Labour relations

Officials at the United Automobile Workers, the American trade union, have finally reached an agreement with the leadership of General Motors. However the 200 union leaders who met on Thursday 17...

18 October 2019

Finland: SAK, the country’s main union confederation, puts forward proposals addressing technological developments

In spring 2019, Finland’s government announced as part of its program that it would be changing labor legislation in order to better protect workers. Legislative drafts are formulated within...

18 October 2019

UNI Global Union launches a global campaign for the right to disconnect from work

The right to disconnect is the “new fight for the eight-hour workday,” declared Christy Hoffman General Secretary of the international union federation, UNI Global Union, during the launch of a...

17 October 2019

Umicore: global framework agreement renewed on sustainable development

On 17 October the Belgian multinational materials technology and recycling group renewed, for the third time, its global framework agreement on sustainable development that it signed with the...

17 October 2019

ARLA Foods: global framework agreement signed with the IUF combatting sexual harassment at work

On 07 October, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) together with the Scandinavian multinational cooperative...

15 October 2019

Portugal : soon to be approved UGT affiliated bank & insurance sector union seeks to also advocate for workers in third party service provision

The SBSI union (Banking trade union for the south and the islands) has established a new trade union body by way of merging UGT affiliated bodies representing Banks in the Center of the country...

15 October 2019

Ireland : Financial Services Union calls for legislation on the right to disconnect

The Financial Services Union called on 10 October – on World Mental Health Day – for a law that would grant workers the right to disconnect. The union for workers in the financial...

14 October 2019

Italy : collective agreement in power sector renewed with several innovations

Social partners in Italy’s electric power sector signed a draft deal to renew their collective agreement on 9 October. The agreement applies to some 50,000 workers, including employees of Enel...

11 October 2019

Germany : agreement at Postbank allows workers to choose between more free time and more money

The trade union Verdi and the negotiators for German retail bank Postbank announced, on the morning of Thursday 10 October, that they have reached a compromise on the renewal of the company...

11 October 2019

Yet again trade unions mobilize the French Corporate Duty of Vigilance legislation on human rights to challenge a multinational corporation

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and an international trade union alliance have combined forces to call on the European...

10 October 2019

Germany: faced with industry sector upheaval, the IG Metall body seeks to strengthen co-management as well as the collective agreement system

During the IG Metall national congress held in Nuremberg between 06 and 12 October, Jörg Hofmann, the head of Germany’s biggest 2.3 million member strong trade union, was voted in for a second...

10 October 2019

Spain: a first ICT sector trade union created for Catalonia

‘One can't be all things to all people'. The sentiment of being inadequately represented by major trade union federations that tend to favour the most influential sectors within their...

9 October 2019

Germany : amid problems renewing the industrial cleaning sector agreement, the IG BAU union accuses companies of profiting from the situation

With the industrial cleaning sector’s social partners unable to successfully conclude collective agreement renewal negotiations that commenced at the start of August and that will affect 650,000...

9 October 2019

Argentina : record salary increase for the banking sector

In the throes of economic recession, and amid widespread uncertainty, Argentina’s banking sector has just signed a ‘Super-agreement’, or ‘Record-agreement’ that updates and revalues salaries...

9 October 2019

Germany : German Trade Union Confederation presents an atlas of collective agreement withdrawals

While Germany’s trade unions may have, after many years of painful restructuring and reform, succeeded in stemming a membership slide, the same cannot be said for companies that continue to...

8 October 2019

United States : negotiations stall between General Motors and the UAW trade union

46,000 United Auto Workers (UAW) members working at General Motors (GM) have entered their fourth week of strike action as both the trade union and GM management teams remain firmly camped in...

8 October 2019

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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...

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