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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
Finland: after several months of tough negotiations, sectoral agreements are reached on the basis of the framework agreement the social partners signed in October at national level
Employers accepted to negotiate in the end and, after a few bumps when the talks were suspended, a deal was stricken on October 13. In addition to political and union pressure, another element...
24 November 2011
United States: retail employees denounce sacrificing Thanksgiving for Black Friday
employees have had to get up in the middle of the night between Thanksgiving and ‘Black Friday’ to open stores before dawn for the most important shopping day of the year, opening the...
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24 November 2011
Italy: Fiat terminates all collective agreements to be free to negotiate a single agreement for the group
With the termination notified yesterday, the Italian carmaker is seeking to “harmonize company and territorial conventional rules which followed one another and make them consistent and compatible...
22 November 2011
Germany: new steel collective agreement provides for a 3.8% increase and the recruitment of apprentices
3.8% increase. “It was a ‘tough start’ but we got an excellent result” rejoiced Oliver Burkhard, leader of the IG-Metall in North Rhine-Westphalia. Reminding the uncertain character of the...
22 November 2011
Italy: Luxottica’s company agreement tests “family job sharing”
“Bank of hours” for parents. Throughout this agreement, employees planning on having a baby may put unused leaves, overtime and flexibility hours they usually turn into remuneration on a “bank of...
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22 November 2011
Germany: GDL train driver ends conflict with four private rail companies
Compromise. After 10 months of bargaining, massive warning strikes and a mediation procedure which lasted for 11 weeks, run by Georg Milbradt, former Prime Minister of Saxony, the GDL and four...
21 November 2011
Corporate practices: how the Rudus construction materials manufacturer managed to significantly cut the number of industrial accidents on its production sites
uction company which employs about 1,300 people. It produces concrete, coated macadam and asphalt and operates in Finland, the Baltic countries and Russia. Bought, in 1999, by Irish multinational...
21 November 2011
Great Britain: unions press ahead with the national strike on 30 November
In early November, the David Cameron administration made two concessions on its draft public pension reform to soften unions: the first increasing the accrual rate – the percentage of salary...
21 November 2011
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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