UNI Global Union

We won! 🎉 Meta shut down @spbancarios.bsky.social union's WhatsApp with no explanation. A court has now ordered Meta to restore it. “No company, however powerful, should be able to interfere with workers’ fundamental right of freedom of association," Christy Hoffman, UNI GS https://ow.ly/iBts51012GU

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⚠️ Meta has permanently banned the WhatsApp service line of Brazil's @spbancarios.bsky.social union, citing only a generic “violation” and refusing every appeal. ✉️ UNI has written to Meta demanding the channel be restored and backs the union’s legal action. ✊ uniglobalunion.org/news/meta-mu...

A former moderator who reviewed violent content for Meta in Barcelona died. Her family believes her death is linked to that work. Our thoughts are with everyone who knew her. Content moderators need safety protocols now. uniglobalunion.org/news/a-moder...

🎉Congratulations to Jack & Jones workers in Türkiye who have won their first ever collective agreement! https://uniglobalunion.org/news/jack-jones-workers-in-turkiye-win-first-collective-agreement/

Today, TP workers at the world's largest outsourcing company are taking a stand together across borders. The French multinational company, formerly known as Teleperformance, must renew its global agreement with UNI and respect workers’ rights. https://ow.ly/P1uE50ZXU2W #RespectTPWorkers

Happy #WorldPostDay! On 9 October we honour more than 4 million postal workers around the world who keep us connected, day in, day out, come rain or shine. The post is built on the universal service obligation – YOUR right to send and receive mail at an affordable price. But it's under threat.

🌍 Today on #WorldPostDay we pay tribute to more than 4 million postal workers worldwide who deliver for us, no matter where we live, no matter who we are. Thank you!

✊ Today, 7 October, is the World Day for Decent Work, and young workers are leading the call for decent jobs, secure work and a wage they can live off. We spoke to UNI Youth Global President Crisnalda Nhamucale about what decent work means to young people https://ow.ly/4ZuH50ZV3ly

Brenita Cloete, deputy president of our South African affiliate, #SACCAWU, has been a shop worker for over five decades. This week she joined UNI and other affiliates for a meeting at the the ILO in Geneva about safety in retail

Thousands of call centre workers in Morocco and Tunisia have lost their jobs after a new French law banning unsolicited calls came into force in August. Unions are calling for consultation ahead of major changes to the industry, retraining and better income protection. https://ow.ly/5M6850ZSZYE

After a 2-year fight and a credible strike threat, Norway's hairdressers won a major victory: advance sick pay, higher wages and paid unsocial hours. This victory is exceptional in a traditionally non-union sector. We sat down with hairdresser-turned-union leader Vivian Jacobsen to learn about it.

🎉 sverigesingenjorer.bsky.social and @unionen.bsky.social sign a collective agreement with King, advancing worker voice and fair conditions in the games industry. This victory matters beyond Sweden. It's further proof that games jobs can be good jobs, and that when workers stand together, they win!

🇹🇭 We're proud to support creative workers in Thailand, who are drafting the first-ever guidelines for a fair contract in the sector. ✊ https://ow.ly/o3qj50ZR4bR

Today, we rallied in Brussels outside the @ec.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu together with workers and trade unionists from all across Europe against deregulation and social dumping. We will keep fighting to "fix or sink the EU Inc" that would allow companies to evade national labour standards.

As part of the global trade union movement, UNI stands in solidarity with our union siblings in Turkey. Read the full statement: uniglobalunion.org/news/global-...

Following a shocking attack on trade unionists by police in the Argentinian province of Tucumán, UNI is backing a complaint filed with the International Labour Organization’s Committee on Freedom of Association by our affiliate, La Bancaria. https://ow.ly/zujF50ZOllT

🚨BREAKING! G4S promised its guards in India 8-hour shifts & decent pay. A new report tells a different story: no written contracts, 12-hour shifts with no seating, guards fired for unionizing. #G4SFailure thewire.in/labour/a-glo...

⚠️UNI stands with more than 1,300 workers at Encore Boston Harbor, the Wynn Resorts casino resort in Massachusetts, USA, who are on strike ✊ Follow the strike at local26.org/encore. UNITE HERE Local 26 Teamsters

🚨"What can I give them? Because I've got nothing." — a G4S guard on payday, despite working full-time. New UNI Global Union report: 16-hour days, poverty wages, sexual harassment for better posts. Across SA, Uganda, DRC. #G4SFailure

As millions of workers and their families are suffering from today’s affordability crisis, the EU Procurement Act is a clear opening to remedy some of their material concerns. Our press release on today's presentation of the EU Procurement Act.

✊ Solidarity with Concentrix workers and our Spanish affiliates CC.OO and UGT who are planning to take legal action after the outsourcing giant failed to justify further job cuts at its A Coruña operations. Around 160 of the site's 360 jobs have gone since July. https://ow.ly/l7OG50ZJimp

🚨36-hour shifts. Wage theft. Sexual harassment for a "better" posting. A new UNI report exposes what G4S guards face while protecting valuable mines & security operations in South Africa, DRC & Uganda. #G4SFailure Full report: uniglobalunion.org/news/failure...

The EU has a historic opportunity to improve workers’ livelihoods by setting an example in how it chooses to spend public money. Oliver Roethig urges @steph-sejourne.bsky.social and @ec.europa.eu to follow Australia's and Scotland's examples for the upcoming EU Procurement Act.

