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Great Britain: two-day national strike in postal sector
Mail will be totally blocked for several days. The CWU said that it made an offer to Royal Mail’s management, which the latter rejected without even looking into it. The company said the strike...
16 October 2009
Portugal: two large employers’ associations merge to be more representative
Already contemplated in the past but never carried out, the merger between the AEP and AIP answers the need for organizational modernization and the “current national and international economic...
16 October 2009
GDF Suez: EWC members elect a Belgian member as their secretary
On October 13, during the first meeting of GDF Suez’s EWC, recently created (see our dispatch No. 090489), the structure’s staff representatives elected a Belgian representative as secretary. His...
15 October 2009
United States: agreement reached between Ford and the UAW
Wage freeze and
no-strike provision.
The management of the carmaker and the management of the United Auto Workers
(UAW) have reached a new tentative agreement. Three key measures were approved:
15 October 2009
Belgium: new banking sectoral agreement
The La CNE, SETca, LBC and CGSLB for unions and the Fedelfin for employers signed, on October 9, the 2009-10 banking sectoral agreement. Negotiations were held in May and September as part of the...
14 October 2009
Italy: unions and employers in the temporary work sector agree on a single sectoral collective agreement
Single CCN. On October 9, Alleanza Lavoro signed with Assolavoro (Confindustria) and the Nidil CGIL, Alai Cisl and Uil CPO unions an agreement “restoring conventional unity” in the temporary work...
14 October 2009
Great Britain: Royal Mail employees vote yes to national strike
A strike to protest against job and service cuts. Two years after the last national postmen strike, a similar scenario is taking shape in the UK. “This is a huge vote of no confidence in Royal...
13 October 2009
Sweden: unions want equal pay between men and women to be a priority for the coming wage negotiations
Better compliance with
anti-discrimination laws. Despite an internal study showing a relative improvement in women’s situation,
the federation of private employees’ unions, Unionen, thinks that...
13 October 2009
Lithuania: government and social partners about to sign a far-flung national agreement
Drastic cost-cutting program. Initially, the text was mostly a plan to financially save the State and the social security from 2009 to 2012. it provided for layoffs and new wage cuts (8-10% in...
13 October 2009
Portugal: first mandatory arbitration unfreezes negotiations in paper industry
Regulatory tool. The Mandatory Arbitration Court is called when all forms of negotiation failed. In this case, the decision rendered by the Arbitration Court, made up of professionals from the...
13 October 2009
Italy: the general strike organized by the Fiom didn’t block negotiations for the renewal of metalworkers’ CCN
In a speech given during the demonstration organized in Milan on October 9, concluding the strike aimed at “defending the national collective agreement and democracy and against layoffs and...
12 October 2009
Germany: Ver.di union threatens to strike if negotiations with the Deutsche Post fail
Bonus in exchange for working time increase. For the management, there is no alternative to reducing personnel costs to face structural problems (increase in electronic exchanges) and economic...
8 October 2009
Spain: employers and union organizations reopen dialog to unfreeze collective bargaining
The technical negotiators of the CEOE and Cepyme employers’ confederations and of the Workers’ Commission’s and UGT union federations created a joint workgroup (two representatives per union and...
8 October 2009
Morocco: interview of Jamal Belahrach, chairman of the Committee on Employment and Social Relations at the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises
The goal is to build dialog with unions and no longer tripartite dialog with the government, which we used to do until now. We will discuss the problems faced by businesses and the labor code in...
8 October 2009
Italy: independent unions specify the profile of the future “Italian confederation of basic unions”
“The union we need.” This was the slogan of the national assembly convened by the main independent unions which signed the “basic pact”: RdB, SdL Intercategoriale, Snater, Cub Informazione, Flaica...
7 October 2009
Sweden: LO confederation refuses to sign the collective agreement on temporary work if the wage clause isn’t rediscussed
A new mode of wage calculation endorsed by all. After the negotiations started on march 24, 2009, the LO union and the Almega employers’ federation – powerful member of the Svenst Naringsliv...
7 October 2009
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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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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
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France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
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