Labour MEPs have called for the EU to take urgent action over the pay and conditions of agency workers, after hearing first hand from workers and trade union representatives of the dreadful conditions hundreds of agency workers have been subjected to.
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The poverty-level wages earned by the home care workforce in the U.S. degrades care quality for millions of elders and people with disabilities, a PHI report argues.
Paying the Price: How Poverty Wages Undermine Home Care in America reports that the average hourly wage for a home care worker in 2013 was just $9.61.
Countdown to second Rana Plaza anniversary: Benetton pay up on Rana Plaza compensation!
Deutsche Post-DHL, the German national post office and the world’s leading express and logistics firm, have announced plans which would decimate as many as 10,000 jobs in the German post by 2020. Workers on fixed-term contracts sorting and delivering parcels in Deutsche Post will be transferred to new subsidiary companies called DHL Delivery.
UNI and its 20 million members support the right to strike! Today 18 February has been designated a global day of action in defence of the right to strike!
The day of action has been called by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Global Unions in response to the dramatic attack on the recognition of the right to strike in the global ILO conventions. The employers at the ILO fronted by legal mercenaries are set on erasing that recognition: anti-union Walmart punches have landed at the ILO.
UNI Post & Logistics Affiliates APWU, NALC and NPMHU have joined more than 60 other organizations in what's being called a "Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service." Facing unprecedented attacks from a right-wing Congress and postal management committed to dismantling the United States Postal Service, the unions and other groups have joined ranks to defend a future for a high-quality, public postal
UNI Europa Regional Secretary meets Greek Labour Minister on second day of Athens visit
UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig met Greece’s new Minster for Economy and called on Eurozone Ministers to give the country “space to breathe” following the latest breakdown in bailout talks.
The Bangladesh Accord on Fire & Building Safety, signed after the Rana Plaza disaster that cost the lives of over 1,100 workers in the garment industry in April 2013, broke new ground with regard to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It is the very first time that trade unions and garment brands world-wide are jointly involved in the monitoring of a legally-binding instrument of this kind.
ANZ is one of the largest banks in the Asia and Pacific Regions. UNI Finance and its affiliates are struggling with the bank to ensure that workers are being respected in all the countries where the company operates, including in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Fiji and the Philippines. In Australia, the ANZ workers have made a courageous step up to defend their rights.
