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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. Repost not endorsement

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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 9h
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. ow.ly/5M6850ZSZYE
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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.
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How Norway’s hairdressers won big after threatening to strike
After a two-year fight and a credible strike threat, Norway’s hairdressers win advance sick pay, higher wages and paid unsocial hours.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 25/09/2026
🎉 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!
Text box announcing games company King signed collective agreement with Swedish unions, and highlights some wins there. Red backgroun on the back.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 24/09/2026
🇹🇭 We're proud to support creative workers in Thailand, who are drafting the first-ever guidelines for a fair contract in the sector. ✊ ow.ly/o3qj50ZR4bR
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 23/09/2026
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-...
Hands holding LGBTI Pride Flag with protest with a red filter in background. Headline says: Global Unions: Solidarity with LGBTI+ organizations in Turkiye.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 16/09/2026
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. ow.ly/zujF50ZOllT
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 15/09/2026
🚨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...
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A Global Security Giant is Failing the People Who Guard India's Malls, Offices and Building Sites
The conditions G4S guards describe are an abuse of their basic rights, as workers and as humans.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 14/09/2026
⚠️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
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 14/09/2026
🚨"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
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16-hour days: G4S guards tell of exploitation across Africa
Report reveals hunger, debt and hazards faced by G4S employees in SA, Uganda and the DRC
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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.
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EU Procurement Act could see €2.5 trillion public spending improve workers’ livelihoods
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.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 04/09/2026
✊ 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. ow.ly/l7OG50ZJimp
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 01/09/2026
🚨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...
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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.
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A positive example for others to follow
The EU has a historic opportunity to improve workers’ livelihoods by setting an example in how it chooses to spend public money
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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.
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Microsoft workers in Czechia win first collective agreement
In under two years since setting up their union, workers at Microsoft in the Czech Republic have won a landmark collective bargaining agreement.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 26/08/2026
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. ow.ly/eH9150ZFHlq
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 24/08/2026
📢 UNI condemns abhorrent Russian attack on Ukrainian shopping centre. Full statement here: uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-condemn…
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 20/08/2026
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: uniglobalunion.org/news/making-ai-w…
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Making AI work for working people: UNI’s Christy Hoffman and SDA’s Gerard Dwyer in conversation, Part 1
In April 2026 the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA), Australia’s retail and warehousing union, released For All of Us: Making AI Work for Working People, a report it commissioned from the John Curtin Research Centre. In response, UNI President and National Secretary-Treasurer of the SDA, Gerard Dwyer, spoke with UNI Global Union General
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 19/08/2026
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.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 12/08/2026
🌍 Happy International Youth Day! Let's hear from Crisnalda Nhamucale, UNI Africa Youth president from SINECOSSE union in 🇲🇿 Mozambique ✊
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 11/08/2026
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. ow.ly/3L4x50ZyBRs
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 11/08/2026
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...
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Unionized workers are bargaining with the bots
Collective bargaining can preserve jobs, pay and worker input as AI spreads.
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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Brilliant from @mayor.nyc.gov . Join the #MakeAmaonPay campaign @uniglobalunion.org @gmbcampaigns.bsky.social
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National Association of Letter Carriers @lettercarriers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 06/08/2026
“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...
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Labour board slams Amazon and orders first contract arbitration
VANCOUVER—Amazon suffered another legal setback in its fight against unionization in B.C. after the Labour Board bound the company to a first union collective agreement by binding arbitration.“Amazon ...
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 03/08/2026
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...
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As France’s Elders Swelter in the Heat, Postal Workers Come to the Rescue
To help prevent heat-related deaths, the French government has asked postal workers to check in on older people.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 31/07/2026
🌍Happy Africa Women's Day 🎉 "Gender equality is not a favour to be granted" says Rosemary Rauleka from our 🇿🇦 South African finance affiliate SASBO
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 31/07/2026
🌍 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.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 31/07/2026
🌍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.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 31/07/2026
🌍 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!"🎉
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 30/07/2026
✊ 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." ow.ly/EarQ50ZuzuF
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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 Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 29/07/2026
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. ow.ly/bpxA50ZtTQj
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Good Jobs First @goodjobsfirst.org · 23/07/2026
"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...
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Amazon, gig companies see spike in workers on SNAP and Medicaid, study shows
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 24/07/2026
📢 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. uniglobalunion.org/news/aldi-worker…
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UNI Europa @uni-europa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“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.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 22/07/2026
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...
