UNI Global Union
@uniglobalunion.org
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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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
"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
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
"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
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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.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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.
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BETTER WITH THE FSU
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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...
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
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...
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...
🇹🇷 ⌚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/
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
🇹🇷 ⌚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/
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/swatch-workers-turkey-strike/
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
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.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:48 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
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
🎭🎬 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
💻 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
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November 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🎭🎬 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
💻 We're calling for a just digital transition that:
🎥 Protects creators
💶 Ensures fair pay
🌍 Safeguards cultural work
https://ow.ly/agso50Xn6Bx
🚨 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
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
🚨 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
A model for the world! #MakeAmazonPay
“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
😡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
“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
😡Tell that to the workers suffering fractures, burns & heart attacks in his warehouses. #MakeAmazonPay
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/...
✊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...
www.linkedin.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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/...
✊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/...
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⤵️
✅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
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⤵️
✅Safe staffing
✅ Strong unions
✅ Real protections
✊ are non - negotiable.
⚕️ So every worker can #CareWithoutFear⤵️
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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
@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
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
@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
🎉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/
🔗https://uniglobalunion.org/news/carrefour-and-uni-renew-global-agreement/
October 24, 2025 at 8:08 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/
🔗https://uniglobalunion.org/news/carrefour-and-uni-renew-global-agreement/
Over 1⃣1⃣5⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣safety violations in US dialysis clinics.
2⃣ #Fresenius & #DaVita behind most of them.
😡 Same story: profit before patients.
2⃣ #Fresenius & #DaVita behind most of them.
😡 Same story: profit before patients.
Death rates at U.S. dialysis clinics among the highest in the industrialized world
In Texas, where the number of dialysis centers is higher than in any other state, the I-Team discovered that the problem is especially severe.
www.cbsnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Over 1⃣1⃣5⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣safety violations in US dialysis clinics.
2⃣ #Fresenius & #DaVita behind most of them.
😡 Same story: profit before patients.
2⃣ #Fresenius & #DaVita behind most of them.
😡 Same story: profit before patients.
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Thousands of health workers are striking across the motu on October 23rd.
They’re standing up for health, asking for safe staffing and fair wages.
We’ve put all the location information for PSA members on our website along with some FAQ’s.
They’re standing up for health, asking for safe staffing and fair wages.
We’ve put all the location information for PSA members on our website along with some FAQ’s.
Stand together for health on 23 October
On 23 October, nearly 17,000 PSA health members are striking for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve.On 23 October, nearly 17,000 PSA health members are strik...
psa.org.nz
October 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Thousands of health workers are striking across the motu on October 23rd.
They’re standing up for health, asking for safe staffing and fair wages.
We’ve put all the location information for PSA members on our website along with some FAQ’s.
They’re standing up for health, asking for safe staffing and fair wages.
We’ve put all the location information for PSA members on our website along with some FAQ’s.
✊ We stand in solidarity with @nzno.bsky.social
& @nzpsa.bsky.social members striking on 23 October for safe staffing, fair pay, and respect for every health worker.
Your fight is our fight!
#WeStandTogether #SafeStaffingNow #FairPayForCare
& @nzpsa.bsky.social members striking on 23 October for safe staffing, fair pay, and respect for every health worker.
Your fight is our fight!
#WeStandTogether #SafeStaffingNow #FairPayForCare
Stand together for health on 23 October
On 23 October, nearly 17,000 PSA health members are striking for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve.On 23 October, nearly 17,000 PSA health members are strik...
www.psa.org.nz
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
✊ We stand in solidarity with @nzno.bsky.social
& @nzpsa.bsky.social members striking on 23 October for safe staffing, fair pay, and respect for every health worker.
Your fight is our fight!
#WeStandTogether #SafeStaffingNow #FairPayForCare
& @nzpsa.bsky.social members striking on 23 October for safe staffing, fair pay, and respect for every health worker.
Your fight is our fight!
#WeStandTogether #SafeStaffingNow #FairPayForCare
Dignity on the job is essential for essential workers in AI supply chains, says UNI G.S. Christy Hoffman speaking at the @thomsonreutersfndn.bsky.social Trust Conference today.
#TC2025
#TC2025
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Dignity on the job is essential for essential workers in AI supply chains, says UNI G.S. Christy Hoffman speaking at the @thomsonreutersfndn.bsky.social Trust Conference today.
#TC2025
#TC2025
👩💻If we are not sharing in the gains of AI, we are really supercharging the concentration of wealth and power.
Christy Hoffman on ensuring workers have a say in AI rollouts via CONTEXT @thomsonreutersfndn.bsky.social
#TechWorkersRising #TC2025
Christy Hoffman on ensuring workers have a say in AI rollouts via CONTEXT @thomsonreutersfndn.bsky.social
#TechWorkersRising #TC2025
Q&A: Give workers a say in AI rollout, says union head | Context by TRF
As AI spreads through the world's workplaces, the head of UNI Global Union says workers must have a say in its rollout
www.context.news
October 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
👩💻If we are not sharing in the gains of AI, we are really supercharging the concentration of wealth and power.
