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Portugal: workers needed in health, renewable energy and new technologies
Expanding sectors. Health, social and renewable energies have the wind in their sails in Portugal. These sectors are maintaining their recruitment level, or even creating jobs, in a labor market...
14 September 2010
Europe: scheduled union mobilizations
September 15th, Belgium. All Belgian unions will march for pensions on September 15th. Talks on the pension reform started in early 2010 and were paused when the government collapsed after the...
14 September 2010
Brazil: 155,000 metalworkers in the Sao Paulo region get an amazing 9% wage increase
During a meeting organized on Saturday, September 4th, Sao Paulo metalworkers unanimously approved the 9% wage increase signed by the Central Workers’ Union (CUT, Central Unica dos Trabalhadores)...
14 September 2010
Germany: strong resurgence of regional laws linking public contracts and the respect of local collective agreements
Get out of the dilemma brought by the decree. After the ECJ’s ruling (see our dispatch No. 080268), ten Lander abrogated their law on public contracts or gave up the idea of adopting one. ...
13 September 2010
Netherlands: talks about the introduction of a women’s quota for senior positions
Minister for Social Affairs Piet Hein Donner launched, at the end of August, a general call to change the way women are perceived at work. The taskforce (Taskforce Deeltijd Plus) created in 2007...
13 September 2010
Latvia: the Free Trade Union Confederation goes around key political forces to sign agreements before the upcoming election
Focus on taxes in the agreement with the nationalists. In the memorandum of understanding signed between LBAS and VL-TB/LNNK (made up of the two nationalist parties, “Visu Latvijai” and “Tēvzemei...
13 September 2010
Great Britain: +56% complaints to labor courts in 2009-10
Reasons for litigation. When taking into account collective action – +90% compared with 2008-09 –, the total number of complaints got to 392,800 (as opposed to 266,543 in 2008-09). One in four...
13 September 2010
Italy: Federmeccanica terminates the last unitary metal CCN, raising the possibility of the marginalization of the Fiom-CGIL
On Tuesday, September 7th, Federmeccanica’s management empowered its leader, Pierluigi Ceccardi, to immediately terminate, “in a purely technical fashion and as a precaution, to better protect...
9 September 2010
Great Britain: unions divided about the answer to the government’s budget cuts
Thus, not only is the agenda of the TUC congress this September full of opposing motions but the invitations to prime minister, David Cameron, and business secretary, Vince Cable, to address the...
9 September 2010
Germany: growing pressure for wage increase
Much pressure to increase wages. “Workers should also enjoy growth” declared, this week, Minister for Employment and Social Affairs Ursula von der Leyen who, while refraining from intervening...
9 September 2010
EU: towards a European framework on the anticipation of change and the management of restructurings
In a letter dated July 26th, answering to the letter of May 25th (see our dispatch No. 100499) sent by the general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), John Monks, calling...
8 September 2010
China: overview of the strike at Honda, a turn in employees’ claims
The story. On may 17, 2010, over 100 workers from the Nanhai Honda Auto Parts Manufacturing Company, a factory fully owned by Honda Motors Co., located in the city of Foshan, Guangdong, went on...
8 September 2010
Denmark: “social delegates” help reduce sick leaves
Tried by about twenty public and private businesses in the city of Randers (Central Jutland) since August 2007, to encourage more social responsibility and diversity, “social delegates” are in...
8 September 2010
EU: staff representatives to be involved with the new European financial monitoring
Authorities. This is a victory for Uni Finance, the union representing banking and finance employees, which has been fighting since the beginning of the economic crisis to increase employee’s...
8 September 2010
Germany: interim is hot this fall
Union offensive on temporary work. “It’s time we sent a clear sign against unbalance in our country and for more social justice. We already announced it in May (…). Unfortunately, we can see...
7 September 2010
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Catherine Chavanier (CDC Habitat): “Social dialogue on AI facilitates its deployment”
In February, CDC Habitat (10,500 employees) signed a two-year framework agreement governing social dialogue on AI. Catherine Chavanier, HR Director of the subsidiary of CDC (Caisse des dépôts et...
20 March 2026
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Greece: hospitality sector signs first collective agreement aligned with National Social Pact
The hospitality sector (125,000 employees), one of Greece’s largest industries after retail, signed a new two-year collective agreement on 17 March. The text, effective from 1 April 2026...
19 March 2026
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
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France: Club Med includes “multiculturalism” in its professional equality agreement
In December 2025, Club Med and the CFTC, Unsa, and FO trade unions signed an agreement on professional equality and working conditions. It introduces measures addressing AI, pay transparency, and...
23 March 2026
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Germany: crisis and transformation wage agreement in the chemical sector
Following a two-day marathon negotiation in Bad Breisig (Western Germany), the social partners of the German chemical and pharmaceutical industries—the IG BCE trade union and the BAVC employers'...
27 March 2026
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France: bioMérieux’s new disability agreement pivots towards mental health
The news. On 6 January 2026, bioMérieux—an in vitro diagnostics specialist employing 4,400 people in France—signed a new four-year agreement “relating to the employment...
4 March 2026