Interview: How can 2 trillion euros of public money be leveraged to help workers?

‘Should your taxes go to employers who repress unions and avoid collective bargaining?’ asks Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa. ‘Or should they go to employers who pay their workers decently and respect democracy at work?’ This question is at the heart of the campaign launched this year by the seven million-member strong European service workers union to tighten the conditions around bidding for public contracts. Roethig, who has headed UNI Europa since 2011, also sits on the Executive Board of UNI Global Union, which represents 20 million workers worldwide and of which UNI Europa is the European regional organisation.

HesaMag spoke to him in his Brussels office about UNI Europa’s strategy to use public procurement to level up the collective bargaining coverage in EU countries.

Read the interview here: Oliver Roethig – How can 2 trillion euros of public money be leveraged to help workers?