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Daniel Kopp

@danielkopp.bsky.social
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Communications Director UNI Europa, Secretariat Progressive International, former Editor-in-Chief of International Politics & Society.

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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This morning, Romanian trade unionists protested in front of the European Commission in Brussels to demand respect for the EU minimum wage law. Minimum wages and sectoral bargaining are systematically blocked by employers and the government. We will keep fighting until our demands are met.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hayat is a cleaner at the European Parliament, union representative and mother who fought for daytime cleaning. On our podcast "Unsung", she shares what it's like to clean a building that symbolises democracy, while often being treated as invisible. Listen now: podfollow.com/macrodose/ep...
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“You cannot hire companies that disrespect labour law.” Alexander Frank from COESS, which brings together employers in the security sector, calls out the EU’s broken procurement rules that lead to labour shortages, raise barriers for investment and undermine fair competition.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Australia and Scotland have reformed procurement rules. As @steph-sejourne.bsky.social & @ec.europa.eu are about to release the EU Procurement Act, these examples show that you can promote collective bargaining and support good employers. Read our full op-ed on @mediapart.fr.
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Loi européenne sur les marchés publics : l’Australie et l’Écosse montrent la voie
Les leçons tirés de l’Australie et de l’Écosse sont clairs – et ils indiquent deux changements concrets pour le commissaire européen Stéphane Séjourné et son équipe.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Generative artificial intelligence has arrived in Europe’s banks faster than almost anyone predicted, and it is already changing how the sector’s 2.6 million workers do their jobs. Read @euobserver.com on our research into the impact of AI in banking.
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Who profits from banking’s AI moment?
Generative artificial intelligence has arrived in Europe's banks faster than almost anyone predicted, and it is already changing how the sector's 2.6 million workers do their jobs. The difference betw...
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"If you fight...together...then you are visible." Over the last 4 episodes we've heard about the daily struggles, exhaustion, invisibility and structures that keep these burdens in place. In our final episode, cleaners tell us what resistance looks like. Listen now: @macrodosepod.bsky.social
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"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.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Our European Power and Organising Centre (EPOC) held a workshop with the @fnv.bsky.social organising team. Here's what they learned.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Next Monday, UNI Europa will host an event on franchising in the European Parliament with the support of @botengam.bsky.social to Europeanise the public debate on the impact of franchising on workers, communities and Europe’s service economy. Join us: www.uni-europa.org/towards-resp...
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Towards responsible franchising in Europe - UNI Europa
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This week, around 200 union leaders, worker representatives and experts gather in Copenhagen for UNI Europa’s ICTS sector conference, representing more than three million workers in telecommunications, IT, digital services, games and business services.
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European ICT trade unions set strategic course on AI and organising
200 union leaders meet in Copenhagen as artificial intelligence (AI), algorithmic management and digital business models reshape work.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
At the launch event of our #SaveOurPost campaign in Brussels today, together with consumer groups and EU lawmakers like @leilachaibi.bsky.social, Johan Danielsson and @liandersson.bsky.social, we called on @ec.europa.eu to safeguard postal jobs and make this essential public service future-proof.
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 15/04/2026
Die Post ist ein unterschätztes öffentliches Gut, europaweit steht sie unter Druck. Die EU hat jetzt die Chance auf eine Reform.
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 15/04/2026
"El servicio postal debe seguir siendo accesible para todos a precios asequibles. (...) Hay una competencia desleal basada en quién puede exprimir más a los repartidores." Una tribuna de Oliver Roethig y Dimitris Theodorakis, de la unión sindical UNI Europa. ctxt.es/es/20260401/...
Foto de una furgoneta de Correos.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In 1489, the Thurn and Taxis family had an imperial monopoly to carry the mail of Europe’s elites. 500 years later, that network has become a public service – but its status is now at risk in the place where it was born: Brussels. Our op-ed in @euobserver.com.
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How to save Europe’s postal services – or let them die like Denmark’s
In Denmark, it is already too late. The postal service has ended after 400 years and with it 1,500 jobs. Letters are now delivered at high cost by a single private logistics company with a monopoly ov...
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The European Commission's proposal for procurement reform is imminent. Join us tomorrow for the first-ever European Procurement Summit to hear from workers, businesses and civil society about the stakes. Only a few places left. Register now.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Oliver Roethig said: “Far too many essential workers go home without a living wage, without a collective agreement. This is a policy failure – and the European Commission must remedy it by promoting collective bargaining in public procurement.” Full summary:
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Unions, businesses and civil society join forces to stop a “race to the bottom” in public contracts
The first-ever European Procurement Summit saw a coalition of unions, businesses and civil society call for making social criteria like collective bargaining mandatory in EU public procurement legisla...
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We agreed on the need for a simplified, not deregulated European framework to use the public purse’s enormous spending power for good jobs and quality goods and services.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
As the European Commission prepares to reform the rules governing over 2 trillion euros in annual public procurement, UNI Europa brought together a coalition of unions, businesses, civil society and lawmakers for the first-ever Procurement Summit in Brussels today.
