Labour relations

On 25 November, Deutsche Post DHL (DP DHL) the UNI Global (services sector) and the ITF (transport sector) international trade union federations renewed, for a further period of two years, the...

18 December 2019

Netherlands: CNV trade union confederation is considering moving to a 30-hour working week

Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond, the National Federation of Christian Trade Unions (CNV) is the country’s second largest trade union body with a support base of over 350,000 members and it...

18 December 2019

United States: 5 worker-activists denounce their employment terminations

In the space of just a few weeks tech giant Google has fired five of its staff, and not, according to the former employees in question, because of any breaches of internal regulations or any...

18 December 2019

UNI Global Union publishes a guide to address and tackle LGBTI+ discrimination

On 12 December, the Equal Opportunities committee for the international services union federation, UNI Global Union, published a guide designed to help its members get a better understanding and...

17 December 2019

EU: UNI Europa ICTS issues recommendations for social partners regarding AI deployment

On 12 December the information, communications, technology and services (ICTS) branch of the European skills and services trade union federation UNI Europa published a report dedicated to...

16 December 2019

EU: postal sector social partners pen joint declaration on training

On 6 December, the European social dialogue committee for the postal sector adopted two joint declarations. The first covers the revision of the postal services directive and the second regards...

13 December 2019

Spain: unions claim new Ryanair contracts break the law

Sign the new deal or lose your job. This was the offer Ryanair made to the 164 employees at its base in Girona, north of Barcelona. The airline company had announced the closure of four sites in...

13 December 2019

USMCA: definitive version of the United States–Mexico–Canada Free Trade Agreement implements a new resolution mechanism for trade union freedom disputes

Following weeks of bitter negotiations between Mexico and the United States, negotiators have finally succeeded in releasing the paralysis surrounding ratification of the future USMCA free trade...

12 December 2019

Italy: new themes starting to feature in collective bargaining

Employee involvement in work organization, competences and skills development, productivity bonuses in partial exchange for additional leave times, combatting sexual harassment, protecting the...

11 December 2019

Belgium: insurance sector secures an agreement for 2019-2020 that focuses on purchasing power and job security

On 03 December, Belgium’s insurance sector federation Assuralia, together with the CGSLB, CNE-CSC and SETCa FGTB, trade unions agreed on a 2019-2020 sector agreement that impacts 23,000 employees...

10 December 2019

Poland: in a bid to better comprehend online platform working, Polish and German trade unions share their own specific practices

On 18 October Poland’s OPZZ trade union together with the Ebert Foundation (close to Germany’s Social-Democrat party) hosted a seminar aimed at exchanging information over online workers and...

10 December 2019

Germany: Verdi’s 2019 innovation barometer flags need for greater co-determination on issue of artificial intelligence

The innovation barometer has been published annually since 2005 by the services trade union Verdi and the Technical University of Munich. The most recent edition focuses on the impact of...

9 December 2019

United States: the value clash in the tech industry, a breeding ground for a new form of social activism

Alexander Colvin, dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, dissects the so-called “value clash” experienced by young workers in the high-tech industry and their...

9 December 2019

France: mass mobilization in public protest at pension reforms

On 05 December France embarked on a period of instability, the length of which is hard to predict. Although it is the transport workers, lawyers, doctors, gas and electricity workers and public...

5 December 2019

Germany: 4.8% salary increase over 29 months for insurance sector employees

On 30 November and following tough negotiations, Germany’s insurance sector social partners finally signed a collective agreement covering the 170,000 employees in the sector’s various services...

4 December 2019

Austria: salary increases and a reorganization of salary categories in store for 130,000 workers in the Commerce sector

On 27 November, the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKO) Commerce sector together wit the services union Vida agreed on salary increases and a reorganization of salary categories for 130,000 workers...

4 December 2019

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