UNI Europa Commerce and EuroCommerce today signed a pledge to raise awareness and support more quality, access and fairness in apprenticeships in retail and wholesale.
One in five Europeans work in the retail and wholesale sector – a sector with many possibilities for career development if the right skills are furthered. Apprenticeships provide a valuable mix of formal study and on-the-job training.
UNI Europa supports ETUC's (European Trade Union Confederation) key demands for the COP21, taking place in December 2015 in Paris to seal a new global agreement to fight climate change. It was adopted by the ETUC Execeutive Committee on 17-18 June.
The ETUC Executive Committee, which UNI Europa is a part of, has at its meeting on 17-18 June 2015 expressed solidarity with Greek member organisations GSEE and ADEDY.
The austerity programmes of the Troika have created a profound humanitarian and social crisis in Greece, worsened the debt crisis and are now causing uncertainty in the whole EU.
Celebrating the United Nations Public Services Day, UNI MEI Global Union issues the electronic version of its Manifesto on Independent and High Quality Public Service Broadcasting.
UNI urges all affiliates to sign petition in support of Clerys workers
The UNI Europa Youth Conference is taking place in Dublin this week and one of the major issues they will be discussing is how to organise young workers into a union. Many of the delegates who are here this week attended the Summer School in Portugal earlier this year. As a step in their training they were asked to produce a short film on a mobile phone which they feel represents the best ways to engage with young people. The films are varied, interesting and contain some great messages.
Finance Services Commission (FSC) of Korea has come up with the restructuring plan to split the Korea Stock Exchange (KRX) and KOSDAQ (Trading platform for Small Medium Size Companies).
KRX Union representing the Korea Stock Exchange employees affiliated with KFCLU held a press conference in front of the Finance Service Commission Kwanghwamoon street in Seoul today. 22nd June 2015, insisting the FSC to withdraw the proposed restructuring plan.
UNI’s good global labour relations with French leading multinational retailer Carrefour gain local recognition in Poland with an award afforded to Carrefour Pool and management by UNI affiliate, the National Section of Commerce Sector Employees of NSZZ “Solidarność”.
After almost three years of a long and hard-fought campaign, UNI affiliate KOOP-IS has signed its first collective bargaining agreement with IKEA Turkey management.
Essa semana, o grupo de política fiscal dos Estados Unidos Americans for Tax Fairness publicou um relatório novo intitulado “The Walmart Web: How the World’s Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes.” (A rede Walmart: como a maior corporação mundial utiliza secretamente paraísos fiscais para sonegar impostos).
