After exhausting all avenues for the Moroccan government to open a responsible social dialogue on workers' demands, the Moroccan labour movement has declared a 24 hour general strike on Wednesday 24 February.
UNI Global Union has written to Banglalink, the second largest mobile network in Bangladesh, to express its deep concern over recent events at the company, which left a union officer in hospital, another dismissed, and all of the company’s offices temporarily closed.
UNI Global Union celebrates acquittal of CCOO’s Lola Villalba and Gonzalo Fuentes after UNI backed campaign
UNI Global Union says Smurfit Kappa Poland’s anti-union methods are an insult to its workforce
In an important development in the investment world, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has announced a new initiative in which it details the human rights expectations of the companies within its investment portfolio.
UFCW President Marc Perrone highlighted the historic announcement as part of UFCW’s ongoing commitment to building a strong and diverse union
UNI affiliate, the United Food & Commercial Workers made history by electing Esther López as the International Secretary-Treasurer. The decision to appoint López, a champion for working men and women, displays UFCW’s commitment to building a diverse and strong union family.
On 2nd February 2016, Zimbabwe Banks and Allied Workers Union demonstrated outside the British Embassy and handed over a petition (see pdf below) to the officials expressing their disappointment with the series of planned and structural retrenchments, job cuts and discriminatory compensation packages.
UNI Global Union Deputy General Secretary Christy Hoffman calls on brands to "step up to their responsibility"
The EU must do more to protect Bangladesh garment workers by ensuring the country’s government complies with the rules of its trade arrangement – this was the finding of a recent evaluation by global unions UNI and IndustriALL.
Walmart told to reinstate 16 workers sacked for joining strike action
