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On 3 March, German service sector union Verdi published its “guidelines for employing artificial intelligence”. Presented as a document “for debate” on the topic of AI technology, the text...

9 March 2020

United Kingdom: delivery firm Hermes sets aside support fund for gig workers amid coronavirus outbreak

German delivery firm Hermes announced on 6 March that it would set aside a £1 million (€1.15m) support fund for its 15,000 independent delivery workers in the UK, in the event that they...

9 March 2020

Italy: with some 10,000 banking sector jobs set to be cut, the impact of digitalisation is the subject of debate

Three of Italy’s largest banks – UniCredit, UBI Banca and Banca Popolare di Milano – have in recent weeks announced thousands of job cuts as part of their respective strategic plans. Some 10,000...

6 March 2020

United States: employees of Beneficial bank to join union

California-based bank Beneficial, which was co-founded by billionaire Tom Steyer, a philanthropist who recently dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 US Presidential...

6 March 2020

Mexico: businesses backing staff that take part in 09 March women’s strike

Mexico’s ‘national women’s strike’ that is set for 09 March was launched by the feminist group Brujas del mar via Facebook back in September 2019. The strike action has...

4 March 2020

Bosch to provide artificial intelligence training to 20,000 employees

During the Bosch Connected World 2020 conference, held between 19 and 20 February in Berlin, Germany’s leading automobile equipment manufacturer and its chief executive Volkmar Denner announced...

2 March 2020

Italy: fraught negotiations to renew collective agreements in several key sectors

Italy’s engineering and metals sector trade unions are beginning to get impatient, after their collective agreement, which covers some 1.5 million workers, expired on 31 December 2019. The...

2 March 2020

Finland: new round of collective agreements sees removal of provisions of ‘competitiveness pact’ introduced by previous government

After a chaotic start to the year that saw the announcement of new strikes following those in December 2019, which threatened to completely paralyse the country, as well as trade unions calling...

2 March 2020

Italy: telecoms trade unions attack Iliad’s business methods

The source of this spat lies in a survey commissioned by Italy’s fourth largest telecoms operator, and carried out by the I-Com think tank. The report stated, ‘Iliad’s Italian...

27 February 2020

Italy: LVMH owned Italian jeweler Bulgari secures a landmark company agreement for its Valenza site that addresses LGBT rights and sustainable development

In February a landmark company agreement was signed for the production facility in the premium jewellery firm Bulgari that is located in Valenza, Piedmont (Italy’s goldsmith center). The agreement...

26 February 2020

Spain: “We don’t want to go back to the 1980s or 1990s, but to move towards flexibility and adaptation at companies that is negotiated and not imposed on employees in an opaque way,” says CCOO general secretary Unai Sordo

Unai Sordo, general secretary of the Workers' Commissions (CCOO), the largest trade union in Spain, with 977,000 members and 97,000 union delegates across companies, set out what he hopes can be...

24 February 2020

Germany: collective agreements in 2019 marked by rise of ‘options models’ for working time

The Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) at the Hans Böckler trade union foundation, which manages the organisation’s collective agreement database, has recently published its summary...

20 February 2020

Germany: metallurgy sector companies are struggling with complex working time options

The Cologne Institute for Economic Research (IW) that is financed by the Gesamtmetall employers’ confederation has surveyed almost 800 companies to determine how well new labor options have been...

19 February 2020

Telenor: renews the global agreement with UNI Global Unio

On 14 February, Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor ASA signed a new global agreement with UNI Global Union that runs for three years and introduces several new provisions pertaining to...

18 February 2020

Italy: Fastweb telecommunications company lowers working time while keeping salaries unchanged

According to a company agreement signed on 06 February, the number of hours in the working week for many of Fastweb’s employees will fall from 40 to 38. This is a landmark move for a sector facing...

17 February 2020

Spain: USO trade body shuns Solvay policy that recognizes competences acquired as part of staff representative mandates

In what appears to be a real culture clash, the USO trade body is criticizing the Charter agreed between management at the chemical company and its European Works Council, over recognition for...

17 February 2020

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17 September 2026

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

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...

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UK: duty for employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union postponed to 1 January 2027

The news. On 25 September, the British government published its response to a consultation launched on 23 October on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union. The...

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