{"id":3534,"date":"2023-02-16T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni-europa.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3534"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:14:39","slug":"interview-how-can-2-trillion-euros-of-public-money-be-leveraged-to-help-workers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni-europa.org\/news\/interview-how-can-2-trillion-euros-of-public-money-be-leveraged-to-help-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: How can 2 trillion euros of public money be leveraged to help workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etui.org\/publications\/psychosocial-risks-mounting-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.etui.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/node_publication\/public\/2023-01\/HM26-cover.PNG?itok=mp-yLms4\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>\u2018Should your taxes go to employers who repress unions and avoid collective <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">bargaining?\u2019 asks Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa. \u2018Or should <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">they go to employers who pay their workers decently and respect democracy<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">at work?\u2019 This question is at the heart of the campaign launched this year by <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the seven million-member strong European service workers union to tighten <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the conditions around bidding for public contracts. Roethig, who has headed<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">UNI Europa since 2011, also sits on the Executive Board of UNI Global Union,<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">which represents 20 million workers worldwide and of which UNI Europa is<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">the European regional organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etui.org\/publications\/psychosocial-risks-mounting-crisis\">HesaMag<\/a> spoke to him in his Brussels<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">office about UNI Europa\u2019s strategy to use public procurement to level up the <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">collective bargaining coverage in EU countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the interview here: <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Oliver Roethig &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etui.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-01\/HM26_How%20can%202%20trillion%20euros%20of%20public%20money%20be%20leveraged%20to%20help%20workers_2023.pdf\"><em><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">How can 2 trillion euros<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of public money be <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">leveraged to help workers?<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Should your taxes go to employers who repress unions and avoid collective bargaining?\u2019 asks Oliver Roethig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa. \u2018Or should they go to employers who pay their workers decently and respect democracy at work?\u2019 This question is at the heart of the campaign launched this year by the seven million-member strong European<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[1],"topics":[81],"sectors":[],"projects":[],"cross-sector-groups":[],"workers-rights":[],"global-issues":[],"regions":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Interview: How can 2 trillion euros of public money be leveraged to help workers? 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