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Germany: IG-Metall supports UAW’s recruitment campaign in the American plants of German carmakers
A campaign to keep the UAW from hemorrhaging. “We’ll be very, very aggressive and willing to spend a lot of money to defend workers’ rights to organize” warned the UAW’s new leader, Bob King...
11 January 2011
Germany: one in three employees in the metal industry to receive a pay raise two months early
Wide movement of early wage increases. Bosch, Audi, Volkswagen, Sachsen…, several large German businesses already announced, this summer, that they wanted to give the 2.7% wage increase...
10 January 2011
Poland: ENEA S.A. unions object to EDF taking control of the company
“We maintain our negative opinion regarding the sale of participation to a company outside ENEA S.A. We believe this sale is stupid and detrimental to the company” ENEA’s eight unions* declared...
10 January 2011
Italy: with the Pomigliano company agreement, Fiat ends the first act of its strategy to question the Italian industrial relations system
After the signature of the separate agreement for the Mirafiori agreement on December 23rd (see our dispatch No. 110001), Fiat obtained, on December 29th, the signature of the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil...
5 January 2011
Morocco: legal system more transparent and modern, yet corruption continues
This accusation portal is the latest initiative developed by the Moroccan employers’ organization to fight against the plague of corruption. Mustapha Moulay, in charge of the CGEM’s public...
4 January 2011
Luxembourg: two recovery agreements
Index. Employers, who terminated the agreement signed with unions on this matter, finally gave up the issue of the social index. Thus, in keeping with the bipartite agreement negotiated with the...
4 January 2011
Great Britain: annual working hours are gaining ground
The basic principle of annual hours is that, instead of defining working time on the basis of the standard working week, for example 37 or 39 hours, working hours are distributed out over the...
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3 January 2011
Sweden: IF Metall signs highly disputed agreement on apprenticeship and occupational integration
An agreement accused of wage dumping. Pointing to the fact that Sweden has the highest youth unemployment rate in the Nordic countries, IF Metall signed an agreement aiming to facilitate young...
3 January 2011
Italy: Fiat signs new derogatory agreement for Mirafiori plant
The “newco” which will take over Mirafiori’s bodywork plant will be, as anticipated (see our dispatch No. 100895) subject to a new collective contract derogating from the national legislative and...
3 January 2011
Poland: 5.24% minimum wage increase on January 1, 2011
This 5.24% minimum wage increase should affect a few thousand workers. These are mostly low-skilled or disabled workers. PLN 1,386 gross (about €347) amount to approximately PLN 1,000 after tax...
3 January 2011
Sweden: new sectoral agreement in communications provides for 2.9% wage increase
A central agreement that fits with market reality. Several unions, SEKO (workers’ unions in, notably, the energy, postal, telecommunications, traffic, road and transportation sectors), ST (union...
23 December 2010
Estonia: unions demand minimum wage increase and social budgets
Too much flexibility, not enough security. The Estonian Trade Union Confederation (EAKL) has recently been drawing attention to several problems. In October, it published a study named...
23 December 2010
Portugal: minimum wage will increase to EUR500 in 2011, but gradually
Gradual increase. Minimum wage in Portugal is going to increase by €10 a month on January 1, 2011, for a total of €485 a month (+5.3% with inflation at 2.2%). Then, it will be increased again in...
22 December 2010
Germany: retail trade prepares for the introduction of minimum wage in the first 2011 quarter
Around €8 an hour. Minimum wage in retail trade? No one was expecting this, even though the social partners have been talking about it since 2008. Josef Sanktjohanser, leader of HDE, confirmed...
22 December 2010
Spain: Catalonian Juan Rosell elected as the new President of the CEOE employers’ organization
Catalonian entrepreneur Juan Rosell was elected with 444 votes in favor (i.e. 62.5% of voters) as opposed to 247 for Santiago Herrero, the other candidate for the Presidency of the CEOE employers’...
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21 December 2010
Great Britain: growing “cut price action”
More and more “cut price action.” Of the 4,336 ballots organised in the last five years for industrial action, in 87% of cases workers have answered the strike question in the affirmative, and the...
20 December 2010
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20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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14 October 2025
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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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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
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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...
28 October 2025