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PSA Peugeot Citroën: amendment to the worldwide framework agreement on social responsibility
This amendment was negotiated with the representatives of the international and European metalworkers’ federations (IMF and EMF) in the name of the 90 trade unions present in the 31 countries...
6 May 2010
Air France/KLM: renewal of the agreement on the EWC
The protocol for the group European works council of Air France KLM, renegotiated in 2006, already contained, anticipatory changes introduced by the new EWC directive. The transnational decision...
4 May 2010
Russia: new federation of manufacturing unions
The FNPR, a sectoral and social partnership union. Heir to soviet unionism, with its 27 million members – i.e. a great majority of the 46% of union members in the country – the Federation of...
4 May 2010
Air France/KLM: framework agreement to supervise the European-wide reorganization of sales agencies in airports
With the prospect of changing the role of sales agencies in airports (ATO), which will follow different modalities and rhythms, Air France KLM’s European group committee (CGE) and management think...
3 May 2010
Germany: 3rd interim employers’ federation (iGZ) signed minimum wage agreement with the German Confederation of Trade Unions
For the second year in a row, the introduction of universal minimum wage was one of the central claims of the German Confederation of Trade Unions during Labor Day demonstrations. However, since...
3 May 2010
United States: a woman at the head of the powerful SEIU union
A growing trade union. Until now, Mary Kay Henry, 52, was in charge of the organization’s health unit. She got promoted when Andrew Stern, charismatic and controversial leader of SEIU, who...
3 May 2010
Caterpillar: unions lay the foundations for a global union network
Tense dialog with the management. 70 American, European and Japanese Caterpillar representatives met on April 28-29 under the aegis of the IMF in Echirolles, Izere, France. The aim of this meeting...
30 April 2010
Great Britain: unions set the creation of green jobs as their priority but forget the fight on working conditions
The key policy demand from the union movement upon the three major political parties in the current general election has been job creation. In the current context of unemployment rising to 2.5m...
30 April 2010
Norway: unions want to debate the issue of support to employees caring for elderly parents during the ongoing negotiations
Worrying prospects. For several years now, all studies on the issue converge. A study carried out by the Institute for Applied International Studies of Oslo (FAFO) in 2007 showed that a little...
29 April 2010
Sweden: after 11 days of strike, the paper workers’ union gets raises up to 3.5% for low wages
Tough negotiating conditions. The strike was tough and had an important number of followers. On April 5th, the union sent a slowdown notice (refusal to work overtime) for the entire paper...
28 April 2010
Denmark: 3F and TIB prepare merger for 2011
In 2004 already, when 3F (Fagligt Fælles Forbund) was born from the merger between the General Union of Danish Workers (SiD) and the Women Workers’ Union (KAD), the negotiations included the TIB...
28 April 2010
Corporate Practices: Investor AB to promote women’s careers at all levels, including boards
Pro-active policy to recruit women. “This is a key issue. Something must be done to improve, in the end, the number of female leaders” declared Investor AB’s VP, Börje Ekholm, in 2006. This...
27 April 2010
Germany: the IG-Metall starts reforming its structures and covets green industries
New decline in members and income. In 2009, the crisis didn’t spare the size and finances of the largest union in Germany. While, at the beginning of last year, the IG-Metall proudly announced...
27 April 2010
Italy: 13th Congress of the CGIL’s trade, tourism and services federation, Filcams, on the theme of a “bearable future”
“A bearable future in the service sector” was the title of the 13th congress of the Filcams-CGIL organized in Riccione on April 19-21. The 722 representatives elected the 187 members of the new...
26 April 2010
Portugal: nearly twenty sectoral strikes over the next three days
Transportation. Drivers at the CP – Portuguese railways – are the first to down tools for three days. The train drivers union (SMAQ) called for a partial strike (5-10 am) affecting about on in...
26 April 2010
Great Britain: unions support the Labour with little positive enthusiasm and more out of fear that the Tories will come back
The need to do so to protect their members’ interests is clearly paramount after the deepest recession with its detrimental effect on wages and jobs, the huge national debt to bailout the banks...
26 April 2010
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31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
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
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
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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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