On April 15th, a large delegation of UNI Americas was received by the new Minister of Labour and Social Security of Uruguay, Ernesto Murro. UNI’s brothers and sisters travelled to Montevideo to attend the Regional Steering Council, which was held the day before.
The Société Générale Global Alliance and the BNP Paribas Global Alliance were officially launched in Marrakech on the 14th of April at the MENA meeting which included 56 participants from 16 countries.
Working people are celebrating today after the American-led Fight for 15 campaign grew into one of the largest protests by low-wage workers in modern history.
Across America, and in cities around the world, tens of thousands took to the streets in strikes and protests to demand a living wage and the right to join a union without retaliation.
From Tokyo to Auckland, Paris to Sao Paulo, Toronto to Milan and Chicago to Casablanca, protestors were out in force in 40 countries and over 100 cities.
Fast food workers, retail and care workers, security guards, students and more are taking to the streets of towns and cities around the world to join the Fight for $15 campaign for a new minimum wage in the United States.
Speaking at the Universal Postal Union's World Strategy Conferece in Geneva, UNI Global Union General Secretary Philip Jennings challenged the UPU and the world's postal operators to move more quickly to ensure that posts are at the center of achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. By their universal reach and unrivaled trust among the public, postal workers and postal operators are ideally positioned to grow economies, lead to financial and social inclusion and reduce poverty, Jennings said.
Postal operators from around the world have assembled in Geneva this week to discuss the future of the industry at a Universal Postal Union World Strategy Conference. The event, which has as its theme "innovation, integration and inclusion", brings together UPU members ahead of the 2016 Congress in Istanbul to outline the UPU's strategy to transform postal services for the 21st century realities of declining letter post and the e-commerce boom in its wake.
The US-based express company FedEx has placed a $4.8 billion bid to buy the Dutch parcel company TNT. The planned merger is seen as FedEx's attempt to grow it's European-based operations in a new effort to compete with DHL, UPS and DPD-GeoPost in the European market as e-commerce brings a massive boom to the parcel and express markets there. The news comes two years after European regulators blocked UPS's attempts to buy TNT, fearing a decrease in competition in the market.
UNI stands with Ireland's Mandate Trade Union in roundly condemning retribution against Dunnes Stores workers
UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings on the importance of America’s fight for a $15 minimum wage.
In two continents workers have responded in the same way to attacks on their representatives by Smurfit Kappa management
