This week, around 200 union leaders, worker representatives and experts gather in Copenhagen for UNI Europa’s ICTS sector conference, representing more than three million workers in telecommunications, IT, digital services, games and business services.
At the launch event of our #SaveOurPost campaign in Brussels today, together with consumer groups and EU lawmakers like @leilachaibi.bsky.social, Johan Danielsson and @liandersson.bsky.social, we called on @ec.europa.eu to safeguard postal jobs and make this essential public service future-proof.
Die Post ist ein unterschätztes öffentliches Gut, europaweit steht sie unter Druck. Die EU hat jetzt die Chance auf eine Reform.
Foto de una furgoneta de Correos.
"El servicio postal debe seguir siendo accesible para todos a precios asequibles. (...) Hay una competencia desleal basada en quién puede exprimir más a los repartidores."
Una tribuna de Oliver Roethig y Dimitris Theodorakis, de la unión sindical UNI Europa.
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In 1489, the Thurn and Taxis family had an imperial monopoly to carry the mail of Europe’s elites.
500 years later, that network has become a public service – but its status is now at risk in the place where it was born: Brussels.
Our op-ed in @euobserver.com.
The European Commission's proposal for procurement reform is imminent.
Join us tomorrow for the first-ever European Procurement Summit to hear from workers, businesses and civil society about the stakes.
Only a few places left. Register now.
Oliver Roethig said: “Far too many essential workers go home without a living wage, without a collective agreement. This is a policy failure – and the European Commission must remedy it by promoting collective bargaining in public procurement.”
Full summary:
We agreed on the need for a simplified, not deregulated European framework to use the public purse’s enormous spending power for good jobs and quality goods and services.
As the European Commission prepares to reform the rules governing over 2 trillion euros in annual public procurement, UNI Europa brought together a coalition of unions, businesses, civil society and lawmakers for the first-ever Procurement Summit in Brussels today.
We support the action of trade unions for socially responsible public procurement focused on people and quality jobs.
It is unacceptable that public money continues to fuel exploitation. Instead, it must ensure good working conditions and support companies that respect collective agreements.
Every year, EU public authorities spend over €2 trillion on goods and services.
But the system for awarding these contracts to private companies is broken.
We are here to fix it.
Join us at the Procurement Summit next week on 14 April in Brussels.
Register: www.uni-europa.org/meetings/eur...
Cleaners at London Heathrow have begun a strike that could last until the end of the year.
Essential reading by my colleague Mark Bergfeld on their fight against a race to the bottom.
You can’t feed a family on 16 hours a week. Yet, this is the brutal reality for commerce workers – especially women – trapped in “involuntary part-time” work.
This insecurity fuels the gender pay gap and pension poverty.
We demand sustainable jobs and real worker power over hours and schedules.
UNI Europa expresses its solidarity with Portugal's workers who have launched their first general strike in 12 years today.
This historic mobilisation is a legitimate and necessary response to an unjust labour reform proposed by Portugal's government.
“The EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap is testament to a growing European consensus on public procurement. The Commission acknowledges that promoting collective bargaining in public contracts can build quality jobs for workers across Europe,” said UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig.
AI shouldn’t come at the cost of workers and the environment !
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter warning that the accelerated approach to AI development could cause a “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth”. 🌎
Another reason to #MakeAmazonPay
My newest for @euobserver.com follows the story of securing rights for food delivery workers after Spain's passing of the landmark Rider Law.
While the law was a major step, the process that followed was lengthy and saw years of falsely classified self-employment for these workers.
In Belgien haben die Gewerkschaften den Sozialstaat besser verteidigt als in den meisten anderen europäischen Ländern. Jetzt soll ein dreitägiger Streik die neuesten Kürzungspläne verhindern.
In Deutschland warnt der DGB vor Konflikten wegen Sozialkürzungen, in Belgien führen die Gewerkschaften die Konflikte an. Heute hat ein dreitägiger Generalstreik gegen die Sparpläne der Regierung mit einem breiten Branchenbündnis begonnen.
Nice piece here by @danielkopp.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the Belgian labour movement's impressive efforts to block the gov's austerity program.
Massive three-day strike starting today organized by the country's unions.
As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT
Tech firms are spending more than ever on lobbying the European Union amid mounting opposition to the bloc’s digital rules, according to new analysis.
Read my interview with @uaw.org organiser and former autoworker Jeremy — out now in English.
It's easy to mock the French for seeming to want unlimited government spending. I've done it myself. But I sympathise with their anger: France is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. Me
@financialtimes.com on France's undertaxed billionaires - close to Macron on.ft.com/4qwaFDh
This week, a historic 140,000 workers from across all of Belgium protested the government's cuts to pensions, salaries and the welfare state.
BREAKING🇪🇺: After the European Parliament adopted a report on public procurement today, we call on the Commission to ensure that public money is only given to companies whose workers are covered by collective agreements.
In her #SOTEU speech, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu again stressed the need for a so-called “28th regime” for innovative companies.
But a new @etui.bsky.social analysis confirms what we have been saying all along: the proposal is unnecessary and harmful.
BREAKING: European unions representing 45 million workers across Europe just sent a letter to EU High Representative Kaja Kallas demanding decisive and principled EU action on Gaza.
The EU-US trade deal averts a tariff war but comes at a high cost for jobs, industry & fair trade. Unions urge a strong political response, democratic scrutiny & investment in Europe’s industrial and tech sovereignty.
news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/1334
@judekd.bsky.social @ibarthes.bsky.social
🚨It’s been a year since Amazon workers in India said:
🥵“It’s too hot in the warehouse.”
📦So… did Amazon fix it?
😡Not really.
✊🏿That's why workers are organizing with Amazon India Workers Union
#MakeAmazonPay
