On Friday, October 28, a Central London Employment Tribunal case ruled Uber drivers are employees and not self-contracted workers. As Christina Colclough, UNI Global Union’s Senior Advisor on the future world of work explained to the media house Politico Europe in an interview today, this ruling is a significant, much needed step along the way to stop the exploitation of workers. Colclough explains:
This week has seen a dramatic playoff between the Belgian region of Wallonia and the rest of the EU, as Wallonia initially denied to sign CETA – the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU.
“Viva Sasbo, Viva! Viva UNI, Viva”, were the cries from a packed hall to mark the centenary of the birth of the powerful African finance union Sasbo. It has been a century since a handful of bank clerks gathered in March 1916 and dedicated themselves to create a national union in the conservative bank sector.
UNI Global Union is stepping up the campaign to free KCTU President Han Sang-gyun and more than 20 other trade union leaders imprisoned in South Korea. They are serving prison sentences for standing up for workers’ rights.
Over 170 participants from 31 countries attended the UNI Youth Global Conference in Cape Town, South Africa earlier this month.
UNI Global Union and its 20 million members in 150 countries welcome the discussions taking place on the draft UN General Assembly resolution to start negotiations on a treaty banning nuclear weapons.
Berlin, October 25
Christina Colclough, UNI Global Union’s Senior Advisor on trade was in Berlin this week together with over 30 experts from the global and national union movement and civil society organisations to discuss the newest developments in the trade deals TiSA, CETA, TPP and TTIP. Colclough comments: “When you start unravelling these trade deals, finding how they interlink and discuss with the lawyers the implications of each text, it spells bad news for democracy, fundamental rights, our climate and our societies. The devil really is in the detail.”
HK Norway presents UNI Global Union with 500,000 Norwegian krone during its Oslo Congress
UNI Youth Conference in Cape Town joins Sasbo in organising young and vulnerable Capitec bank workers
Six hundred cleaners who clean for Target, Macy's and Best Buy stores in the Twin Cities have won the right to have a voice on the job in a union. This is the first time retail janitors have come together across an entire region to win the right to bargain collectively.
