UNI Global Union's approach to the financial crisis
13/10/2008 - In a circular to all its affiliates, UNI's General Secretary, Philip Jennings, sets out the global union's approach to addres...

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The recent weeks explosive development of the financial crisis, has prompted a heated public debate on banks’ use of bonus remuneration systems. The damaging effect that bonus systems and share option schemes have on financial stability have become apparent to regulators and politicians, as has the missing link between executives’ performance and their sky-high salaries

The CEPU has begun gearing up for industrial action to help members reach a new union collective agreement with Telstra.

The financial crisis has made its entry in Europe, but nowhere as dramatically as in Iceland. Within one and a half week, the three major banks in Iceland have been declared bankrupt and/or taken over by the government.