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A workers' committee in Thun, Switzerland have been the first to sign on to UNICARE Europa's position paper highlighting the impacts of austerity on the social insurance and private care sector in Europe.

These workers, from the private care sector, and their union, UNIA, are standing together with other European social insurance and private care unions to reject the cuts their sectors are facing, but also to highlight what can be done to bring important, and necessary, change to the sector.

Unions plan to join together in voicing not only the challenges, but also some of the changes needed in the care and social insurance sectors to ensure our elderly, children, disabled, or those in need of support, are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. The future of our private care and social insurance industries is dependent on workers and the public uniting over these common concerns and standing together for change.

Congratulations to the Thun UNIA private care worker committee. The UNICARE Europa Working Group looks forward to hearing who will be next!