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UNI unites unions in 150 countries to help service workers build power through organizing & collective bargaining.

We are workers in retail, banking, post, care, media, sport, printing, tech & telecoms, gaming, property services.

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✊Powerful essay by Christy Hoffman on how Amazon’s business model is pushing us all to a breaking point and why workers are pushing back. #BlackFriday to #MakeAmazonPay
TheWire.in
Heat, Crunch, and Algorithmic Control: The Human Cost Pushing Amazon Workers into the Streets
This Black Friday, as protests unfold from New Delhi to Berlin to Montréal, we have a choice to make.
thewire.in
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
🚩BREAKING! From New Delhi to Montreal and beyond, thousands will take to the streets this #BlackFriday to #MakeAmazonPay for labour abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy.

✊Join Us! #MakeAmazonPay
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women our focus is on technology-facilitated gender-based violence. From online harassment and stalking to deepfakes and doxxing, digital violence is rising as quickly as tech spreads. Workers need protection.
🔗https://ow.ly/FXHH50XwKrK
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🏳️‍⚧️ Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn our lost siblings and call for justice. Trade unions have a duty to defend trans workers. An injury to one is an injury to all.
uniglobalunion.org/news/defendi... #TDoR
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚙🚍🚶‍♀️“I spend a total of 4 hours commuting to & from the office on a normal day.”

TikTok workers in Ireland face brutal daily commutes. This is not sustainable. Solidarity with @cwuireland.bsky.social Ireland fight for hybrid work rights.
TikTok staff fear becoming 'absent parents' as over 200 petition against full office return
One worker facing a four-hour return commute told The Journal she has serious anxiety about how ‘absent’ she will be from her child’s life.
www.thejournal.ie
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚙🚍🚶‍♀️“I spend a total of 4 hours commuting to & from the office on a normal day.”

TikTok workers in Ireland face brutal daily commutes. This is not sustainable. Solidarity with CWU Ireland in their fight for hybrid work rights.

https://www.thejournal.ie/tiktok-ireland-3-6877283-Nov2025/
TikTok staff fear becoming 'absent parents' as over 200 petition against full office return
One worker facing a four-hour return commute told The Journal she has serious anxiety about how ‘absent’ she will be from her child’s life.
www.thejournal.ie
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🔥 2024 heatwave, inside Amazon DEL4, India.

“Even if we fainted, we couldn’t take a day off & go home. If we took that day off, our pay would be cut, & if we took three days off, they would fire us.”

#MakeAmazonPay

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t breathe’ – This is climate breakdown
As summer went on, the temperature climbed and climbed. Every day became harder. This is Neha’s story
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
We join FNV Vakbond in calling for the immediate reinstatement of Pawel Rudzki, who was fired by Albert Heijn - Netherlands’ biggest supermarket chain - for standing up for workers.
🔗https://uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-and-fnv-call-for-urgent-reinstatement-of-pawel-rudzki-at-albert-heijn/
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎉A big congratulations to Tez-Koop-İş Union!

🏆 Winner of the 2025 UNI Global Union Breaking Through Award for its organizing in challenging and difficult conditions.

https://ow.ly/LeXa50XqEUs
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
🎉 Breaking Through for worker's rights in Turkey!

We’re proud to celebrate our Turkish affiliate KOOP İŞ (Cooperative, Commerce and Office Workers’ Union of Türkiye) - winner of UNI Global Union’s 2025 Breaking Through Award! 🏆

https://ow.ly/JkOQ50XqE9Q
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🎉SITOES, the union for call centre workers in El Salvador, just won our Breaking Through Award for organizing the country’s first industry-wide union in the BPO sector 📞

With support from UNI Americas, they are fighting for dignity, fair work and the right to organize 🙌❤️

https://ow.ly/J1lh50XqBHa
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Swatch workers in Turkey set to strike in dispute over contract and pay

"The company's proposals were unfair, discriminatory and far below workers’ expectations. We are left with no choice but to strike," said Eyup Alemdar, Koop-Is president.

https://ow.ly/8NPX50XonMr

November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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John O Connell, FSU General Secretary, attended the @ecb.europa.eu Social Dialogue meeting with @president.ecb.europa.eu on behalf of @uniglobalunion.org Finance in Frankfurt today where they discussed the digital euro, access to cash, AI and EDI.

BETTER WITH THE FSU
fsunion.org/fsu/join
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
As @caseynewton.bsky.social writes, "Crime pays" for Facebook.

