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Italy: groundbreaking company agreements bank on consensus
Flexibility and top social respect. The chemical industry is still the leader in terms of long “collaborative” industrial relations. Federchimica leader Giorgio Squinzi (performing his sixth...
7 September 2010
Luxembourg: social tension around severity measures
The OGBL, Luxembourg’s independent union confederation, the LCGB, the federation of Luxembourg’s Christian unions, the ALEBA, the union of banking employees, the FNCTTFEL, representing public...
7 September 2010
Portugal: unions open talks on 2011 wage increases after a “frozen” year because of the crisis
Calculated claims. The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP, close to the communist party, PCP), proposed a 3.5% wage increase in 2011, with a €25 monthly increase for the lowest...
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7 September 2010
Italy: Poste Italiane could be the first company to try employee profit-sharing
Board participation remains the most controversial part for the introduction of an Italian profit-sharing system (see our dispatches No. 091144 and 100557), with an employers’ organization...
6 September 2010
International: interview of Jerry Fernandez, American president of the transatlantic union federation, Workers Uniting
at Britain, and the United Steelworkers Union (USW), United States, decided to join forces within Workers Uniting to be more active against multinationals and better face the multiple relocation...
6 September 2010
Great Britain: fewer employers support pension auto-enrolment
Context. The “Pensions Act 2008” introduced measures to boost private savings, notably via a reform of corporate pension funds. As of 2012, employers will systematically have to enroll eligible...
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6 September 2010
Romania: tough minimum wage negotiations
No consensus on minimum wage. Despite a new meeting earlier this week, the trade unions and representatives from the Romanian Finance Ministry haven’t reached an agreements on the minimum wage...
6 September 2010
PPR: group takes European commitment on the quality of life at work and the prevention of work-related stress
Philippe Decressac, HR senior vice-president of the group, “is happy with this endorsement” and pointed out that “more than psycho-social risks, the point was the quality of life at work and the...
6 September 2010
United States: Human Rights Watch bashes European firms’ anti-union behavior in the US
Most corporations Human Rights Watch is pointing the finger at have endorsed the industrial relations guidelines of the OECD. They endorse the core labor standards of the ILO and the United...
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3 September 2010
Italy: Confindustria and Federmeccanica are willing to amend the metal CCN so Fiat will remain in the employers’ organization
Suspense in the Italian industry before Federmeccanica’s management meets on September 7th and announces what the metal employers’ organization chose to keep Fiat from leaving and allow for the...
3 September 2010
United States: American unions gather to prepare the November elections
A new partnership. For the AFL CIO and SEIU, these political actions aren’t new. The two organizations have the support of the Center for Responsive Politics, specialized in lobbying, and the...
2 September 2010
Austria: unions demand drastic overtime limit
Talks on flexible working time and the management of overtime in Austria have been going on for over a year (see our dispatches No. 091007 and 100291) and have already greatly tainted the social...
2 September 2010
Netherlands: still no coalition three months after the general election
Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party (PPV) is now setting the political rules in the Netherlands: it seems impossible to govern without it, because of its election results, but equally hard to govern with...
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2 September 2010
International: metal unions seek to improve strategy in Latin America
The meeting held on August 18 and 19 brought together representatives from the ASMIRA and UOM (Argentina), CNTM-FS and CMN-CUT (Brazil), and SITIMM (Mexico). Manuel Campos, the IG-Metall...
1 September 2010
Germany: IG-Metall demands 6% wage increase in the steel industry
Union says it’s a problem of equity. Oliver Buckhard, leader of the IG-Metall in North-Rhine Westphalia, explained his union’s requirements by reminding that steel employees gave a lot during the...
1 September 2010
Germany: the conditions for a sectoral agreement on minimum wage in regional rail transport are taking shape
After the second bargaining round for collective agreements at the Deutsche Bahn and in the rail industry, it is still impossible to say foretell the amount of wage increases for the 165,000...
30 July 2010
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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...
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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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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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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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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