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Great Britain: TUC develops work program to coordinate affiliates’ industrial action against the government’s policy
Last September, at its annual congress the TUC committed itself to coordinate the resistance of its affiliates’ members’ action against the government cuts (see our dispatch No. 100656). This...
2 February 2011
Spain: government, employers and unions sign “grand social pact”
Exercise of shared responsibility. Bringing this pact into the tradition of social dialogue which, since the transition to democracy, has been “one of the elements that helped permanently...
2 February 2011
Spain: government and social partners sign ace plan on the employment of young people and long-term jobseekers
The plan provides for incentives to part-time recruitment for the ailing public, like young people under 30 and long-term jobseekers who have been searching for a job for over a year. This...
1 February 2011
Sweden: manufacturing unions united again before fall negotiations
On January 14, 2011, the trade unions informed that they agreed on a joint bargaining agenda, since the agreement negotiated by Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer expires on September 30, 2011 (see...
1 February 2011
Spain: agreement between the social partners to unfreeze the reform of collective bargaining
According to the document signed on the night of the 26th, the new system will help “rationalize and better articulate collective agreements” and encourage negotiations at company level. The...
31 January 2011
Italy: Fiom-CGIL mobilization on January 28th against Fiat’s maneuvers and to defend collective bargaining
“Today, hundreds of thousands of metalworkers, Fiom affiliates or not, are with us” said Maurizio Landini on Friday, January 28th in Milan, on a Piazza del Duomo swarming with people, to sum up...
30 January 2011
Belgium: restructuring at Bpost, the former public post
There will be no compulsory redundancies reassured Bpost when presenting its four-year restructuring program, which is going to require €200M in investment. The aim is to face the drop in mail...
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27 January 2011
Netherlands: FNV union wants to tackle abusive use of youth minimum wage in supermarkets
Dutch supermarkets currently employ 260,000 people, i.e. 40,000 more than in 2009, according to the FNV. This increase is artificial, due to the massive employment of young people working part...
27 January 2011
Germany: first report on equal opportunities between men and women at work recommends radical shift in policy
Very upsetting report. “I hope your contribution will bring new answers to the questions raised by the policy of gender equality. I am expecting recommendations that can be implemented” asked...
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27 January 2011
Ireland: unions denounce the European Commission’s interference with the review of sectoral wage agreements
Memorandum. This is one of the measures negotiated in December 2010 by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union to help Ireland. By accepting the €67.5 billion, the Irish...
27 January 2011
Finland: unions and the employers’ organization of technology industries work together to improve well-being at work
Develop methods to measure hardness and create tools to improve working conditions. In a general context of increasing retirement age and careers, well being at work has become a key issue. From...
27 January 2011
United States: unionization rate dips below 12%
No need to panic. One year earlier, the union membership rate was 12.3%. In 1983, when the BLS started comparing such data, 20.1% of employees belonged to a trade union. In the mid-1950s, 35%...
27 January 2011
Portugal: tense social atmosphere at the Portuguese post while liberalization is running late
Austerity. The management of the Portuguese post announced that it would apply, to the letter, the government’s recommendations regarding the planned pay cuts in the civil service within the...
26 January 2011
Germany: Deutsche Bahn staff get 5% increase and extended job security
The end of extremely long negotiations. Rail social partners aren’t hiding their joy. The agreement presented yesterday, enabled by the signature, last week, of the agreement in private regional...
26 January 2011
Netherlands: employers and unions agree on collective bargaining priorities for coming years
Culture of consensus, sense of anticipation, pragmatism… the polder system isn’t dead. The evidence? The Federation of Netherlands Unions (FNV), the Federation of Christian Unions (CNV) and the...
26 January 2011
Great Britain: British Airways cabin crew vote for another strike after 13 months of conflict
75% turnout. The airline’s 10,220 cabin crew were invited to answer the question: “Are you prepared to take part in strike action?”. With 75% turning out to vote, a great majority (78.5%) voted...
25 January 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
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