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Europe: scheduled union mobilizations
September 15th, Belgium. All Belgian unions will march for pensions on September 15th. Talks on the pension reform started in early 2010 and were paused when the government collapsed after the...
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14 September 2010
Brazil: 155,000 metalworkers in the Sao Paulo region get an amazing 9% wage increase
During a meeting organized on Saturday, September 4th, Sao Paulo metalworkers unanimously approved the 9% wage increase signed by the Central Workers’ Union (CUT, Central Unica dos Trabalhadores)...
14 September 2010
Latvia: the Free Trade Union Confederation goes around key political forces to sign agreements before the upcoming election
Focus on taxes in the agreement with the nationalists. In the memorandum of understanding signed between LBAS and VL-TB/LNNK (made up of the two nationalist parties, “Visu Latvijai” and “Tēvzemei...
13 September 2010
Italy: Federmeccanica terminates the last unitary metal CCN, raising the possibility of the marginalization of the Fiom-CGIL
On Tuesday, September 7th, Federmeccanica’s management empowered its leader, Pierluigi Ceccardi, to immediately terminate, “in a purely technical fashion and as a precaution, to better protect...
9 September 2010
Great Britain: unions divided about the answer to the government’s budget cuts
Thus, not only is the agenda of the TUC congress this September full of opposing motions but the invitations to prime minister, David Cameron, and business secretary, Vince Cable, to address the...
9 September 2010
Germany: growing pressure for wage increase
Much pressure to increase wages. “Workers should also enjoy growth” declared, this week, Minister for Employment and Social Affairs Ursula von der Leyen who, while refraining from intervening...
9 September 2010
China: overview of the strike at Honda, a turn in employees’ claims
The story. On may 17, 2010, over 100 workers from the Nanhai Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Company, a factory fully owned by Honda Motors Co., located in the city of Foshan, Guangdong, went on...
8 September 2010
Denmark: “social delegates” help reduce sick leaves
Tried by about twenty public and private businesses in the city of Randers (Central Jutland) since August 2007, to encourage more social responsibility and diversity, “social delegates” are in...
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8 September 2010
Germany: interim is hot this fall
Union offensive on temporary work. “It’s time we sent a clear sign against unbalance in our country and for more social justice. We already announced it in May (…). Unfortunately, we can see...
7 September 2010
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
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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