18/09/2012 Sweden: Unionen and Handels union step in to defend IKEA staff in Turkey and sign an international framework agreement
14/09/2012 Austria: metalworkers' unions accept partial questioning of 40 years of unitary collective bargaining
13/09/2012 Corporate practices: new agreement on "demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures" for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
13/09/2012 Germany: a majority of Länder is about to support a bill introducing universal minimum wage
12/09/2012 EU: report on the strategies of energy companies and their social and environmental impact
11/09/2012 EU: Commission launches consultation on the introduction of an optional framework for transnational company negotiations
10/09/2012 Italy: with national union division in the background, IndustriAll Europe mobilizes against Fiat Iveco's restructuring
10/09/2012 Spain: agreement to outsource supplementary pension for Banco Santander staff hired before 1980