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22/10/2026

BREAKING🇮🇸: In response to union pressure, Iceland’s government has issued stricter guidelines for public contracts for cleaning that strengthen collective agreements and measurable work targets.

In this video, Viðar Þorsteinsson, Director of Education and Membership Affairs at UNI-affiliated Efling, explains why Iceland's cleaners needed these changes so desperately.

UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig commented on the development: “Iceland’s new procurement guidelines shows why it is important that lawmakers listen to workers when writing public procurement rules. Effective consultation between social partners and governments improves working conditions for services workers and improves service quality for public institutions and citizens. We call on the European co-legislators to learn from Iceland’s example and ensure that EU procurement rules promote better jobs and collective bargaining.”

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20/10/2026

Should it be easier for US investment funds to buy European companies?

In September, we put that question – and others – to people protesting EU Inc., the new proposed EU company law, in Brussels.

And today, we’re mobilising outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg to “fix or sink EU Inc.”

15/10/2026

Spain’s bank workers going on strike today, 15 October, call for better wages and tech safeguards as a large majority reported mental health issues due increasing sales pressure and opaque algorithms.

According to a representative survey of 46,235 workers carried out by trade union CCOO Servicios throughout May 2026, almost 97 per cent of Spain’s bank workers reported a critical rise in workload and sales pressure over the past three years.

UNI Europa stands in solidarity with the workers on strike today.

Four in five bank workers in Spain say that unrealistic targets set by opaque algorithms are damaging their physical and mental health.

14/10/2026

Trade union leaders from across Europe denounced the social dumping of the European Commission's proposal for a new European company form – the EU Inc. – at the UNI Europa Executive Committee in Antwerp today.

We will be in Strasbourg next week, 20 October, to protest at the European Parliament to fix or sink EU Inc.

Join us.

13/10/2026

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09/10/2026

On today's World Post Day, Europe's 1.8 million postal workers call on the European institutions to deliver a fair postal reform. It must modernise postal networks, expand universal service to guarantee affordable parcel delivery for Europe's 450 million inhabitants and ensure private operator pay their fair share for the public network.

Support their demands by signing the petition to Save Our Post (link in comment).

07/10/2026

On this World Day of Decent Work, we stand with all the young people whose futures are threatened by the EU's deregulatory race-to-the-bottom.

Two weeks ago, we protested in Brussels against the proposal for an "EU Inc.", a new company form that risks slashing workers' rights and European sovereignty.

In two weeks, we will be back again on the streets. This time, we come together in Strasbourg as parliamentary discussions on the EU Inc. take place.

Join us and dozens of trade unions at 10am on 20 October in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to "fix or sink EU Inc."

06/10/2026

The eviction of the 87-year-old Maricarmen has brought a mass movement of workers and tenants on the streets across dozens of Spanish cities.

Now, Spain's biggest unions CCOO and UGT double down by announcing the country's first general strike in 14 years.

We stand with Spain's workers and their unions in the fight for “the right to housing and living wages to pay for it.”

30/09/2026

A few months ago, the Dutch government announced over €6 billion in cuts to social security. But after a series of escalating actions – from workplace assemblies and leafletting actions to centralised protests and a general strike on 9 September – the Dutch labour movement forced a government U-turn. This week, it scrapped its plan under the pressure from the streets and workplaces.

Any worker can lose their job. That’s why the labour movement built the collective structure of solidarity known as social security.

The proposed austerity measures would have undermined this safety net: the government planned to half the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 24 to 12 months, tightening eligibility requirements for unemployment benefits; saving over one billion on benefits for people unable to work and a €1.8 billion in structural cuts to public pensions.

UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig said: “All across Europe, governments are trying to make workers pay for the failures of governments and businesses. But our resistance against misguided anti-worker policies is working. From Portugal and Belgium to Germany and now the Netherlands, workers and their unions mobilise to protect our hard-won rights. The victory by the Dutch unions inspires us all to keep going and build a stronger labour movement.”

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 in Romania are systematically blocked by employers and the government. As of July 2026, the minimum wage in Romania is RON 4,325 (approximately €825 to €850 per month), one of the lowest in the European Union. These workers urgently need a raise.

The protestors demand the European Commission put pressure on the Romanian government to respect the EU Minimum Wage Directive by raising the minimum wage by 1 January 2027 and by unblocking sectoral collective bargaining in the private sector.

UNI Europa will keep supporting its Romanian affiliates until their demands are met.