If the platform doesn't want to be a pillar of the "global fraud economy," it needs professionalized fact checking and content moderation — and more of it.
www.platformer.news/meta-scams-p...
Meta has a scam problem
The company's own projections showed up to 10 percent of its revenue could come from scams, according to a new leak. PLUS: OpenAI's "backstop" controversy
www.platformer.news
November 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🇹🇷 ⌚Time’s up! Workers at all 16 Swatch stores across Turkey have announced a #strike starting 10 November — after months of broken negotiations and unfair proposals.
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/swatch-workers-turkey-strike/
Time’s up - Swatch workers in Türkiye set to strike
Swatch store workers to strike across Türkiye
uniglobalunion.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Historic win for Romania’s insurance workers!

Our affiliate FSIF secured the first-ever sectoral collective agreement for the country’s insurance industry.

This agreement will:

📋Set minimum working conditions
🛡️Enhance job protections
🎓Make commitments to training

https://ow.ly/KRwo50XnFwm
Romania’s insurance workers secure historic first sectoral agreement
First-ever sectoral collective agreement in the insurance sector in Romania.
ow.ly
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
🎭🎬 A new UNI Europa report reveals how COVID-19 reshaped Europe’s cultural industries, speeding up digitalization while deepening precarity + inequality.

💻 We're calling for a just digital transition that:

🎥 Protects creators
💶 Ensures fair pay
🌍 Safeguards cultural work

https://ow.ly/agso50Xn6Bx
UNI report: Pandemic reshapes Europe’s cultural sector, deepening inequalities
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently reshaped Europe’s cultural industries, leaving behind an uneven recovery marked by digital acceleration, job precarity and widening gender disparities, according to a new UNI Europa-commissioned report, “The Post-COVID Transformations in the Live Performance and Audiovisual Sectors – A Trade Union Analysis.”  The study finds that the crisis has exacerbated long-standing
ow.ly
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨 Big win for workers in 🇦🇺! Unions won an ethical conduct clause blocking companies guilty of union-busting from public contracts.

A model for the world! #MakeAmazonPay
Australia unions score win as new rule will block Amazon-style union-busting from public spending
Australia has introduced an ethical conduct clause into its federal procurement rules.
uniglobalunion.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
“We are going to be earth’s best employer and earth’s safest place to work.”— Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder.

😡Tell that to the workers suffering fractures, burns & heart attacks in his warehouses. #MakeAmazonPay
Broken bones, heart attacks and chemical burns - the human cost of Amazon orders
2,500 serious injury incidents have been recorded in UK Amazon warehouses in the last ten years - roughly one injury every day and a half
inews.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
From Ghana to Japan to Chile, unions are proving one truth:

✊Violence and harassment in care can be stopped, when workers organize.

In @contextnewsroom.bsky.social Christy Hoffman calls for global action to #ProtectCareWorkersNow. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Care workers shouldn't come home with bruises. How can we stop it? | Context by TRF | UNI Global Union
"They call it care work because it’s built on compassion—but what does it say about our societies when those who care for our loved ones come home with bruises?" In her new essay for Context Newsroom...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
On International Day of Care & Support, we call on governments & employers to #ProtectCareWorkersNow & take action to stop violence & harassment in care.

✅Safe staffing
✅ Strong unions
✅ Real protections
✊ are non - negotiable.

⚕️ So every worker can #CareWithoutFear⤵️
New global report exposes epidemic of violence in care and how unions are fighting back
Union initiatives to prevent violence and harassment in the care workforce.
uniglobalunion.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
They protect kids from the worst content on the massive game platform Roblox.

Their reward? Trauma and low wages.

These moderators, hired by Concentrix, expose the dangers of keeping the internet safe and why content moderators are organizing worldwide.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/2025/10/...
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On #InternationalDayOfCareAndSupport, a new
@uniglobalunion.org report exposes a global crisis of violence & harassment in care.

🚨 8 in 10 care workers have faced or witnessed abuse.

✊ Safe staffing. Strong unions. Real protections are non-negotiable.

#ProtectCareWorkersNow
New global report exposes epidemic of violence in care and how unions are fighting back
Union initiatives to prevent violence and harassment in the care workforce.
uniglobalunion.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🎉Good news! We've renewed our global agreement with 🛒Carrefour, strengthening workers’ rights across both Carrefour’s direct and franchised operations.

🔗https://uniglobalunion.org/news/carrefour-and-uni-renew-global-agreement/
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM