UNI Global Union
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UNI unites unions in 150 countries to help service workers build power through organizing & collective bargaining.
We are workers in retail, banking, post, care, media, sport, printing, tech & telecoms, gaming, property services.
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We are workers in retail, banking, post, care, media, sport, printing, tech & telecoms, gaming, property services.
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Brenita Cloete, deputy president of our South African affiliate, #SACCAWU has been a shop worker for over five decades. This week she joined UNI and other affiliates for a meeting at the the ILO in Geneva about safety in retail
October 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Brenita Cloete, deputy president of our South African affiliate, #SACCAWU has been a shop worker for over five decades. This week she joined UNI and other affiliates for a meeting at the the ILO in Geneva about safety in retail
Thousands of call centre workers in Morocco and Tunisia have lost their jobs after a new French law banning unsolicited calls came into force in August. Unions are calling for consultation ahead of major changes to the industry, retraining and better income protection. https://ow.ly/5M6850ZSZYE
September 30, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Thousands of call centre workers in Morocco and Tunisia have lost their jobs after a new French law banning unsolicited calls came into force in August. Unions are calling for consultation ahead of major changes to the industry, retraining and better income protection. https://ow.ly/5M6850ZSZYE
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After a 2-year fight and a credible strike threat, Norway's hairdressers won a major victory: advance sick pay, higher wages and paid unsocial hours.
This victory is exceptional in a traditionally non-union sector. We sat down with hairdresser-turned-union leader Vivian Jacobsen to learn about it.
This victory is exceptional in a traditionally non-union sector. We sat down with hairdresser-turned-union leader Vivian Jacobsen to learn about it.
How Norway’s hairdressers won big after threatening to strike
After a two-year fight and a credible strike threat, Norway’s hairdressers win advance sick pay, higher wages and paid unsocial hours.
www.uni-europa.org
September 29, 2026 at 7:42 AM
After a 2-year fight and a credible strike threat, Norway's hairdressers won a major victory: advance sick pay, higher wages and paid unsocial hours.
This victory is exceptional in a traditionally non-union sector. We sat down with hairdresser-turned-union leader Vivian Jacobsen to learn about it.
This victory is exceptional in a traditionally non-union sector. We sat down with hairdresser-turned-union leader Vivian Jacobsen to learn about it.
🎉 sverigesingenjorer.bsky.social and @unionen.bsky.social sign a collective agreement with King, advancing worker voice and fair conditions in the games industry.
This victory matters beyond Sweden. It's further proof that games jobs can be good jobs, and that when workers stand together, they win!
This victory matters beyond Sweden. It's further proof that games jobs can be good jobs, and that when workers stand together, they win!
September 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
🎉 sverigesingenjorer.bsky.social and @unionen.bsky.social sign a collective agreement with King, advancing worker voice and fair conditions in the games industry.
This victory matters beyond Sweden. It's further proof that games jobs can be good jobs, and that when workers stand together, they win!
This victory matters beyond Sweden. It's further proof that games jobs can be good jobs, and that when workers stand together, they win!
🇹🇭 We're proud to support creative workers in Thailand, who are drafting the first-ever guidelines for a fair contract in the sector. ✊
https://ow.ly/o3qj50ZR4bR
https://ow.ly/o3qj50ZR4bR
September 24, 2026 at 4:23 PM
🇹🇭 We're proud to support creative workers in Thailand, who are drafting the first-ever guidelines for a fair contract in the sector. ✊
https://ow.ly/o3qj50ZR4bR
https://ow.ly/o3qj50ZR4bR
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Today, we rallied in Brussels outside the @ec.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu together with workers and trade unionists from all across Europe against deregulation and social dumping.
We will keep fighting to "fix or sink the EU Inc" that would allow companies to evade national labour standards.
We will keep fighting to "fix or sink the EU Inc" that would allow companies to evade national labour standards.
September 24, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Today, we rallied in Brussels outside the @ec.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu together with workers and trade unionists from all across Europe against deregulation and social dumping.
