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Italy: CGIL proposal to change representation and union democracy rules
On January 15th, the CGIL’s steering committee approved the proposal entitled “Democracy and Representation.” Pointing out that “union freedom belongs to all workers and can’t become a variable...
19 January 2011
Morocco: EU-Morocco partnership struggles to bear fruit on social and labor rights
Initiating synergy between the Advanced Status and Euromed. This first meeting between the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) Moroccan network of NGOs and the equal Parliamentary committee for the...
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17 January 2011
Electrolux: international framework agreement signed with Swedish metalworkers’ union, IF Metall
A framework agreement that recognizes the role unions play across the world. “This is highly satisfactory and we hope other businesses are going to follow this example” declared Stefan Löfven...
17 January 2011
Germany: new “historical” sectoral collective agreement in local rail traffic
End of wage dumping. With this sectoral agreement, adopted after months of particularly tricky negotiations (see our dispatch No. 100725), the new rail union, EVG (Eisenbahn – und...
17 January 2011
Portugal: employers recommend temporary flexibility on labor laws
Temporary reform in times of a crisis. The CIP’s new management, which has recently took up its post, recommends a temporary reform of the Labor Code to revive the country’s economy. The point...
17 January 2011
Italy: 54% of Fiat Mirafiori employees approve the separate agreement on the plant’s future
The outcome of the referendum on the separate agreement for the reorganization of Fiat’s historical plant in Turin, Mirafiori, signed on December 23rd (see our dispatch No. 110001) by the...
17 January 2011
United States: CEOs of auto Big 3 want to link workers’ remuneration with the company’s performances
Big bosses in the American automotive industry are dreaming of a new form of remuneration, based on performance, for their plants’ unionized workers. Several mentioned the possibility to...
17 January 2011
Great Britain: Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) organises very active campaign to defeat the privatisation of Royal Mail
In parliament, it is using its sponsored MPs to lay down key amendments to highlight the effect privatisation will have in worsening standards of service for businesses and citizens as well as...
14 January 2011
Italy: the future of territorial social bargaining at the heart of the CGIL’s 2nd National Assembly of local structures
Social negotiation, the key to development. The union points out that, in 2010, territorial social bargaining was often the only way to combat the “new inequalities” and meet the needs of workers...
13 January 2011
Germany: unions declare war on abusive appeal to temporary work and are preparing the final attack to impose minimum wage by May 2011
War on precarious employment and for minimum wage. “We declare war on abusive appeal to interim, precarious employment and the development of low-wage sectors. It is high time we organized a new...
13 January 2011
Spain: Nissan Barcelona employs support productivity program negotiated to stay in the run to the award of new pick-up trucks
70% of Nissan Barcelona’s 2,900 employees, divided into two sites, that of Zona Franca (2,700 employees) and that of Montcada (200) voted in favor of the cost reduction measures proposed by the...
13 January 2011
Great Britain: the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and Jobcentre Plus join forces to help people back into work
Public-private partnership. REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation) chief executive Kevin Green and Darra Singh, chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, signed, on January 11th, a memorandum of...
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13 January 2011
Denmark: DA employers’ organization evaluates health in its 2010 labor market report
Social costs of diseases. DA counted that this increase in social beneficiaries because of illness – from 280,000 to 445,000 in 25 years – is costing society DKK 33 billion (over €4.4bn) in State...
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13 January 2011
Spain: government and unions seek difficult agreement on pensions
Talks are stuck because unions are opposed to the government’s proposal to increase the professional career until 67. However, it seems that the negotiators are determined, on both sides, to look...
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12 January 2011
Austria: new “black book” of infringements to labor law sparks off controversy
In its 2010 “black book” of labor law infringements, the Chamber of Labor of Upper Austria shows that, in 2010 alone, its labor law experts gave nearly 235,000 legal advice interviews. The AK...
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12 January 2011
France: employers and union define a very busy social schedule for 2011
Following several bilateral meetings between the Medef employers’ organization and the five union federations (CGT, CFDT, CGT-FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC), and after an umpteenth 4-hour meeting at the...
11 January 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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
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