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Great Britain: seven companies in the construction industry to leave sectoral collective agreement to be free to establish their own working conditions
The seven contracting companies are Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES), NG Bailey Building Services, Crown House Technologies, Gratte Brothers, SPIE Matthew Hall, Shepherd Engineering...
5 December 2011
Germany: unions and employers call on government to drop its plan to introduce a premium for stay at home mothers
Ideological battle. When is a mother considered a ‘good mother’? Is a mother who puts her child in daycare to go to work a bad mother, a “Rabenmutter” (unnatural mother) or, on the contrary, a...
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2 December 2011
Spain: new president asks the social partners to negotiate proposals for a draft labor market reform by January 6
The future President, who will take up office on December 21, gave the social partners the roadmap for the coming labor market reform. He asked them to present a negotiated text by January 6...
2 December 2011
Romania: the list of new sectors still has not been defined
Legal void. Six months after the new Romanian Social Code came into force in July, the sectors planned in the text still haven’t been defined, to the great displeasure of union and employers’...
2 December 2011
United States: draft labor deal between Boeing and the Machinists union paves the way for out-of-court settlement of the legal dispute over the South Carolina plant
End of the legal dispute. Last April, the Machinists union turned to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which pressed charges against Boeing management for violating the right to strike...
2 December 2011
Great Britain: two million civil servants strike against pension reform
High turnout. British unions won a victory, claiming that two million civil servants went on strike on November 30 – government says 1.2. According to the Department for Education, 62% of public...
1 December 2011
Germany: 2.7 percent wage increase at RWE and beginning of talks on job cuts at EON
2.7 percent increase at RWE. The agreement signed on November 29 by the IG BCE (chemistry) and Verdi (services) unions with RWE, second energy producer in Germany, still needs to be approved...
1 December 2011
United States: American Airlines files for bankruptcy to cut wage costs
True, American Airlines isn’t doing well. The group has lost over $11 billion since 2001. The last financial report, published in October, points to $162M lost. And forecasts for the end of...
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30 November 2011
Italy: negotiations between Fiat and unions for the group’s new collective agreement start with an incident with the Fiom-CGIL union
Negotiations for the new national collective agreement of Fiat after it left Confindustria (see our dispatch No. 110720) is off to a rough start for the Fiom. Its leader, Maurizio Landini, left...
30 November 2011
Austria: 3.6% increase for 520,000 trade employees
After 4 meetings and 16 hours negotiating, the social partners in Austrian trade reached an agreement on wages. If they had failed, the GPA-dip union threatened to strike, as the start of the...
30 November 2011
International: ICEM international union federation holds last Conference before the creation of the big industry federation
Gathered for three days in the Argentinean capital, the 800 delegates representing about 200 affiliated union organizations elected Senzeni Zokwana (NUM, South Africa) and Manfred Warda as...
29 November 2011
Switzerland: towards minimum wage at Confederation level?
Right and amount. “In Geneva, people were afraid to vote for this right without knowing its definite amount” explained Giangiorgio Gargantini, representative of the SIT, the interprofessional...
28 November 2011
Netherlands: split rumors within the FNV union organization
Apparently, a major rebellion is taking shape among the Netherlands’ key union federation, the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation (FNV, of a protestant persuasion). Its three largest members...
28 November 2011
Austria: 4.15% wage increase in the temporary sector
4.15% and new minimum wages. 65,000 Austrian agency workers are going to receive a 4.15% wage increase on January 1, 2012, for one year. Regular bonuses will also be increased in the same...
28 November 2011
Romania: employers and unions sign social agreement to engage in social dialogue irrespective of the public powers
organization, and the five trade union confederations lay down the foundation for social dialogue since they couldn’t be heard by the government. Thus, at the end of October, they signed a...
28 November 2011
Portugal: unions demand the resumption of dialogue with the government after successful general strike
General strike. The CGTP (close to the Communist Party) and the UGT (moderate) organized, on Thursday, November 24, a 24-hour general strike to reject the austerity measures provided for in the...
25 November 2011
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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