UNI Europa Property Services and the European Federation of Cleaning Industries (EFCI) send a joint reply to the European Commission’s second stage consultation of Social Partners under Article 154 TFEU on enhancing EU cooperation in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work.
The financial and economic crisis that has garbled the global and European economy since 2008 resulted in intense and profound changes to industrial relations and working conditions.
One year on from the Rana Plaza factory disaster, UNI Global Union has released several videos on the progress made over the last year in Bangladesh. See more videos at www.unibangladeshaccord.org!
Trade unions from all the Americas region demonstrated their solidarity support to victims of Rana Plaza. We want to share a message from the Regional Secretary of UNI Americas, Sist Adriana Rosenzvaig, one year after the tragedy of Bangladesh
One year has passed since the tragedy in Bangladesh, where 1138 were killed and many more were mutilated or seriously injured. What happened in Bangladesh was not a catastrophe, but the result of capitalist greed, that seeks to level down to earn more and more, regardless of the environmental and human costs.
At the end of January 2014 the European Commission presented its proposal on Structural Reform of Banks. The idea is to separate banks’ riskier trading activities from their deposit taking activities. The proposal however only applies to the banks that are so called “too-big-to-fail, too-big-to-save and too-complex-to-resolve”.
As a response to the financial crisis, the finance sector has experienced a wave of regulation. Strengthened capital requirements, liquidity ratios, solvency etc. have been necessary regulatory initiatives for the confidence in the financial sector. For UNI Europa Finance’s members, the amount of regulation directly affecting their day to day-working life has meant that we have had to step up our work on influencing the decision-making agenda.
UNI Europa participated in achACT solidarity action
The Bangladesh Accord and UNI Global Union message was highlighted this week in several top level publications such as The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, Sky, Le Monde and Le Figaro.
NFU: the Nordic countries have strong rules for safety and health at the workplace. It is a main achievement from over 100 years of trade-union work. Through the EU it has in many ways been extended, both in the Nordic region and in Europe. A new approach from the European Commission is now challenging these achievements.
The approach is called REFIT, and the idea from the Commission is to start a work to decrease the administrative burden for small and medium enterprises (SME). SMEs are companies with 250 employees or less, and they represent 99% of businesses in the EU.
According to a recent research study from the Norwegian School of Management BI commissioned by the Finance Sector Union in Norway (FSU-NO) employees in the Norwegian finance sector work on average 15 extra days a year without pay.
Today’s financial sector is currently undergoing huge technological advances. Smart phones and tablets have become a part of day-to-day routines. Employees are often equipped with mobile technology by their employer who expects increased availability in return. What do these changes do to the labour market?
