Daniel Kopp

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT

Big Tech ups lobbying firepower, €€ in Brussels American tech companies have piled into EU capital with bigger budgets and beefed-up teams.

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.

Read my interview with @uaw.org organiser and former autoworker Jeremy — out now in English.

Time to guillotine France’s super-rich tax breaks [FREE TO READ] Does the country need a wealth tax?

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

This week, a historic 140,000 workers from across all of Belgium protested the government's cuts to pensions, salaries and the welfare state.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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
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🚨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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vandaag een tip van de sluier voor @knack.be: "De Democratie redden begint op het werk"

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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.

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.

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

“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.

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.

BREAKING: Amazon has failed to show up in front of the European Parliament for the third time. UNI Europa demands tougher EU sanctions. #MakeAmazonPay

And pay your workers decent wages.

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.