Tens of thousands of Spanish postal workers were on strike 4 May, demanding the government stop blocking negotiations for a new collective agreement in Correos, the Spanish national postal operator. UNI affiliates CC.OO and UGT led the call among other unions which brought more than 85% of Spanish postal workers to the streets to demand an end to layoffs and for better pay and conditions.
Dear Colleagues,
Giesecke & Devrient is searching for labour forces, which are willing to work temporary in Munich, all over the world. Giesecke & Devrient relocates work load to other companies. The reason is: Munich is gone on strike! At the end of April we are on strike for 20 days.
With 28 participants, including 10 women, the FES / UNI seminar for young workers opened in Tunisia on 28 April 2015. Participants from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia have started work under the direction of Leocadie Abouo, Regional Representative in charge of Women and Youth and Mongi Abderrahim, activities coordinator for the MENA region.
This led to implementation of our theme "Including you" which fully finds its meaning when young people are involved.
Today millions of workers across the world are out on the streets to celebrate the dignity of labour and protest at the rise of inequality. International Worker’s Day has its roots in a strike for the 8 hour working day in Chicago, 1866 in which several protestors were killed. More than a 150 years later, workers are still having to fight for their basic human rights at work and the struggle goes on.
The UNI family is out in force today taking part in celebrations all over the world and you can follow them on social media.
Following the 4th World Congress of UNI Global Union, Greece’s Telecom Employee Federation, has made strides in their new Collective Labor Contract for the years 2015-2017.
Some major wins for the union include:
Dear brothers and sisters,
We commemorate this 1st of May, 2015 in a time when workers’ struggles are increasing to secure the right to freedom of association, collective bargaining, and especially, the right to strike which is constantly threatened by the pressure of corporations and some governments who want to eliminate it. This 1st of May we will be exactly one year away from the 130th Anniversary of the start of the huge strike for an eight-hour day among other claims, which resulted in the execution of the Chicago martyrs.
About 200,000 telecom employees BSNL of India went on two days national strike on 21st and 22nd April 2015 was spontaneous and swept the whole country affecting all administrative/operative Offices, Customer Care Centres and Telephone Exchanges and maintenance work of wire and wireless systems including the mobile. Workers deserted the work place from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The strike was near total in most of the states on both the days. The strike was called by the forum of unions and associations including the INTUC affiliated NUBSNLW-FNTO.
Urgent call for donations needed after Nepal rocked by a second powerful earthquake - magnitude 7.3.
Union members spoke and distributed leaflets at Prosegur’s Annual General Meeting in Madrid today to demand the firm responds to, and fixes, serious allegations of human rights abuses in South America.
To mark the end of the European Commission’s consultation on the Lamy Report, European employers and employees from the creative and cultural industry join forces in the Wider Spectrum Group and call for spectrum policy to be a pillar of an ambitious industrial strategy for Europe’s creative and cultural sector.