We will keep fighting to "fix or sink the EU Inc" that would allow companies to evade national labour standards.
We will keep fighting to "fix or sink the EU Inc" that would allow companies to evade national labour standards.
As part of the global trade union movement, UNI stands in solidarity with our union siblings in Turkey.
Read the full statement: uniglobalunion.org/news/global-...
Read the full statement: uniglobalunion.org/news/global-...
September 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
As part of the global trade union movement, UNI stands in solidarity with our union siblings in Turkey.
Read the full statement: uniglobalunion.org/news/global-...
Read the full statement: uniglobalunion.org/news/global-...
Following a shocking attack on trade unionists by police in the Argentinian province of Tucumán, UNI is backing a complaint filed with the International Labour Organization’s Committee on Freedom of Association by our affiliate, La Bancaria. https://ow.ly/zujF50ZOllT
September 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Following a shocking attack on trade unionists by police in the Argentinian province of Tucumán, UNI is backing a complaint filed with the International Labour Organization’s Committee on Freedom of Association by our affiliate, La Bancaria. https://ow.ly/zujF50ZOllT
🚨BREAKING! G4S promised its guards in India 8-hour shifts & decent pay.
A new report tells a different story: no written contracts, 12-hour shifts with no seating, guards fired for unionizing. #G4SFailure
thewire.in/labour/a-glo...
A new report tells a different story: no written contracts, 12-hour shifts with no seating, guards fired for unionizing. #G4SFailure
thewire.in/labour/a-glo...
A Global Security Giant is Failing the People Who Guard India's Malls, Offices and Building Sites
The conditions G4S guards describe are an abuse of their basic rights, as workers and as humans.
thewire.in
September 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM
🚨BREAKING! G4S promised its guards in India 8-hour shifts & decent pay.
A new report tells a different story: no written contracts, 12-hour shifts with no seating, guards fired for unionizing. #G4SFailure
thewire.in/labour/a-glo...
A new report tells a different story: no written contracts, 12-hour shifts with no seating, guards fired for unionizing. #G4SFailure
thewire.in/labour/a-glo...
⚠️UNI stands with more than 1,300 workers at Encore Boston Harbor, the Wynn Resorts casino resort in Massachusetts, USA, who are on strike ✊ Follow the strike at local26.org/encore. UNITE HERE Local 26 Teamsters
September 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
⚠️UNI stands with more than 1,300 workers at Encore Boston Harbor, the Wynn Resorts casino resort in Massachusetts, USA, who are on strike ✊ Follow the strike at local26.org/encore. UNITE HERE Local 26 Teamsters
🚨"What can I give them? Because I've got nothing." — a G4S guard on payday, despite working full-time.
New UNI Global Union report: 16-hour days, poverty wages, sexual harassment for better posts. Across SA, Uganda, DRC. #G4SFailure
New UNI Global Union report: 16-hour days, poverty wages, sexual harassment for better posts. Across SA, Uganda, DRC. #G4SFailure
16-hour days: G4S guards tell of exploitation across Africa
Report reveals hunger, debt and hazards faced by G4S employees in SA, Uganda and the DRC
www.businessday.co.za
September 14, 2026 at 7:30 AM
🚨"What can I give them? Because I've got nothing." — a G4S guard on payday, despite working full-time.
New UNI Global Union report: 16-hour days, poverty wages, sexual harassment for better posts. Across SA, Uganda, DRC. #G4SFailure
New UNI Global Union report: 16-hour days, poverty wages, sexual harassment for better posts. Across SA, Uganda, DRC. #G4SFailure
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As millions of workers and their families are suffering from today’s affordability crisis, the EU Procurement Act is a clear opening to remedy some of their material concerns.
Our press release on today's presentation of the EU Procurement Act.
Our press release on today's presentation of the EU Procurement Act.
EU Procurement Act could see €2.5 trillion public spending improve workers’ livelihoods
As millions of workers and their families are suffering from today’s affordability crisis, the EU Procurement Act is a clear opening to remedy some of their material concerns.
www.uni-europa.org
September 9, 2026 at 1:09 PM
As millions of workers and their families are suffering from today’s affordability crisis, the EU Procurement Act is a clear opening to remedy some of their material concerns.
