Labour relations

On 08 November, Lidl Suisse, together with the trade unions Syna and the Swiss Society of Commerce Employees (Société suisse des employés de commerce), signed a new collective convention for the...

14 November 2019

Italy: collective agreement renewal for the water and oil services sector

On 07 November 2019 social partners in Italy’s water and oil sector signed a draft agreement to renew the sector’s collective agreement that expired on 31 December 2018 and that covers some 48,000...

12 November 2019

Austria: metals sector social partners agree on pay rise of between 2.6% and 2.8%

On Friday 8th November, pay negotiations across the six sub-sectors of Austria’s metals industry came to a conclusion, after an agreement was reached in the foundry sector. The six agreements...

12 November 2019

Great Britain: with five weeks to go before the general election the TUC disparages the Tory government’s economic record

On 07 November the TUC published an analysis showing that since the previous 2017 election, called for by the then Tory PM Theresa May, the UK economy has fallen into the ‘relegation zone’. Using...

7 November 2019

Sweden: trade unions ready to negotiate fresh collective agreements in 2020

Sweden’s social partners are readying themselves to negotiate new collective agreements for most of the sectors at the start of 2020. Caution hangs in the air because even if the government is...

7 November 2019

Chile: no weakening of social contestation in the face of a sclerotic political class

Since 18 October 2019, Chile has been living through its biggest social conflict since the period of dictatorship ended in 1990. The entire political class that is now at its most unpopular is...

6 November 2019

Finland: a disorderly start to negotiations on new sector collective agreements

Finland’s business leaders and trade unions have commenced negotiations for new collective agreements that will replace those set to expire in the months ahead. As such this will be the second...

6 November 2019

Germany: IG Metall and YouTubers announce campaign against YouTube to improve working conditions

The German trade union IG Metall, which has partnered with the YouTubers Union, announced in August of this year that Google Deutschland had agreed to open talks, set for 22 October, over the...

4 November 2019

United States: automobile union UAW strikes multi-year wage agreement with Ford

Negotiators for the UAW (United Automobile Workers) and industry giant Ford have reached a deal for a new four-year salary agreement, four days after a deal was struck by the union and General...

4 November 2019

United States: UAW president accused of misappropriation of union funds

Gary Jones, president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, has found himself in the firing line of federal legal authorities investigating potential corruption, following recent...

4 November 2019

Italy : Milanese social partners join forces to foster greater worker participation in company decision-making

Assolombarda, the Milanese branch of the employers’ body Confindustria, together with the local sections of the Cgil, Cisl, and Uil unions have signed a territorial agreement that seeks to foster...

30 October 2019

Germany : Trumpf launches a training project where digital ‘multipliers’ support SMEs to meet the challenges of digital transformation

With funding from the Baden-Wurtemberg Economic Ministry, and created by German company Trumpf, one of the global leaders in industrial laser manufacturing, F4DIA (Fit for digitized world of work)...

24 October 2019

Bolloré Group: agreement signed defining arrangements for workers representative involvement after the group changes to Societas Europaea status

In May 2019, Bolloré, a French transportation, communications and logistics conglomerate announced its intention to shift its headquarters and transform its status to a Societas Europaea (SE), a...

23 October 2019

Germany: chemical sector jobs impacted by transformation in the auto industry

A study published on 16 October, and jointly carried out by the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Science Research and the IG BCE chemicals and energy trade union friendly Work and Environment...

22 October 2019

Belgium: talent mobility initiative launched in finance sector

On 30 September, financial sector employer federation Febelfin and trade unions ACV Puls, GNC-CNE, BBTK/SETCa and ACLVB/CGSLB signed a new protocol on ‘talent mobility’, as a follow-on from the...

21 October 2019

Germany: agreement in the industrial cleaning sector

On 18 October, social partners in Germany’s industrial cleaning sector announced that they had reached an agreement to renew the framework collective agreement which regulates, among other...

21 October 2019

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