Years of building support on Capitol Hill for the Employee Free Choice Act paid off this week when labor leaders joined the bill's sponsors to announce that the bill — H.R. 800 — was introduced i...
UNI global union today (February 8) condemned the millions of pounds of quick profit already made in the stock market frenzy around a possible bid from private equity groups for J Sainsbury.
“T...
The news that three private equity groups are working together on a bid for the UK grocery chain J Sainsbury is a clear sign of just how big and ambitious these corporate raiders have become. ...
UNI Global Union has called on the French President and government not to invite Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe to the Franco-Africa Summit being held in Cannes on 15/16 February 2007. ...
While business owners and managers gathered at a union-bashing seminar inside the Chamber of Commerce in Lexington, Ky., on the morning of 29 January 2007, some 40 proud union members gathered ...
International Framework Agreements: a global tool for supporting rights at work. France Telecom has become the latest company to sign an international framework agreement with a global union fe...
Philip Jennings opens UNI staff meeting in Nyon
Worskshops look at developing work in UNI sectors
Organising and signing agreements with world’s biggest companies are key themes of the annual...
ITUC President Sharan Burrow (left) during WEF session: Breaking the glass ceiling
WEF copyright: swissimage.ch/Severin Nowacki photo
Global unions have used the gathering of top business and...
Speech by Philip J. Jennings at the World Economic Forum
2006 saw record merger activity. Over a quarter of all deals involved private equity.
Private equity companies are raising record fund...
Brussels, 23 January 2007:
A delegation of 12 international trade union leaders at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this week will be calling companies to account on corp...