Our press release on today's presentation of the EU Procurement Act.
Our press release on today's presentation of the EU Procurement Act.
✊ Solidarity with Concentrix workers and our Spanish affiliates CC.OO and UGT who are planning to take legal action after the outsourcing giant failed to justify further job cuts at its A Coruña operations. Around 160 of the site's 360 jobs have gone since July. https://ow.ly/l7OG50ZJimp
September 4, 2026 at 2:13 PM
✊ Solidarity with Concentrix workers and our Spanish affiliates CC.OO and UGT who are planning to take legal action after the outsourcing giant failed to justify further job cuts at its A Coruña operations. Around 160 of the site's 360 jobs have gone since July. https://ow.ly/l7OG50ZJimp
🚨36-hour shifts. Wage theft. Sexual harassment for a "better" posting.
A new UNI report exposes what G4S guards face while protecting valuable mines & security operations in South Africa, DRC & Uganda. #G4SFailure
Full report: uniglobalunion.org/news/failure...
A new UNI report exposes what G4S guards face while protecting valuable mines & security operations in South Africa, DRC & Uganda. #G4SFailure
Full report: uniglobalunion.org/news/failure...
September 1, 2026 at 7:49 AM
🚨36-hour shifts. Wage theft. Sexual harassment for a "better" posting.
A new UNI report exposes what G4S guards face while protecting valuable mines & security operations in South Africa, DRC & Uganda. #G4SFailure
Full report: uniglobalunion.org/news/failure...
A new UNI report exposes what G4S guards face while protecting valuable mines & security operations in South Africa, DRC & Uganda. #G4SFailure
Full report: uniglobalunion.org/news/failure...
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The EU has a historic opportunity to improve workers’ livelihoods by setting an example in how it chooses to spend public money.
Oliver Roethig urges @steph-sejourne.bsky.social and @ec.europa.eu to follow Australia's and Scotland's examples for the upcoming EU Procurement Act.
Oliver Roethig urges @steph-sejourne.bsky.social and @ec.europa.eu to follow Australia's and Scotland's examples for the upcoming EU Procurement Act.
A positive example for others to follow
The EU has a historic opportunity to improve workers’ livelihoods by setting an example in how it chooses to spend public money
www.ips-journal.eu
August 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
The EU has a historic opportunity to improve workers’ livelihoods by setting an example in how it chooses to spend public money.
Oliver Roethig urges @steph-sejourne.bsky.social and @ec.europa.eu to follow Australia's and Scotland's examples for the upcoming EU Procurement Act.
Oliver Roethig urges @steph-sejourne.bsky.social and @ec.europa.eu to follow Australia's and Scotland's examples for the upcoming EU Procurement Act.
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BREAKING🇨🇿: In under two years since setting up their union, Microsoft workers in the Czech Republic have won a landmark collective bargaining agreement.
They secured better pension benefits, higher severance packages and better company communication.
They secured better pension benefits, higher severance packages and better company communication.
Microsoft workers in Czechia win first collective agreement
In under two years since setting up their union, workers at Microsoft in the Czech Republic have won a landmark collective bargaining agreement.
www.uni-europa.org
August 27, 2026 at 8:05 AM
BREAKING🇨🇿: In under two years since setting up their union, Microsoft workers in the Czech Republic have won a landmark collective bargaining agreement.
They secured better pension benefits, higher severance packages and better company communication.
They secured better pension benefits, higher severance packages and better company communication.
