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There is a battle going on at the EU over pay transparency. The result will de determining for efforts to close the gender pay gap. In it’s first draft, proposed legislation was delayed and diluted following a push back from certain employers. They are trying to carve out and exclude different groups of workers from…

Telecommunications is a sector in which new digital tools are regularly being introduced. As such, digital upskilling is key. UNI Europa has launched a project aimed at expanding best practice in digital upskilling. It is a joint project with the employers’ organisation ETNO, the social partners in the telecommunications sector. Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of…

  “2021 is a time to give meaning to all of this.” Oliver Roethig looks ahead to a year of building services workers’ power. With the 5th UNI Europa Conference on the horizon, unions are poised to set a common agenda and push forward on three fronts: organising, policy advocacy and multinational coordination.

As scrutiny over Amazon’s anti-union practices, environmental impact, tax avoidance and worker safety intensifies in Europe and the United States, UNI Global Union, Progressive International, Oxfam, Greenpeace and dozens of civil society organizations, environmentalists and tax watchdogs are joining forces on Black Friday to #MakeAmazonPay. Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa was with Progressive International to hand over our common demands to their lobbying office…

The second wave in Poland is having a devastating effect, with nursing homes heavily hit. In Torun, one of the early hotspots, nursing home workers have taken a stand to protect those most vulnerable to COVID-19. With under-staffing, shortages of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), and a lack of overall resources, these long-term care workers…