EU country leaders meet tomorrow to decide on whether or not to give their green light to an ambitious Covid-19 recovery plan. Service sector workers have been at the forefront of the crisis. As the economic fallout looms, many service jobs are in the balance. As lockdown measures begin to life across the continent, Oliver…
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UNI Europa calls on EU to back Work-free Sunday “Do we really want to live without a Sunday, without a day where we don’t work?“, asks Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of the European services workers union UNI Europa. “Often workers don’t have a choice anymore. With all the negative consequences for their private lives. Our demand…
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Happy New Year from UNI Europa, the European Services Workers Union, and its 268 unions with 7 million members across Europe. Looking back on 2018 we were successful in putting the demand for a more Social Europe back on the agenda. But it is clear that we have a lot of work to do together…
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UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig, commenting on the first anniversary of the EU Social Pillar, said a real commitment to sectoral collective bargaining was necessary, if the initiative was to succeed for workers. Roethig said, “In a year we have not seen all that much – it’s like a brightly shining birthday candle without…
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Following a panel discussion on ‘Policy and market developments in the collaborative economy’ at an event organised by the European Commission’s Single Market Forum, Oliver Roethig, the Regional Secretary of UNI Europa, gave his thoughts on the current state of the collaborative economy.
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