October 1 is International Day of the Older Person. On this day, staff who work day-in and day-out to care for our elders are putting out the call for the valuing of care work. This is because care workers know the treatment of our elderly is tied to the conditions and treatment of the care workforce.
UNI Europa replied to the public consultation on the Commission's Stakeholder Consultation guidelines and to the public consultation on the revision of the Commission’s Impact Assessment guidelines.
UNI Europa's replies as well as the ETUC's final replies are annexed here for your information. The consultations run until 30/09/2014.
Workers from across Hong Kong have responded to a call from trade union centre HKCTU to join strike action in support of democratic reform, as security forces continue their violent repression of peaceful protests led by students.
The second round of collective negotiations has failed on the wage dispute in the paper, paperboard and plastics processing sector of Germany. The last offer from Ver.di, 3.7 % wage increase for 12 months, was rejected by HPV, the Employer Association. Ver.di decreased its wage request from 5,5% to 3,7% under the condition that the collective agreements in the sector are either compulsory or industry minimum wages are to be introduced.
UNI Europa Sport and EASE, the European Association of Sport Employers, held a conference in Brussels to discuss the issue of employability in the European Sport Sector. All three subsectors were well represented: professional sport (EU Athletes), active leisure, and not for profit sport. Agata Dziarnowska from the European Commission made a presentation that focused on the EU Work Plan for Sport 2014-17 and, specifically, the Expert Group on Human Resource Management in Sport.
Industrial action at Amazon in Germany continues
Ver.di says the first day of strike at Amazon has been a success. At noon on Monday, some 2000 employees stopped work at the four Amazon locations in Germany: Bad Hersfeld, Hesse, Leipzig, Saxony, Graben bei Augsburg, Bavaria and Rheinberg, North Rhine Westphalia.
On the 18th and 19th of September a second workshop for the Mentoring Program was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at the BANADE headquarters. The workshop was organized by the Head of the Equal Opportunities Department, Verónica Fernández Méndez and the Head of UNI Americas Women, Katy González, with the coordination of the President of UNI Americas Women, Alejandra Estoup.
UNI Europa and Eurocommerce have just published a newsletter on the latest activities and highlights from the European Sector Skills Council for Commerce (ESSC).
In order to pursue its mission, the Commerce ESSC includes in its Work Programme a range of activities aimed at drawing a picture as accurate as possible of the sector’s workforce composition and trends in skills demand and offer, identify skills needs, indicate possible answers and, on the basis of this analysis, issue recommendations to stakeholders in order to more effectively address them.
Brussels, 22 September 2014 - During the Plenary Meeting of the European Social Dialogue Committee on Telecommunications, the social partners UNI Europa and ETNO (the European Telecommunication Network Operators’ Association) signed a Joint Declaration on gender equality.
