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03/07/2009 Germany: IG-Metall survey reveals that employees demand more social equity

Three months to the federal legislative elections, the German metalworkers' unions, IG-Metall, presented, on July 3, 2009 in Berlin, the results of the largest study a trade union ever carried ...

03/07/2009 Italy: Saint-Gobain finished implementing national commitments in terms of restructuring for its Italian undertakings

Unions announced the end of the local implementation of the national agreement signed between Saint-Gobain and the sector's unions on restructuring in three Italian undertakings of the French multinational. The ...

03/07/2009 HP: EWC and unions against the social plan

While the management is preventing EWC members and employees from communicating, union representatives from different countries met, on June 30, under the leadership of the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and ...

03/07/2009 ArcelorMittal: coming conclusion of a transnational agreement on anticipating change

After five meetings, the special negotiating body (SNB) - composed of three representatives from the steel group's management and of three representatives from the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) - reached ...

02/07/2009 Germany: Minister of Employment and Social Affairs creates permanent minimum wage committee

The new committee composed of government representatives and social partners, will study in which sectors it will be possible and necessary to introduce minimum wage. It will work on the ...

02/07/2009 Spain: Ford lowers social plan in Valencia

The situation is unfreezing at Ford, where the local government, unions and the management made progress. The administration wants a lower social plan, with 294 job cuts instead of 1,100. ...

02/07/2009 Italy: Fiom-CGIL presents platform for the renewal of the economic part of the metal national collective agreement

The Fiom - the CGIL's steel federation - decided to present its platform for the renewal of the economic part of the sector's national collective agreement three months early, after ...

02/07/2009 Google: search engine follows HR to fight against "brain drain"

In the Internet economy, major user of highly-skilled workers, brain hunt is a daily sport, sometimes dangerous for the businesses affected. To limit the risks of loosing in creativity and ...

01/07/2009 Sweden: unions and Amnesty denounce violations of union rights worldwide

Amnesty and two trade unions, LO (Confederation of Swedish Trade Unions) and TCO (Central Organization of White Collars) published together, on June 10, 2009, an alarming report on violated union ...

01/07/2009 Italy: Fim and Uilm unions present requirements for the renewal of the steel CCN

The two steel unions, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil presented their platform for the renewal of the national collective agreement (CCN) in their sector. They demand a 6% wage increase, the extension ...