By Christy Hoffman, UNI Global Union General Secretary International Workers’ Day is time to celebrate our achievements and look to the future. Earlier this week, UNI Europa held its conference, themed “Forward Through Collective Bargaining.” There could have been no better topic for this moment. Some of you from outside…

Christy Hoffman, General Secretary of UNI Global Union Dear Mr. Bezos, I write on behalf of UNI Global Union and its affiliated unions from 150 countries, employed in many service industries including ecommerce and logistics. Some of our members represent your workers in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Poland. In…

By Christy Hoffman, General Secretary of UNI Global Union The old adage “Mourn for the Dead but Fight like Hell for the Living” rings even more true on this International Workers Memorial Day, taking place during an unprecedented threat to the health of working people. As each day passes, we…

By Christy Hoffman, General Secretary of UNI Global Union Devastating wildfires in Australia, deadly floods in Bangladesh and Indonesia, mass protests in Chile and Lebanon. Stock markets roar as income inequality soars. Decades of political neglect have left our planet in a state of upheaval, and it’s becoming clearer that…

Why women and youth are leading the way in the Palestinian Territories Palestine is an incredibly young society — 37% of the population are under 17 and 24% are aged between 19 and 24. A whopping two-thirds of the population are under 29. Yet when Dr Samer Salameh, the Deputy Minister of Labour for the Palestinian authority opened the workshop, he noted…

Donald Trump and his allies have crammed a decade’s worth of lies and “alternative facts” into the past year, but all that obfuscation and misdirection cannot hide this simple fact: the Trump White House has launched an all out attack on America’s working people. This attack comes as Trump continues…

By Phillip Jennings, General Secretary of UNI Global Union There’s a time for leadership, for inspiration, for big ideas, and Donald Trump clearly does not think that time is now. Over the past week, Trump has delivered two significant speeches, first at the World Economic Forum and then the State…

She was a young organiser faced with a challenge — to help workers at global fashion giant H&M form a union. In 2016, the Swedish multi-national chain was opening its first store in New Zealand, and Sarah Thompson was hired by First Union to lead the organizing effort there. From…

Amazon workers in Italy and Spain dish the details on Amazon’s poor labour practices and why trade unions are the key to decent work at the E-Commerce giant. Francisco has worked at Amazon for 5 years. According to him, this makes him one of the company’s longest-serving workers. “Nobody retires…