Barclays informed its workforce on November 14 that it will be reducing 1,700 frontline roles from across its branch network. Cashiers, personal bankers, operational specialists, branch managers and assistant manager roles will be cut throughout 2014. This is on top of last week's announcements of the closure of the Coventry and Dartford centres, which put around 600 workers at risk of redundancy.
Following the failure of the negotiation launched since March 2013 between the Dutch trade union and the Management of DS Smith in view to get a pay increase of 1.5% for their workers, the Dutch trade union decided on 12 November to organise a strike in the plant in Tilburg. More than 50 workers went on strike and they were joined by colleagues from the plants in Eerbeek en Zaandam. On 13 November FILPAC-CGT from France published a press release to show the solidarity and the support of the French workers with their Dutch colleagues from DS Smith.
Violence against women is a persistent world-wide problem, and occurs in every age and economic group. The perpetrators of that violence are often well known to their targets. Domestic violence, in particular, continues to be frighteningly common, and to be accepted as “normal” within many societies. As a matter of fact, up to 70% of women will experience violence during their lives and among women aged between 15 and 44 years, acts of violence cause more death and disability than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents and war combined.
On November 3rd 2013, OIYE, UNI affiliated Union for the commerce sector in Greece, held a strike action against a law that would allow shop opening hours on Sundays
UNI Gaming invites all affiliates to support Las Vegas workers in their fight for union rights and colleactive bargaining.
On 14 November 2013, the UNIMED financial sector unions met in Valencia, Spain. The group, composed of trade unions from Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Turkey held a joint meeting with their sister organisations from the southern shore of the Mediterranean including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Israel, and the Lebanon. The federation represents 500,000 workers employed in the finance industry.A sustainable financial sector is at the service of the real economy, of sustainable development, of professionalism and human dignity.
Here we share the statement: “It has come to the attention of the JTUM that as per past practice by previous administrations, there is an intent by the PP government to replace particular judges/members of the Industrial Court, whose contracts of employment are near expiry, with persons otherwise who may be favoured based on political affiliation.
On 6 and 7 November the final conference of the UNI Europa project entitled “EWCs: tools for transnational action for the services and communication sectors” took place in Granada, Spain.
UNI's Breaking Through and Freedom from Fear prizes have been awarded at the World Executive meeting in Dublin. The Breaking Through Awards are given in recognition of outstanding union growth, whilst the Freedom from Fear Awards for exceptional courage in difficult circumstances.
The winners are as follows:
UNI Global Union Breaking Through Awards - In recognition of outstanding membership growth
At the UNI Global Union World Executive Board meeting in Dublin, Oliver Roethig, UNI Europa Regional Secretary, reported on regional developments and upcoming challenges for the labour movement.
