Union leaders gathered in Rome at the UNI Europa Regional Conference and endorsed an emergency statement designed to support and contribute the humanitarian efforts to welcome and integrate refugees to Europe.

“We need unions - your passion, experience and knowledge.” - This was the message from an Amazon crowd worker to trade unions at the UNI Europa Conference in Rome.

“You have been there and done it, we haven’t” said Kristy Milland, a worker of ten years’ experience on the Amazon platform Mechanical Turk. Milland is Community Manager of TurkerNation.com which began organizing workers once it recognised the need to protect those using the platform.

Activist and Amazon Mechanical Turk worker Kristy Milland  addressed Congress about the grim reality of crowd work

Some of Europe’s largest trade unions have agreed a common strategy to fight anti-union legislation advancing across the continent.