Better Regulation Watchdog launches website
The Better Regulation Watchdog, established in May 2015, has launched its website www.betterregwatch.eu.
The Better Regulation Watchdog, established in May 2015, has launched its website www.betterregwatch.eu.
Primark employees and their unions from around Europe came together in Dublin on 16 and 17 June to create a network aimed at information exchange and cooperation across borders.
UNI Americas expresses its firm solidarity with the people and government of Greece, suffocated by the economic policies of the Troika of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the IMF, whose austerity measures have caused deep poverty.
The European Union's savage capitalism led by the Troika is incompatible with democracy, respect for Human Rights and the most basic rights of workers.
On Wednesday, 1 July and on Thursday 2 July 2015, WikiLeaks released two sets of documents including the secret Core Text for the largest 'trade deal' in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement, click here), whose 52 nations together comprise two-thirds of global GDP. The negotiating parties are the United States, the 28 members of the European Union and 23 other countries, including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan and Israel, forming a new economic bloc which excludes China and other BRICS countries.
The UNI Barclays Alliance meeting took place in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from the 23rd to the 25th of June 2015, gathering union leaders from Italy, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania as well as UNI Global Union Finance and UNI Africa.
One year after the kick-off meeting in Ghana, the core group of the Alliance took stock of the progress made so far and developed new plans for Alliance and the countries in the second part of the LO-TCO funded initiative.
UNI condemns the terrorist attack in Sousse, Tunisia that claimed 38 lives and left dozens more injured.
From SEIU 1199:
Tears of joy streaked the faces of cheering home care workers assembled in their Dorchester union hall on Thursday afternoon as a decades-long struggle for recognition and a living wage culminated in a historic moment of celebration.
UNI GS: "Greece must not be allowed to carry the can for collective international political and corporate failure."
Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa said: ‘We stand by our Greek affiliates who have been hit hard by the EU austerity policies but also by the Toika’s attack on labour and social rights. We are also concerned about the humanitarian crisis which will become even more catastrophic with pushing Greece out of the Eurozone. UNI Europa and its affiliates appeal to the EU to find a solution that puts the wellbeing of the Greek people first.’