Thousands of bank workers went on the streets in Italy to demonstrate against the end of the national collective agreement.
UNI's affiliates reported a 90% participation rate for today's strike action, protesting at Italy's Banking Employers' Association's unilateral unilateral decision to terminate the national collective agreement and change bank workers' terms and conditions from April 1.
Norwegian workers braved howling wind and rain to take to the streets during a successful national strike this week.
Hundreds of thousands of workers walked off the job in protest of the government’s proposed changes to the Working Environment Act. More than 20,000 marched on the Parliament in Oslo whilst further events were held in over 200 towns and cities across the country.
An unidentified man entered the office of Colombian union Sintravalores on Tuesday threatening the union’s secretary.
In its meeting on 27 January 2015, the UNI Europa Graphical Steering decided to adopt the document “The future of publishing” which was discussed during a European Conference organised end of 2014.
This document “The future of publishing” includes a working programme to be implemented in the next years. Among the different actions and activities that are within this work programme, we would like to underline the following points:
Although Amazon claims to be the world’s largest online retailer, and makes over 7 billion dollars in Germany alone, workers at Amazon Germany are not feeling the benefits.
The law on new bankers’plee will be obliged for all bank employees in The Netherlands. To make this administrative simpler, the big banks agreed amongst themselves, to solve this through the CLA’s. Than all CLA employee is obliged to make this bankers’plee.
Members of FNV Finance do not wish such a law. They say it gives employers an extra stick to beat. Now FNV Finance is studying on extra safety guards for their members like assistance by the employer in case of dilemmas, employer-paid legal support and insurance in case of impeachment.
Over more than 40.000 signatures were received within 4 hours after the kick off of the Dutch citizen’s initiative. The initiative was taken by a group of actors called “the seducers” who attracted thousands of people for their play: “Taken by the banks”. All 47 shows were sold out.
Meaningful measures?
The finance sector is without a doubt one of the sectors that operates with highest frequency of performance measurement systems and have become a part of leadership strategies in our sector. A recent study conducted by the Norwegian Work Research Institute (WRI) on behalf of The Finance Sector Union – Norway (FSU-NO) shows that 90 percent of employees in the Norwegian finance sector are being measured on both individual and team-level performances.
The Barclays Europe Alliance was launched on the 26th of January in London at a meeting organized by UNI Global Union Finance and hosted by Unite UK (see the Barclays Europe Alliance document attached).
AV Industry stands untited in call for an industrial policy for Europe’s creative and cultural industries, urge decision-makers to see bigger picture on spectrum
Meeting in the European Parliament today, AER, APWPT, BNE, EBU, EFJ and UNI MEI called for an industrial strategy for creative and cultural industries based on growth, innovation and jobs.
