New priorities and leadership of Care sector unions in Europe

Care unions from across Europe gathered in Warsaw for the UNI Europa Care Conference between 23 and 24 November. It was the first in-person meeting since the Covid-19 crisis.

Topics discussed included:

• Tackling Violence and Harassment in the Care sector
• Labour Shortages, Labour Turnover & Understaffing
• Private Equity in Care
• Care, Collective Bargaining and the Cost-of-Living Crisis
• Organizing in Nursing Homes
• Organizing Homecare workers
• The EU Care Strategy

The unions elected Pierangelo Raineri of FISASCAT-CSIL (Italy) as President.
In his first speech as UNI Care Europa President Pierangelo Raineri detailed UNI Care Europa’s successes in advocating for enhanced trade union access and rights in the sector in the context of the European Commission’s European Care Strategy.

Elected: Pierangelo Raineri is the UNI Europa Care President.

Welcome @pierraineri! We look forward to your leadership in building trade union power to deliver better conditions for care workers across Europe. #unicare pic.twitter.com/TRA5M7I8s8

— UNI Europa (@UNI_Europa) November 24, 2022

Frédéric Favraud of FEC-FO (France) will assume the role of Co-President.

Here you can find the full report of the conference and for more information on UNI Care Europa’s activities, please contact: Mark Bergfeld, UNI Care Europa Director, mark.bergfeld@uniglobalunion.org