Protesters at a rally hold a large red and white banner featuring monarch butterflies and stars. The banner reads in Spanish "Derechos de los inmigrantes y los trabajadores, una lucha una pelea!" and in English "Immigrant and worker's rights: one struggle one fight!" Bold red headline text overlaid reads: "UNI calls for UN to fully recognize migrant workers' right to organize."
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TeSplendente @tesplendente.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🚩 Learn from the mistakes of Denmark.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 20/07/2026
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. ow.ly/NbT850ZpJRN
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 17/07/2026
🎉🇵🇭 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. ow.ly/Qezr50ZoVkS
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 17/07/2026
Solidarity with workers at Concentrix Tunisia and their union #UGTT as they gear up for a 21 July strike. The contact centre workers are set to walk off the job to defend their wages, their rights and respect for the commitments made by management. ow.ly/gt3U50ZoOS3
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 15/07/2026
In Argentina, unions aren't taking it lying down. UNI's Christy Hoffman joined La Bancaria's congress marking 100+ years of activism, a model far-right President Milei wants to weaken. And it's not just Argentina. Unions across the Americas are pushing back. ow.ly/XGtz50ZnMXg
Large outdoor union rally in Buenos Aires, with crowds, flags and balloons in front of a clock tower and a green "Sindicato de Camioneros" banner. Overlaid red text reads: "In Argentina and the Americas, unions fight right-wing attack." UNI Global Union logo in the corner.Quote from Christy Hoffman about Argentine unions standing united against intimidation and gaining global support.Christy Hoffman speaking into a microphone at a panel event supporting Argentina's bank workers' union La Bancaria.Large crowd of protesters marching in a city street holding banners and flags advocating for workers' rights and union support.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 15/07/2026
In Argentina, unions aren't taking it lying down. UNI's Christy Hoffman joined La Bancaria's congress marking 100+ years of activism, a model far-right President Milei wants to weaken. And it's not just Argentina. Unions across the Americas are pushing back. ow.ly/XGtz50ZnMXg
Large outdoor union rally in Buenos Aires, with crowds, flags and balloons in front of a clock tower and a green "Sindicato de Camioneros" banner. Overlaid red text reads: "In Argentina and the Americas, unions fight right-wing attack." UNI Global Union logo in the corner.Quote from Christy Hoffman about Argentine unions standing united against intimidation and gaining global support.Christy Hoffman speaking into a microphone at a panel event supporting Argentina's bank workers' union La Bancaria.Large crowd of protesters marching in a city street holding banners and flags advocating for workers' rights and union support.
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 15/07/2026
So many details in @darakerr.bsky.social's new article show why workers need transparency and the power to negotiate how #AI is used on the job. At Meta. At Amazon. At every single workplace. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims
Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 14/07/2026
Call centre workers in Italy and Spain are striking to demand protections and real say in how #AI reshapes their jobs. uniglobalunion.org/news/workers-ita…
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 13/07/2026
Unions are not against technology. We are against technology being used to exploit workers. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 13/07/2026
Extreme heat is a workplace hazard. Workers everywhere are feeling it right now. 71% of the cleaners and security guards we surveyed said the climate crisis is affecting their health. The people on the door when it's 42°C. 🧵
A security guard in a blue uniform stands outside a tall building, holding a water bottle wrapped in wet cloth to keep it cool. Bold red text over the image reads: "Extreme heat is a hazard on the job." UNI Global Union logo in the top left corner.
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
AI and mental health is a popular topic but often centers on the mental health harms of chatbots & imagined potential of AI in mental health care. What is under-discussed is the mental health crisis, faced by AI supply chain workers, manufactured by corporations in the development of these tools.
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Fédération des Services CFDT @cfdtservices.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@syndicalismehebdo.fr revient sur la mobilisation des travailleurs des Services (Propreté, sécurité, restauration collective ) organisée par @uni-europa.bsky.social à #Paris pour obtenir l'introduction de critères sociaux dans les appels d'offre. www.syndicalismehebdo.fr/article/refo...
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Réforme européenne des marchés publics : la CFDT Services a manifesté devant Bercy - Syndicalisme Hebdo | CFDT
À l’appel d’UNI Europa, la Fédération syndicale européenne des travailleurs des services, la CFDT Services, avec d’autres…
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 09/07/2026
Ready to be inspired? These are powerful, must-hear stories from workers about what they need to improve their jobs, their lives and our communities.
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