft agreement on the new collective agreement in call centers
Here are the key aspects of the text:
19 April 2012
Argentina: unions support the nationalization of the YPF oil company
A historical claim for Argentinean unions. “YPF is becoming Argentinean again” said Hugo Moyano, general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor (Confederación General del Trabajo, CGT)...
19 April 2012
Italy: employers and unions demonstrate in Rome today to demand measures to stop the wave of economic suicides
Peak of economic suicides among jobseekers. Indeed, Latium was the region where the number of suicides soared in 2010: +27.3 percent as opposed to +3 percent in Lombardy, which still remains the...
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18 April 2012
Norway: new agreement in manufacturing
Influential agreement. Fellesforbundet is the most important private sector union in the LO confederation with about 151,000 members. This is why the Norsk Industri employers’ organization is...
18 April 2012
Sweden: after executives, the trade federation strikes last-minute deal for employees
The agreement will run between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013.
17 April 2012
Enel: EWC agreement renewed
Transnationality. The agreement signed on December 16 by Enel’s management, the EWC and the EPSU and EMCEF union organizations contains the definition given in Directive 2009/38 which provides...
17 April 2012
Portugal: shipyard staff gives summer holidays up to face production peak
Flexibility. The Workers’ Committee (CT) of the Viana do Castelo shipyard (ENVC) signed the company agreement maintaining production for August 2012. Usually, the shipyards are closed for two...
16 April 2012
Italy: unitary CGIL, Cisl and Uil mobilization asking for solutions to the “tragic” consequences of the pension reform
Poste Italiane (which “expelled” nearly 5,000 seniors through the “family incentive,” i.e. the father or mother leaving their job with the promise that their child would get it), Alitalia (almost...
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13 April 2012
Great Britain: Unite tries new campaign style at Mayr-Melnhof Packaging and Tulip
Unite members at MMP were sacked and locked out in mid-February after undertaking a number of one-day strikes over the company’s method of selection for the redundancies and the terms being...
12 April 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
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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