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S&D Group @socialistsanddemocrats.eu · 08/04/2026
We support the action of trade unions for socially responsible public procurement focused on people and quality jobs. It is unacceptable that public money continues to fuel exploitation. Instead, it must ensure good working conditions and support companies that respect collective agreements.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Every year, EU public authorities spend over €2 trillion on goods and services. But the system for awarding these contracts to private companies is broken. We are here to fix it. Join us at the Procurement Summit next week on 14 April in Brussels. Register: www.uni-europa.org/meetings/eur...
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Daniel Kopp @danielkopp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Cleaners at London Heathrow have begun a strike that could last until the end of the year. Essential reading by my colleague Mark Bergfeld on their fight against a race to the bottom.
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Heathrow Cleaners Deserve More Than the Bare Minimum
Cleaners at London Heathrow have begun a strike that could last until the end of the year. While subcontractors pay them only the legal minimum, they’re demanding that the airport live up to its procl...
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
You can’t feed a family on 16 hours a week. Yet, this is the brutal reality for commerce workers – especially women – trapped in “involuntary part-time” work. This insecurity fuels the gender pay gap and pension poverty. We demand sustainable jobs and real worker power over hours and schedules.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
UNI Europa expresses its solidarity with Portugal's workers who have launched their first general strike in 12 years today. This historic mobilisation is a legitimate and necessary response to an unjust labour reform proposed by Portugal's government.
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UNI Europa stands in solidarity with Portugal’s workers on strike
This is the Portuguese labour movement's first general strike in 12 years, directed against an unjust labour reform.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“The EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap is testament to a growing European consensus on public procurement. The Commission acknowledges that promoting collective bargaining in public contracts can build quality jobs for workers across Europe,” said UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig.
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EU Commission commits to use public procurement for quality jobs
The EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap commits the EU Commission to present a public procurement framework that strengthens collective bargaining.
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Axelle Van Wynsberghe @axelle-vw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
AI shouldn’t come at the cost of workers and the environment ! Over 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter warning that the accelerated approach to AI development could cause a “staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth”. 🌎 Another reason to #MakeAmazonPay
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Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.
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Wouter van de Klippe @woutervandeklippe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My newest for @euobserver.com follows the story of securing rights for food delivery workers after Spain's passing of the landmark Rider Law. While the law was a major step, the process that followed was lengthy and saw years of falsely classified self-employment for these workers.
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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
In Belgien haben die Gewerkschaften den Sozialstaat besser verteidigt als in den meisten anderen europäischen Ländern. Jetzt soll ein dreitägiger Streik die neuesten Kürzungspläne verhindern.
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Belgiens Gewerkschaften streiken gegen die Regierung
In Belgien haben die Gewerkschaften den Sozialstaat besser verteidigt als in den meisten anderen europäischen Ländern. Jetzt soll ein dreitägiger Streik die neuesten Kürzungspläne verhindern.
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Nina Scholz @ninascholz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In Deutschland warnt der DGB vor Konflikten wegen Sozialkürzungen, in Belgien führen die Gewerkschaften die Konflikte an. Heute hat ein dreitägiger Generalstreik gegen die Sparpläne der Regierung mit einem breiten Branchenbündnis begonnen.
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Belgiens Gewerkschaften streiken gegen die Regierung
In Belgien haben die Gewerkschaften den Sozialstaat besser verteidigt als in den meisten anderen europäischen Ländern. Jetzt soll ein dreitägiger Streik die neuesten Kürzungspläne verhindern.
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Wouter van de Klippe @woutervandeklippe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Nice piece here by @danielkopp.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the Belgian labour movement's impressive efforts to block the gov's austerity program. Massive three-day strike starting today organized by the country's unions.
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In Belgium, Labor and the Government Face a Showdown
Organized labor has been more effective at defending the welfare state in Belgium than in most European countries. After recent actions resisting austerity plans, a three-day strike this week seeks to...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/11/2025
As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. wapo.st/4paBuuT
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 29/10/2025
Tech firms are spending more than ever on lobbying the European Union amid mounting opposition to the bloc’s digital rules, according to new analysis.
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Big Tech ups lobbying firepower, €€ in Brussels
American tech companies have piled into EU capital with bigger budgets and beefed-up teams.
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Daniel Kopp @danielkopp.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Read my interview with @uaw.org organiser and former autoworker Jeremy — out now in English.
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Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It's easy to mock the French for seeming to want unlimited government spending. I've done it myself. But I sympathise with their anger: France is an underfunded social democracy crossed with an oligarchy. Me @financialtimes.com on France's undertaxed billionaires - close to Macron on.ft.com/4qwaFDh
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Time to guillotine France’s super-rich tax breaks
[FREE TO READ] Does the country need a wealth tax?
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This week, a historic 140,000 workers from across all of Belgium protested the government's cuts to pensions, salaries and the welfare state.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
BREAKING🇪🇺: After the European Parliament adopted a report on public procurement today, we call on the Commission to ensure that public money is only given to companies whose workers are covered by collective agreements.
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EU Commission must ensure public contracts support collective bargaining
After EU Parliament vote, EU rules must ensure public money is only given to companies whose workers are covered by collective agreements.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In her #SOTEU speech, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu again stressed the need for a so-called “28th regime” for innovative companies. But a new @etui.bsky.social analysis confirms what we have been saying all along: the proposal is unnecessary and harmful.
