Please find below the highlights of the June issue of the Collective Bargaining newsletter with the most important developments at European and member state level over the past month. Full version of the Collective Bargaining newsletter: Issue 6/June 2020 Archives database of Collective Bargaining... Find out more

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) has launched a new Covid Social Impact platform to monitor the social and employment consequences of the coronavirus (aka Covid-19) in European member states. The main intention is to offer a structured-way of following... Find out more

Covid-19 has unmasked the fractures in our labour markets. The garment district in Leicester is no exception. As the UK is easing lockdown measures, Leicester is the first British city to face a local lockdown, after a rise in coronavirus cases. The spike has been associated with the city's textile... Find out more

Slaughterhouses and meat processing plants have become major hot spots of coronavirus outbreaks. Workers in the meat industry around the globe are reporting widespread illnesses among their colleagues and communities. The present health crisis has unmasked how such plants are the weakest link in the... Find out more

Morocco recently reported a record rise in coronavirus cases with a daily spike of over 550 reported cases, data from the WHO shows. Moroccan local authorities identified two Spanish-owned strawberry and berry processing plants as outbreak hotspots. The plants belong to Frigodar and Natberry, two... Find out more

On 24th June, Bayer AG announced that it would pay from « 8.8 billion to 9.6 billion dollars » in order to solve 75% of the current Roundup litigation in US courts « involving approximately 125,000 filed and unfiled claims overall ». With its shareholders unhappy about the financial situation... Find out more

Open (non-thematic) issue of Transfer, 4-2021 The Editors and Editorial Committee of Transfer invite submissions for the 2021 non-thematic ('Open') issue of Transfer of articles whose subject matter falls within the aims and scope of Transfer (industrial relations, social policy, industrial... Find out more

The new yearly training work programme started in April under unexpected circumstances. All planned face-to-face courses had to be cancelled. But cancelling training from the ETUI Education agenda was out of question. Thanks to the experience gathered in the previous years and to the resilience of... Find out more

As Covid-19 cases continue to grow among coal miners in the Silesia Province in southern Poland, there are increasing worries that a similar situation might be developing in the neighboring Moravian-Silesian region, in the North-East of the Czechia. As of 16th June, Czechia had a little more than 10... Find out more

As lockdown restrictions in Europe are slowly but surely eased, the return of workers to their activities is done in different ways depending on the industry and the country. In the case of Belgium, resumption of work activities started on the 4th May. Nevertheless, some industries never really... Find out more