Christy Hoffman on ensuring workers have a say in AI rollouts via CONTEXT @thomsonreutersfndn.bsky.social
#TechWorkersRising #TC2025
Christy Hoffman on ensuring workers have a say in AI rollouts via CONTEXT @thomsonreutersfndn.bsky.social
#TechWorkersRising #TC2025
🌍Today at the Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust Conference in London, UNI General Secretary Christy Hoffman will argue that trustworthy AI depends on good data - and fair conditions for the workers who annotate the data and moderate the content.
It’s time to bring these workers out of the shadows ✊
It’s time to bring these workers out of the shadows ✊
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🌍Today at the Thomson Reuters Foundation Trust Conference in London, UNI General Secretary Christy Hoffman will argue that trustworthy AI depends on good data - and fair conditions for the workers who annotate the data and moderate the content.
It’s time to bring these workers out of the shadows ✊
It’s time to bring these workers out of the shadows ✊
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Today, UNI Europa Professionals & Managers kicks off its three-day Conference in Venice, Italy.
@estherlynch.bsky.social from @etuc-ces.bsky.social noted that they “are under much more pressure than in the past. Today, a university degree no longer guarantees a stable future.”
@estherlynch.bsky.social from @etuc-ces.bsky.social noted that they “are under much more pressure than in the past. Today, a university degree no longer guarantees a stable future.”
October 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today, UNI Europa Professionals & Managers kicks off its three-day Conference in Venice, Italy.
@estherlynch.bsky.social from @etuc-ces.bsky.social noted that they “are under much more pressure than in the past. Today, a university degree no longer guarantees a stable future.”
@estherlynch.bsky.social from @etuc-ces.bsky.social noted that they “are under much more pressure than in the past. Today, a university degree no longer guarantees a stable future.”
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This week, a historic 140,000 workers from across all of Belgium protested the government's cuts to pensions, salaries and the welfare state.
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This week, a historic 140,000 workers from across all of Belgium protested the government's cuts to pensions, salaries and the welfare state.
🚨“Big Tech cannot build the future on disposable labour.”
Christy Hoffman, GenSec of @uniglobalunion.org.
“It’s time to hold Silicon Valley accountable for AI supply chain conditions.”
More on how AI’s rise depends on underpaid, hidden human labour in this @en.afp.com story. #TechWorkersRising
Christy Hoffman, GenSec of @uniglobalunion.org.
“It’s time to hold Silicon Valley accountable for AI supply chain conditions.”
More on how AI’s rise depends on underpaid, hidden human labour in this @en.afp.com story. #TechWorkersRising
Gruelling, low-paid human work behind generative AI curtain
For a generative artificial intelligence system to learn how to write an autopsy report, human workers must sort and annotate thousands of crime scene images.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🚨“Big Tech cannot build the future on disposable labour.”
Christy Hoffman, GenSec of @uniglobalunion.org.
“It’s time to hold Silicon Valley accountable for AI supply chain conditions.”
More on how AI’s rise depends on underpaid, hidden human labour in this @en.afp.com story. #TechWorkersRising
Christy Hoffman, GenSec of @uniglobalunion.org.
“It’s time to hold Silicon Valley accountable for AI supply chain conditions.”
More on how AI’s rise depends on underpaid, hidden human labour in this @en.afp.com story. #TechWorkersRising
'That was a moral, emotional injury to the worker’ — the
@nzno.bsky.social Care in Crisis report lays bare how understaffing in aged care doesn’t just harm residents — it wounds those who care. 💔 #Care4Carers
@nzno.bsky.social Care in Crisis report lays bare how understaffing in aged care doesn’t just harm residents — it wounds those who care. 💔 #Care4Carers
‘That was a moral, emotional injury to the worker’ — tears and the truth at report launch – Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand
kaitiaki.org.nz
October 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
'That was a moral, emotional injury to the worker’ — the
@nzno.bsky.social Care in Crisis report lays bare how understaffing in aged care doesn’t just harm residents — it wounds those who care. 💔 #Care4Carers
@nzno.bsky.social Care in Crisis report lays bare how understaffing in aged care doesn’t just harm residents — it wounds those who care. 💔 #Care4Carers
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💜 Congratulations to @seiu.org home care workers in Michigan!
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong
Nearly 32,000 Michigan home care workers unionize with SEIU Healthcare in historic win %
Historic win for home care workers in Michigan %
uniglobalunion.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
💜 Congratulations to @seiu.org home care workers in Michigan!
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong
💜 Congratulations to @seiu.org home care workers in Michigan!
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong
Nearly 32,000 Michigan home care workers unionize with SEIU Healthcare in historic win %
Historic win for home care workers in Michigan %
uniglobalunion.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
💜 Congratulations to @seiu.org home care workers in Michigan!
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong
Nearly 32,000 home care workers have unionized with SEIU Healthcare, demanding fair pay & dignity for all care work.
A historic step forward for care workers everywhere! #UnionStrong