The Accord is proud to announce that the initial inspections of Accord producing factories have been completed within the agreed timeline of end September 2014. Out of 1106 factories inspected, over 400 Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) have been finalised by the factories and company signatories, as well as being approved by the Accord Chief Safety Inspector (CSI).
Nearly 800 women workers at Gold East Paper Co., Ltd. in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu China went on strike on 15 October.
The dispute was triggered when the workers got no pay increase while a group of their colleagues were benefited. The workers asked an explanation, a nonsence excuse was given by HR Manager as the demanding workers’ jobs were outsourced and they are not the workers of the company anymore but they are the workers of the agency. Then they responded the protests with humiliation as saying “shut up or sod off!”
On the 11th of June the Belgian multinational Delhaize has announced a draconic transformation plan.
All the participants were excited and eager to join the activity. In the Day Two of UNI Apro Youth Workshop, all participants got to know each other well with more solidarity, despite of their different countries and cultures.
Yesterday's, team activities, included a ; “Discovery @ UNI Apro you(TH)’s, were carried out to visit some symbolic places in Kuala Lumpur by using the public transportation. In addition, each group was assigned to get the information the extent to people's knowledge about trade unions and how globalization has been affecting them.
Following the publication of the new TERA study, UNI MEI Global Union and the International Federation of Actors (FIA) raise serious concern by the destruction of jobs in the creative sector due to arge-scale commercial digital piracy.
UNI APRO You(TH) – Including You workshop started on 16th October 2014 at the Federal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur attended by 50 young unionists and 11 resource person from the Asia Pacific region. This youth workshop is being held in collaboration with UNI Apro and The Federation of Information and Communication Technology Service Workers of Japan (ICTJ).
The head of UNI’s Tokyo Office, Eiichi Ito has been in Cape Town this week to see for himself the preparations for the upcoming UNI Global Union World Congress. Brother Ito was joined by the President of UNI Africa and General Secretary of SACCAWU, Bones Skulu, UNI Africa Regional Secretary Zakari Koudougou and Keith Jacobs, Head of UNI’s Johannesburg office.
Brother Ito was impressed by the CTICC convention centre in Cape Town where the congress will unroll in December.
UNI and its affiliates are fully behind TUC members and the British public who will take part in series of marches and activities on Saturday 18 October in the UK, under the banner “Britain Needs a Pay Rise”.
The principles of ILO conventions have made huge contribution for fair distribution of income and wealth, since the founding of the unique tripartite institution in 1919; said Jayasri Priyalal, UNI Apro Director for Finance Sector Activities at a public lecture on “Benefits of Collective Agreements” organized by the Federation of Bank Officers of Sri Lanka (FBOSL) at the Bank of Ceylon Auditorium
Civil society organisations from the United States and the European Union (EU), write with regard to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations and their potential impact on financial regulations, to the Chief negotiators, EU financial regulators and Finance Ministers.
