UNI Global Union extends its deepest sympathies to all those affected by the tragic boiler explosion at Multifabs Limited garment factory in Bangladesh on Monday 3 July that killed at least 11 people and injured more.
Over the past year Friends of Europe has crowdsourced ideas, opinions, insights and experiences from policymakers, industry and civil society, to think deeply about the implications of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
UNI Equal Opportunities Coordinator, Marta Ochoa contributed to the report with a chapter on The Path to Genderless Digitalisation, which you can find from page 66-70 in the document attached below.
Leading fashion brands are redoubling their commitments to responsible global supply chains by entering into a new Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh with global trade unions.
A recent U.N. report exposes the serious structural weaknesses in U.S. labour law that prevent workers in the United States from exercising their most basic human and workplace freedoms.
During a mission to the United States in 2016, Maina Kiai, former U.N. special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, documented the obstacles that working people confront when they exercise their freedom to form a union.
Stuart Applebaum takes over lead role in commerce, 'the engine room of UNI Global Union'
4 years on from the Rana Plaza tragedy, the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and safety is saving lives and changing the rules of the game in the global supply chain. At the UNI Commerce Conference, a high-level panel featuring unions, brands and NGOs talked about the successes of the Accord and plans for the future.
“Rana plaza was a call to actions – we simply could not allow business as usual to continue, “stated Christy Hoffman, Deputy General Secretary of UNI Global Union. “With the Bangladesh Accord, we turned a page in supply chain history.”
The President of ver.di, Frank Bsirske says that UNI Global Union is essential in the international strategy to improve workers’ lives and hold companies to account.
Addressing the UNI Commerce Global meeting in Berlin, the President of ver.di, Frank Bsirske, says that UNI Global Union is an essential tool in labour movement’s international strategy to improve workers’ lives and hold companies to account.
Worker activists with German union Ver.di gave personal testimonies regarding the importance of union organizing at online retailers at the UNI Global Commerce Conference in Berlin.
Thomas Rogil, an Amazon warehouse worker, helped lead the very first strike against the commerce giant in 2013. He told the UNI crowd that organizing was not easy, but in the face of employer opposition, the union has gained the support of Amazon workers in his facility and throughout Germany.
The growth of e-commerce and the digitalization of retail provide new opportunities for solidarity within the global labor movement. The discussion at the UNI Commerce Global Conference focused on unions’ responses to changes in how we work and shop.
Researcher Harvey McKeon from Peterloo Research described a digital landscape in which the largest online companies have only gotten larger—both in market capitalization and in employment footprint—while traditional brick-and-mortar enterprises are shrinking in many markets.
Thorben Albrecht, Permanent State Secretary, German Labour Ministry picks up on the theme of a just transition in the Future World of Work at UNI Commerce Global Conference