BREAKING🇨🇿: In under two years since setting up their union, Microsoft workers in the Czech Republic have won a landmark collective bargaining agreement. They secured better pension benefits, higher severance packages and better company communication.

Hundreds of workers in commerce, tech and finance protested outside Romania's Ministry of Labour on 25 August. Their demands: unblock sectoral collective bargaining and raise the minimum wage from 1 January 2027. https://ow.ly/eH9150ZFHlq

📢 UNI condemns abhorrent Russian attack on Ukrainian shopping centre. Full statement here: https://uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-condemns-abhorrent-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-shopping-centre/

It appears to not account for our humanity and sets a pace that doesn't understand we are not robots - SDA's Gerard Dwyer on the scheduling algorithms already running retail work in Australia. Part 1 of our conversation on AI: https://uniglobalunion.org/news/making-ai-work-for-working-people-part-1/

In response to the ongoing illegal attacks on Palestinians throughout the occupied territories, UNI Global Union calls on the Israeli government to end the impunity of settlers who commit acts of extreme violence against Palestinians. Read our statement.

🌍 Happy International Youth Day! Let's hear from Crisnalda Nhamucale, UNI Africa Youth president from SINECOSSE union in 🇲🇿 Mozambique ✊

Bank workers at BRD – Groupe Societe Generale, one of Romania’s largest banks, will hold a two-hour warning strike on 13 August after overwhelmingly voting to reject a new contract that slashes existing protections and benefits. https://ow.ly/3L4x50ZyBRs

Bosses want to roll out AI without safeguards and without worker input. This article is 1000% right: "Those with a union contract have a say in their technological future. Those who don't may be on their own." www.axios.com/2026/07/26/u...

Brilliant from @mayor.nyc.gov . Join the #MakeAmaonPay campaign @uniglobalunion.org @gmbcampaigns.bsky.social

“Amazon doesn’t get it: workers have basic rights and deserve respect.” Solidarity with @unifor.org workers who just had a big win towards getting a first collective agreement. #MakeAmazonPay www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

During France's deadly heatwave, postal workers deliver a lot more than mail. They make sure the older, isolated and vulnerable make it through. That's vital social infrastructure. You don't get it back once it's gone. #SaveOurPost www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/w...

🌍Happy Africa Women's Day 🎉 "Gender equality is not a favour to be granted" says Rosemary Rauleka from our 🇿🇦 South African finance affiliate SASBO

🌍 On this Africa Women's Day, 31st July, a message of peace 🕊️ and an end to all conflict on the continent from Amira Trabelsi, UNI Africa committee member and member of our Tunisian affiliate, the UGTT. Sound on to 🔉listen in Arabic.

🌍Bonne Journée internationale de la femme africaine 🎉Happy Africa Women's Day! "On 31st July, 2026, we celebrate much more than a date," says UNI Africa Women's President, Pauline Sawadogo.

🌍 Happy Africa Women's Day ! Today on 31st July, we celebrate the women of Africa - "We are the backbone of the union, " says UNI Africa President Oyinkan Olasanoye, from Nigerian finance union ASSBIFI. "Let's celebrate ourselves!"🎉

✊ Workers at German multinational software giant, SAP, in Israel have won a renewed collective agreement after months of struggle. Gad Ravid, Chair of the SAP workers' committee said: "SAP is a unionized company; that is how it has been, and that is how it will remain." https://ow.ly/EarQ50ZuzuF

"As a migrant working here… it's not easy, and it has never been easy." In today's episode of our podcast "Unsung: Cleaners", we hear from Kwasi from Ghana who cleaned the London offices of one of the world’s largest investment banks for 20 years. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

A new CWA report reveals TP interpreters in the US face unsafe conditions, low wages and little recovery time between calls. "TP must do a better job to address the health & safety issues raised in this report," says UNI GS Christy Hoffman. https://ow.ly/bpxA50ZtTQj

"The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025... Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Grubhub and Instacart collectively ranked among the top three employers with workers receiving aid." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

📢 32,000 current and former ALDI workers in Australia are set to receive AU$55 million after our affiliate, the SDA, settled a long-running class action over claims for unpaid hours. https://uniglobalunion.org/news/aldi-workers-australia-win-aud-55-million-in-settlement-for-unpaid-hours/

“The biggest problem is that they choose the lowest bid. That ends up being paid by the worker.” In this episode of our podcast “Unsung: Cleaners”, we follow the money. We expose how “public procurement” has created a race to the bottom for cleaners. Listen now @macrodosepod.bsky.social.

The right to organize belongs to every worker, whatever their immigration status. That's our message to the UN Human Rights Committee. Proud to stand with BWI, @psiglobalunion.bsky.social and @idwfed.bsky.social in making this call. uniglobalunion.org/news/at-un-u...

After Denmark became the first country in the world to end letter delivery, it became a case study in why we must protect our postal infrastructure. Danish postal workers urge the EU not to prioritize profit over public service as it prepares to rewrite EU postal rules. https://ow.ly/NbT850ZpJRN

🎉🇵🇭 A huge victory for 2 million call centre and business process outsourcing workers in the Philippines, as they win a formal, dedicated seat at the table to shape their industry. https://ow.ly/Qezr50ZoVkS