Hundreds of workers in commerce, tech and finance protested outside Romania's Ministry of Labour on 25 August. Their demands: unblock sectoral collective bargaining and raise the minimum wage from 1 January 2027.
https://ow.ly/eH9150ZFHlq
https://ow.ly/eH9150ZFHlq
August 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Hundreds of workers in commerce, tech and finance protested outside Romania's Ministry of Labour on 25 August. Their demands: unblock sectoral collective bargaining and raise the minimum wage from 1 January 2027.
https://ow.ly/eH9150ZFHlq
https://ow.ly/eH9150ZFHlq
📢 UNI condemns abhorrent Russian attack on Ukrainian shopping centre. Full statement here: https://uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-condemns-abhorrent-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-shopping-centre/
August 24, 2026 at 12:53 PM
📢 UNI condemns abhorrent Russian attack on Ukrainian shopping centre. Full statement here: https://uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-condemns-abhorrent-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-shopping-centre/
It appears to not account for our humanity and sets a pace that doesn't understand we are not robots - SDA's Gerard Dwyer on the scheduling algorithms already running retail work in Australia. Part 1 of our conversation on AI:
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/making-ai-work-for-working-people-part-1/
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/making-ai-work-for-working-people-part-1/
Making AI work for working people: UNI’s Christy Hoffman and SDA’s Gerard Dwyer in conversation, Part 1
In April 2026 the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA), Australia’s retail and warehousing union, released For All of Us: Making AI Work for Working People, a report it commissioned from the John Curtin Research Centre. In response, UNI President and National Secretary-Treasurer of the SDA, Gerard Dwyer, spoke with UNI Global Union General
uniglobalunion.org
August 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
It appears to not account for our humanity and sets a pace that doesn't understand we are not robots - SDA's Gerard Dwyer on the scheduling algorithms already running retail work in Australia. Part 1 of our conversation on AI:
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/making-ai-work-for-working-people-part-1/
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/making-ai-work-for-working-people-part-1/
In response to the ongoing illegal attacks on Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, UNI Global Union calls on the Israeli government to end the impunity of settlers who commit acts of extreme violence against Palestinians.
Read our statement.
Read our statement.
August 19, 2026 at 8:25 AM
In response to the ongoing illegal attacks on Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, UNI Global Union calls on the Israeli government to end the impunity of settlers who commit acts of extreme violence against Palestinians.
Read our statement.
Read our statement.
🌍 Happy International Youth Day! Let's hear from Crisnalda Nhamucale, UNI Africa Youth president from SINECOSSE union in 🇲🇿 Mozambique ✊
August 12, 2026 at 8:15 AM
🌍 Happy International Youth Day! Let's hear from Crisnalda Nhamucale, UNI Africa Youth president from SINECOSSE union in 🇲🇿 Mozambique ✊
Bank workers at BRD – Groupe Societe Generale, one of Romania’s largest banks, will hold a two-hour warning strike on 13 August after overwhelmingly voting to reject a new contract that slashes existing protections and benefits.
https://ow.ly/3L4x50ZyBRs
https://ow.ly/3L4x50ZyBRs
August 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Bank workers at BRD – Groupe Societe Generale, one of Romania’s largest banks, will hold a two-hour warning strike on 13 August after overwhelmingly voting to reject a new contract that slashes existing protections and benefits.
https://ow.ly/3L4x50ZyBRs
https://ow.ly/3L4x50ZyBRs
Bosses want to roll out AI without safeguards and without worker input. This article is 1000% right:
"Those with a union contract have a say in their technological future.
Those who don't may be on their own."
www.axios.com/2026/07/26/u...
"Those with a union contract have a say in their technological future.
Those who don't may be on their own."
www.axios.com/2026/07/26/u...
Unionized workers are bargaining with the bots
Collective bargaining can preserve jobs, pay and worker input as AI spreads.
www.axios.com
August 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Bosses want to roll out AI without safeguards and without worker input. This article is 1000% right:
"Those with a union contract have a say in their technological future.
Those who don't may be on their own."
www.axios.com/2026/07/26/u...
"Those with a union contract have a say in their technological future.
Those who don't may be on their own."
www.axios.com/2026/07/26/u...
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Brilliant from @mayor.nyc.gov . Join the #MakeAmaonPay campaign @uniglobalunion.org @gmbcampaigns.bsky.social
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon.
Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
August 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Brilliant from @mayor.nyc.gov . Join the #MakeAmaonPay campaign @uniglobalunion.org @gmbcampaigns.bsky.social
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