After nearly a year of marathon negotiations, NUTEAIW successfully negotiated an 8.5 percent wage increase for 950 union members. The collective agreement also includes other benefits, such as meal allowance for overtime, food aid in the canteen and medical benefits for workers and direct family members. June 3, 2019 On April 30, 2019, the National Union of Transport Equipment & Allied Industries Workers (NUTEAIW) signed the tenth collective agreement with Denso Malaysia, the largest automotive component manufacturer in Malaysia, which employs 1365 people. In Canada, employees of the Richmond store have been locked out for more than 8 months due to a labour dispute between their union The Teamsters and local management. The university has played a mediating role in the conflict, but no solution has yet been found. In Turkey, a plan to establish relations between local management and the Koop-Is union and to fully implement workers` rights to join a union and to conduct collective bargaining is still under discussion at the local and global levels. “This is an important agreement for uni Malaysia Labour Centre, UNI-Apro and UNI Score,” said Alke Boessiger, UNI Trade Manager. We want these best practices to apply to IKEA jobs around the world, so that workers work hard to participate in the overall success of the company. “This is an important moment because this is the tenth collective agreement over a thirty-year period. However, we observe a growing inequality over the same period, the share of labour in income per GDP remains low (35.2%). Therefore, corporate wealth should be shared with workers,” workers in Malaysia celebrate this week, after IKEA-Malaysia signed its first collective agreement with a union. IKANO Pte Ltd, which owns and operates IKEA subsidiaries in the Southeast Asian country, signed the contract with the workers` union on December 30. The agreement, valid for a period of three years, includes recognition of the union as the exclusive bargaining body, exemption for trade union activities, paternity leave, staff discount on IKEA goods, childcare leave and a personal accident and hospitalization plan.

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