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28th regime not necessary and harmful, ETUI study confirms
A new policy brief confirms UNI Europa’s position: the EU proposal for a “28th company law regime” is unnecessary and harmful.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
BREAKING: European unions representing 45 million workers across Europe just sent a letter to EU High Representative Kaja Kallas demanding decisive and principled EU action on Gaza.
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European unions call for more decisive action by the EU on Gaza
European unions representing 45 million workers across Europe sent a letter to High Representative Kallas demanding urgent EU action on Gaza.
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IndustriAll Europe @industrialleurope.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The EU-US trade deal averts a tariff war but comes at a high cost for jobs, industry & fair trade. Unions urge a strong political response, democratic scrutiny & investment in Europe’s industrial and tech sovereignty. news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/1334 @judekd.bsky.social @ibarthes.bsky.social
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EU-US deal: damage limitation in the short term but no long-term strategy
The EU-US trade deal averts a tariff war but comes at a high cost for Europe, threatening jobs, industrial strength, and fair-trade principles. IndustriAll Europe calls for a strong political response...
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 16/07/2025
🚨It’s been a year since Amazon workers in India said: 🥵“It’s too hot in the warehouse.” 📦So… did Amazon fix it? 😡Not really. ✊🏿That's why workers are organizing with Amazon India Workers Union #MakeAmazonPay
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
BREAKING: The European Parliament’s Employment Committee decided to maintain the Amazon lobby ban and reject a closed-door hearing with Amazon representatives. It also committed to holding another hearing and organise a visit to Amazon warehouses.
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European Parliament maintains Amazon lobby ban
The European Parliament’s Employment Committee decided to maintain the Amazon lobby ban and reject a closed-door hearing with Amazon representatives.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
UNI Europa and EFCI, the European social partners representing workers and employers in the cleaning sector, call on the @ec.europa.eu to promote daytime cleaning and revise the EU public procurement directives in its Quality Jobs Roadmap.
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UNI Europa and EFCI on the EU's Quality Jobs Roadmap
UNI Europa and EFCI, the European social partners representing workers and employers in the cleaning sector, submitted a joint response to the EU’s Quality Jobs Roadmap.
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Stan De Spiegelaere @standespiegelaere.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Vandaag een tip van de sluier voor @knack.be: "De Democratie redden begint op het werk" www.knack.be/nieuws/belgi... @denktankminerva.be
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'De Democratie redden begint op het werk'
Verschillende verklaringen worden aangedragen: desinformatie op sociale media, Russische inmenging, aanhoudende economische onzekerheid, groeiende
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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Vor rund fünfzig Jahren gründeten belgische Reinigungskräfte ihre eigene Genossenschaft: Sie fegten ihren Chef weg und verdreifachten ihre Löhne. Die Regisseurin Coline Grando hat diese inspirierende Erfolgsgeschichte auf die Leinwand geholt.
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Wie man den eigenen Chef feuert
Vor rund fünfzig Jahren gründeten belgische Reinigungskräfte ihre eigene Genossenschaft: Sie fegten ihren Chef weg und verdreifachten ihre Löhne. Die Regisseurin Coline Grando hat diese inspirierende Erfolgsgeschichte auf die Leinwand geholt.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"They say we're the ones protecting the internet, keeping kids safe online," the Filipino worker said, "But we are not protected enough." Content moderators — organised in our global alliance — spoke to Reuters about the mental trauma from their work.
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Content moderators for Big Tech unite to tackle mental trauma | Context by TRF
Outsourced and out of sight, content moderators call on Big Tech to address the mental trauma of content moderation
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
While Jeff Bezos held a lavish wedding in Venice, Amazon refused to send a high-level representative to testify in the European Parliament. This is an insult to its workers and our democratic institutions. We demand an end to Amazon's contracts with the European institutions.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In one of the largest demonstrations in recent years, over 25,000 workers took to the streets of Luxembourg yesterday. Solidarity with all workers fighting for decent pensions and collective agreements.
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Thousands join union protest march through capital against government reforms
Demonstrators packed the streets to oppose a series of planned changes in areas such as pensions and Sunday opening hours
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“If an Amazon worker would have behaved this way towards Amazon management, they would have already been fired three times over,” said UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig, in a letter addressed to MEPs on Wednesday.
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US tech giant Amazon accused of snubbing European Parliament again
Amazon did not show up to a European Parliament hearing on working conditions inside its warehouses.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
BREAKING: Amazon has failed to show up in front of the European Parliament for the third time. UNI Europa demands tougher EU sanctions. #MakeAmazonPay
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After no-show, unions call for tougher EU sanctions on Amazon
Amazon has failed to show up in front of the European Parliament for the third time. UNI Europa demands tougher EU sanctions.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
And pay your workers decent wages.
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Cleaners like Hayat have seen their working conditions erode over past decades. Employers haven't bid for public contracts because of lowest-price competition. MEPs in the Parliament's IMCO Committee, we all want stronger collective bargaining in public procurement rules – and we want it now.
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