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Germany: 6.3 percent increase for public workers to influence other sectoral negotiations
Who can beat 6.3 percent? It took 40 successive hours of negotiations for Frank Bsirske, leader of the Verdi union, the representatives of civil service employers, the Federal Minister of the...
2 April 2012
International: overview of global union alliances
“United stand.” A direct consequence of globalization, union action transcends borders in the form of international union alliances. The last to date, the Ikea Global Union Alliance...
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2 April 2012
Germany: unions’ globalization strategy helped by Bob King, leader of the American auto workers’ union, joining Opel’s board
of the American United Auto Workers (UAW), will become a full member of the supervisory board of Adam Opel GmbH. Sources tell Planet Labor that both General Motors and the German IG-Metall union...
2 April 2012
Germany: 10,000 employees fired by Schlecker causes political and ideological turmoil beyond the trade industry
10,000 compulsory redundancies. Receiver Arndt Geiwitz, who took in his hands the fate of Schlecker, which announced that it was closing 2,200 stores after the judicial settlement, postponed, in...
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30 March 2012
United States: German personalities campaign against T-Mobile USA, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, accused of anti-union practices
On Wednesday, March 28, a group of German academics, lawyers, and union and political representatives published, in the New York Times, an open letter to “T-Mobile USA and other US subsidiaries of...
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30 March 2012
Spain: government maintains reforms, social unrest grows
Demonstrations took place in several towns across the country with the catchphrase: “Quieren acabar con todo” – they want to end it all. The El Pais daily says 170,000 marched through Madrid...
30 March 2012
Great Britain: government wants to introduce regional pay rates across the public sector
Prior to the Budget of 21 March 2012, the government had asked the four Pay Review Bodies for NHS workers, schoolteachers, operational staff in public sector prisons and civil servants to examine...
29 March 2012
Austria: union membership stable after 20 years down
Stabilization is almost established. The Austrian Trade Union Confederation says a ‘turn’ was made in 2011. After seeing its size shrink for 20 years, the ÖGB only experienced a 0.4 percent...
28 March 2012
Germany: the GdF airline security union will not pay damages to the airlines
The right to strike reinforced by the decree. On April 6, 2009,air traffic controllers at the Stuttgart control tower stopped working for 6 hours to support their colleagues – ground traffic...
28 March 2012
United States: NLRB launches information campaign on employees’ rights at work
The information campaign is going to address rights regarding pay, working time, safety at work…. These rights, covered by the National Labor Relations Act, give employees the right to take part...
28 March 2012
Air France/KLM: new framework agreement supervising the restructuring of outstations in European airports
International outstations in European airports are subject to restructurings because of technological change and the search for synergies between KLM and Air France. To manage these...
27 March 2012
Austria: tourism unions call for a 20 percent increase in sectoral minimum wage
“Tourism is a key sector in the Austrian economy which employers keep presenting as a success story. The number of overnight stays and customers keeps breaking records. In spite of all this...
27 March 2012
United States: UAW started gathering signatures to organize the Volkswagen plant
On Friday, March 23, Reuters announced that the United Auto Workers union (UAW) started, earlier this month, to ask employees from Volkswagen’s American plant in Chattanooga (Tennessee) to sign a...
27 March 2012
Opel: the carmaker’s European employee representatives united against possible future site closures
Standing united. Wolfgang Nettelstroth, spokesman for the IG-Metall metalworkers’ union in North Rhine-Westphalia, told Planet Labor that all of Opel’s European employee representatives agreed on...
26 March 2012
Great Britain: mobilization against the public sector pension reforms continues but cannot seem to find its gravity center
It was from amongst these unions that the 28 March date was identified as the next date for coordinated strike action. In the run up to the intended national strike, these unions carried out...
26 March 2012
Italy: mobilization against the reform of Article 18 is starting
Today, March 23, the 10th anniversary of the large demonstration the CGIL organized against the reform of Article 18, forcing the then Berlusconi administration to withdraw the bill, the Council...
23 March 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