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Petrobras: global framework agreement signed with ICEM uploaded
In this agreement, which aims to apply to Petrobras entities abroad and which the group is going to promote among its subcontractors, the 3rd largest energy company in the world commits to respect...
Belgium: joint union front calls general strike on January 30
Dialogue.  They denounce the lack of social dialogue that comes with the adoption and implementation of the measures.  Shortly after the government’s agreement in early December providing for...
Italy: banking social partners renew national collective agreement
The “best possible outcome for union organizations without a second of strike.”  This is how Lando Maria Sileoni, leader of FABI, the majority union in the sector, qualified this agreement. ...
Spain: agreement on the new collective agreement in the construction sector
The representatives of the national construction confederation (CNC) and of the MCA-UGT and FECOMA-CCOO union organizations signed, on January 20, the 2012-2016 agreement.  The end of the debates...
Norway: after the January 18 strike, key unions are rejecting the transposition of the European directive on temporary work
Political strike to reject the transposition of the Directive.  Norway, along with EU countries, Iceland and Liechtenstein, is part of the European Economic Area and, as such, benefits from the...
23 January 2012
Great Britain: the reform of appeal against unfair layoff won’t be retroactive
Who is affected?  BIS Minister says the aim of this reform is to boost recruitment.  Therefore, it is neither ‘appropriate’ nor ‘necessary’ to apply this change to employees already on the job. ...
Germany: in 2011, worked and saved working hours and the work week increased
More work, more overtime, more working people.  The number of hours worked in Germany increased in 2011.  over the 3rd 2011 quarter, 11,776 million hours were worked, i.e. 1.3 percent more than...
20 January 2012
Poland: union organizations suspend participation in the Tripartite Committee
Joint initiative.  It was the first time the leaders of the three union confederations (Piotr Duda of NSZZ Solidarnosc, Tadeusz Chwalka of the Union Forum (FZZ) and Jan Guz of OPZZ) organized a...
Great Britain: future merger between PCS and Unite is taking shape
The unions are not yet in formal merger talks Serwotka made clear in a recent interview with the Financial Times newspaper that he wanted to keep deepening the ‘ever closer developing...
Compass: agreement with the IUF international union federation on union freedom at Eurest Algeria
Complaint.  Seized by workers at Eurest, a company located in southern Algeria responsible for catering in several multinationals in the region, the IUF filed a complaint, on December 14, 2009...
Germany: Verdi union calls for a 6 percent wage increase and the improvement of working conditions in banks
End of lean times: after a marginal 1.6 percent wage increase over a year reached in June 2010 (see our dispatch No.  100466), Verdi’s wage committee announced, on January 18, that it would ask...
18 January 2012
United States: AFL-CIO union launches ad campaign to restore its image
This short spot, which cost $1.5 million, shows men, women, people from minorities, nurses, policemen, firefighters… speaking highly of the value of work.  “Work doesn’t separate; it’s what binds...
Italy: food-processing unions present unitary platform for the renewal of the national collective agreement
The platform will be sent to workers for approval and should be permanently approved by the three organizations’ unitary assembly on February 23-24.  here are the key elements. 
EU: European Commission launches public consultation on restructuring and the anticipation of change
“This Green Paper aims to identify successful practices and policies in the field of restructuring and adaptation to change in order to promote employment, growth and competitiveness as part of...
Great Britain: businesses commit to anonymous CVs
Pact.  Testo, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Marks&Spencer, Nestlé… over 100 of Britain’s biggest employers in the banking, legal, food or energy industries, employing more than two million people in...
Inditex: the international framework agreement the group signed was used to defend union freedom at a Turkish supplier
The envoy of the CCOO Spanish union used Inditex’s framework agreement (AMI with the Spanish initials) to defend labor rights.  Isidor Boix, Fiteqa-CCOO representative, went on the premises to...
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