Agreements

Early in 2013, Slovenia was on the brink of needing the help of the Troika – the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund – to support its ailing national finances. On 20 May 2013, the Slovenian government and public sector trade unions concluded an

An alliance between the Fiat Group [1] and the Chrysler Group [2] dates back to 2009. The two groups announced they had signed a preliminary agreement for the creation of a strategic global alliance on 20 January 2009. On 10 June 2009 they signed another agreement, which meant Fiat would acquire 20%

Mutual agreements between trade unions and employer groups in Hungary are fairly common. They have traditionally been agreed between the country’s largest employers’ confederation, the Confederation of Hungarian Employers and Industrialists (MGYOSZ [1]) and the largest union group, the National

More than 18.5% of legal EU immigrants in Cyprus are Bulgarians. In 2013, workers’ organisations launched the ‘Information Bridge – Bulgaria-Cyprus’ project, part of the Cooperation Framework Agreement concluded in February 2012 by the two trade union confederations, the Confederation of Independent

In recent years, issues of representativeness and workplace representation have come to the forefront of public debate on industrial relations. Particularly contentious has been the conclusion of ‘separate agreements’ signed by only some of the major trade union confederations or their affiliated

The 2013–2016 Haddington Road Agreement [1] sets out a range of wage reductions for up to 287,000 public service employees in return for a government commitment to make no compulsory redundancies. [1] http://www.per.gov.ie/haddington-road-agreement/

The National Mediation Office (MI [1]) in Sweden recently released its yearly report, revealing a trend towards collective agreements that set no fixed pay increase during the bargaining round of 2013. Although this trend has been seen in previous years, the increase in 2013 was significant. [1]

The German Federation of Chemicals Employers’ Associations (BAVC [1]) and the Mining, Chemicals and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE [2]) announced in a press release (in German, 121 KB PDF) [3] that they had concluded a new collective agreement on 5 February 2014. Only nine local and two sectoral