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The European Federation of metallurgists (EFM) who fears many job cuts in the event of a merger between the Dutch group Mittal and Arcelor, speaks in praise of the social policy of the European...

1 February 2006

AXA renews its agreement on the European work council

The management of the AXA group and five of the six French trade-union organizations (CFE-CGC, CFDT, CFTC, CGT, Unsa) renewed, last October 6, the agreement creating the European council of the...

31 January 2006

Romania: trade unions unhappy with the draft directive on services

In a few days, the European Parliament will give its opinion on the draft Bolkestein Directive. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will organize, on February 14 in Strasbourg, a huge...

30 January 2006

Italy : the national metalworkers contract is renewed

After thirteen months of negotiations and a strike of 62 hours, social partners of the Metal Industry sector reached an agreement on the new national contract. (Ref. 0679)

30 January 2006

Great Britain : press review- January 23rd to 27th 2006

Governmental plans to offshore Department for Work and Pensions' call-centers, and major overhaul for the Incapacity Benefits (IB) system, were very interesting issues for the British press this...

27 January 2006

Germany: press review -January 20th to 27th 2006

The German press has picked up the controversy on the family policy, which is dividing partys in the coalition government of Angela Merkel. (Ref. 0675)

27 January 2006

A European coordination group of trade-unions is created within the Delphi group

The European federation of metallurgists (EFM) set up, January 20, 2006, in Brussels, a European coordination group of trade unions within the U.S. automobile equipment supplier Delphi. (Ref. 0669)

26 January 2006

Czech Republic: average salary should continue to rise firmly

Given the current pace of the economic growth, the head of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions, Milan Stech, said that the average salary in the Czech Republic should reach 27000 CZK...

25 January 2006

Czech Republic : REACH legislation will cost Czech companies a lot of money

The new European Union legislation concerning registration, evaluation, approval and limitation of chemicals (REACH) should impose strict rules on Czech companies. (Ref. 0667)

25 January 2006

Hungary : trade union at Hungarian Suzuki Ltd.

to expectations, the first trade union was founded in the Suzuki factory of Esztergom, Hungary. The union’s name is: Independent Carmakers’ Union of Esztergom. (Ref. 0666) In December...

25 January 2006

Portugal: agreement on work conditions at Autoeuropa

In order to obtain the construction of new Volkswagen models, and thus to maintain employment, employees of the Portuguese company Autoeuropa, a subsidiary of the group, have negotiated an...

24 January 2006

EDF: seminar on European work councils

The EDF group and its European work councils, instituted in 2003, jointly organized a seminar, which took place between December 6 and 8 2005. It was devoted to the role of European work councils...

24 January 2006

Denmark: next spring should be tough for workers

The liberal-conservative government is due to make its proposals for a pensions reform next February. Just 18 months after the lowering of the retirement age from 67 to 65 years old, political...

24 January 2006

Great Britain: Department for Work could offshore some of its divisions in India

The civil servants’ main trade union (PCS) revealed to the press a confidential report from the Ministry for Work and Pensions on the possibility of relocating to India its call-center activities...

23 January 2006

Germany: IG-Metall aks for a 5% rise in wages

The branch of metallurgy and electronics, which employs some 3,4 million people in Germany, should be affected by an important wage conflict soon. Taking up the recommendations made by its...

20 January 2006

Germany: press review- January 14 to 19, 2006

The conference on joint management, which took place in Bitburg, has quite interested the press this week. It fed discussions that are currently agitating the country, involving this method of...

20 January 2006

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