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Germany: marked decline in the number of strikers in 2009
More and more conflicts at company level. According to the WSI, the marked decline in the number of strikers in 2009 mostly comes from the fact that some key sectors, such as metal, already signed...
26 April 2010
Netherlands: after the success of their nine-week strike, cleaning agents went from the status of vulnerable workers to visible and organized workers
1,100 agents on strike and discernible chaos. This was the toughest social conflict in the Netherlands since 1933 – garbage piled up in train stations, at the Schiphol airport and at some...
26 April 2010
Denmark: workers to ratify the agreements renewing national collective agreements in the private sector
Containing all the agreements renewing the national collective agreements of the private sector signed this spring, as well as the provisions defined in these agreements for sectors that couldn’t...
22 April 2010
Germany: the collective agreement signed in chemistry provides for a wage freeze over 11 months
stry, the IG BCE union and the BAVC (Bundesarbeitgeberverband Chemie) employers’ organization reached an agreement yesterday, April 21. The collective agreement, negotiated for 11 months...
22 April 2010
Areva: amendment to the European agreement on equal opportunities establishes social dialog as a pillar for its implementation
Basically, the agreement perpetuates the ODEO approach, born from the European project launched in 2008 by the signatories of the agreement to spread it, and partly funded by European budget lines...
22 April 2010
Italy: internal crack after the 7th Congress of the Fisac, the CGIL’s banking and insurance federation
“Values in the heart, the future in the eyes.” This slogan set the tone for the 7th congress of the CGIL’s banking and insurance federation, Fisac, organized on April 14-16 in Rimini.
21 April 2010
Norway: competitiveness and equal treatment at the center of wage negotiations in 2010
The Norwegian system is based on an old and long-established tradition of tripartite cooperation between the State and the social partners. Actually, they all agree on the quality of their...
21 April 2010
Italy: 5th national congress of the Flai-CGIL, the food federation, focuses on union unity
“The Flai-CGIL to defend and free rights” was the title of the 5th national congress of the Flai-CGIL. The federation, which negotiates 17 national collective agreements (affecting nearly 2...
20 April 2010
Great Britain: the “winter of discontent” or the very apropos use of collective memory
The most recent outing of this phenomenon has been in the immediate run up to the general election in May 2010 when strikes and proposed strikes took place at British Airways, in the civil service...
20 April 2010
Netherlands: lowest strike level since 1985
This is a historic fall, even more noticeable since social relations are tense because of the economic crisis that started at the end of 2008. A sign that unions, which represent a fourth of...
20 April 2010
Germany: new postal services’ union (GNBZ) can’t bargain for collective agreements, Federal Labor Court says
Victory for Verdi. This decree puts an end to a long legal procedure Ver.di started after the creating, in 2007, of a rival union, the new postal services’ union (GNBZ). According to Ver.di, GNBZ...
20 April 2010
Italy: 25th national Fiom-CGIL Congress ends with division
“Democracy based on labor.” This was the title, based on article 1 of the Italian constitution, of the 25th Congress of the Fiom, organized in Montesilvano (Pescara), on April 14-16. It was the...
19 April 2010
Italy: 4th SLC-CGIL national congress characterized by job cuts at Telecom Italia and the Italian Post
The 433 delegates representing the union’s 97,000 members elected their new management (with 20% of young and 39% of women), which re-elected the outgoing general secretary, Emilio Miceli.
16 April 2010
Deutsche Telekom: American and German telecom unions accuse T-Mobile USA of “massively overawing” employees trying to unionize
Climate of fear or malicious campaign? “Throughout the world, Deutsche Telekom respects workers’ rights and is a loyal interlocutor for all elected employee representation structures” declared...
16 April 2010
Italy: 3rd national congress of the CGIL’s “atypical” workers’ federation, Nidil
The 3rd national congress of Nidil (acronym for Nuove Indentità di Lavoro – New Labor Identities), organized, on April 8-9 in Perugia, ended with the re-election of the outgoing general secretary...
15 April 2010
Thales: interview with Bart Samyn, EMF deputy general secretary, on Thales’ European agreement on the annual discussion
lworkers’ Federation (EMF) signed, on April 14, a European framework agreement on “Transparent annual Activity Discussion for mutual Listening and developing professional...
15 April 2010
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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