Daniel Kopp

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.
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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.

European unions launch billboards for EU procurement reform The billboards see workers calling on MEPs to strengthen collective bargaining in the EU’s ongoing efforts to reform public procurement.

“We deserve fair pay & good jobs.”

Today, European unions representing 45 million workers launched a campaign in the Brussels metro, with essential workers calling on MEPs in the IMCO Committee to strengthen collective bargaining in the ongoing efforts to reform public procurement.

Social public procurement could cancel out Trump’s tariffs Linking public contracts to collective bargaining could improve the European Union's social and economic resilience.

BREAKING: A strong reform of public procurement that links public contracts to collective bargaining could help cancel out Trump’s tariffs and boost growth.

This comes as the EU Parliament's IMCO Committee drafts an own-initiative report on procurement reform.

Christian labour movement calls for no exemptions to capital gains tax and for a boycott of products from Israel | VRT NWS: news The president of the umbrella organisation of the Christian labour movement Beweging.net has said the Federal Government should not allow any exemptions when it planned capital gains tax is introduced...

Happy Rerum Novarum!

The ‘Startup and Scaleup Strategy’, published today by @ec.europa.eu, signals plans to attack collective bargaining and curtail labour law.

It proposes to introduce a ‘28th regime’, that would allow startups to opt out of national labour law and instead operate under lower EU-wide standards.

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Europe can’t outspend China in the Global South, so it markets ‘values’ and ‘equal partnerships’ instead. But the €300b Global Gateway is rooted in colonialism and centuries of exploitation. A thread:

UNI Europa stands with Belgium's non-profit workers on strike UNI Europa stands with workers in the care, welfare and sociocultural sectors demonstrating in Brussels for more resources and attention.

Belgium’s government plans major cuts to social security. But this will only worsen the shortage of caregivers, caretakers, educators and counsellors.

UNI Europa stands with these workers striking in Brussels today for a well-resourced social system.

Germany reports surge in extreme-right crime The sharp rise comes amid a record-high number of “politically motivated” crimes.

Extreme-right crime in Germany surged by nearly 50 percent as “politically motivated” offences reached a record high last year.

“El trabajo de limpieza condiciona todos los demás. Sin ellas, nadie más puede trabajar” Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente

‼️ Sin limpiadoras no hay universidad. En los 70 lo demostraron con autogestión, dignidad y lucha colectiva.

🔴 Hoy, la precariedad manda. ¿Y si volvemos a barrer desde abajo?

Una entrevista de Daniel Kopp con Coline Grando, directora del documental ‘La escoba liberada’

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Today, We Remember Striking Workers in Occupied Europe On this day in 1941, workers in Belgium launched one of the first strikes in Nazi-ruled Europe. Tens of thousands of strikers risked dire repression to stand up against poverty wages — and showed the ...

On this day in 1941, workers in Belgium launched one of the first strikes in Nazi-ruled Europe—the so-called “Strike of the 100,000”.

They fought against poverty wages—and showed the working class can resist occupation.

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YouTube video by UNI Europa How lowest price tendering hurts essential workers

"The hospital cleaners received work clothes that still had blood stains on them."

The EU's broken procurement rules lead to a race for the lowest price.

For essential workers like cleaners, this means dirty work clothes, bad wages and overwork.

The rules must change — now.

Working for an NGO? Join us!

NGO workers joined Belgian unions' general strike on 31 March with an amazing NGO Picket. Now Belgian unions announced their new agenda - we'll discuss how NGO workers can join the struggle against Arizona government.

🗓️ 23 April, Weds - 18.00
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UNI Europa urges EU to impose ‘Amazon Tax’ in response to US trade war - UNI Europa Amazon continues to benefit from double unfair economic advantages in the EU: disproportionately low tax rates and lucrative public contracts funded by European taxpayers.

With the US trade war escalating, we call on the European Commission to introduce a digital services tax, or ‘Amazon Tax’.

Amazon benefits from a double unfair economic advantages in the EU: low tax rates and lucrative public contracts.

This has to end now.

As US-EU trade war escalates, UNI calls for ending Amazon’s access to EU public contracts - UNI Europa We cannot afford to place our digital sovereignty, workers’ rights, and democratic values in the hands of a corporation that has repeatedly demonstrated hostility to the European model.

As the US-EU trade war escalates, UNI Europa urges European institutions to undertake a comprehensive reassessment of public procurement contracts awarded to American companies — including contracts awarded to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Our full statement:

Why Belgian Workers Are Striking Today - The Real Cost of the Arizona Coalition’s Austerity Agenda Belgian workers today protest deep cuts and the government’s refusal to tax the wealthy as needed.

BELGIUM: Why Belgian Workers Are Striking Today – The Real Cost of the Arizona Coalition’s Austerity Agenda www.socialeurope.eu/why-belgian-...

An indignant but joyous general strike in Belgium today.

Workers put up over 700 picket lines all across the country to protest the Arizona government’s plans to make us all work longer for less money.

Next national day of action: 29 April.

«En Flandre, même Vooruit ne peut pas vraiment soutenir le mouvement de grève par le biais du cadrage médiatique – ils restent silencieux ou doivent rester silencieux et espèrent que cela passera.» via @lesoir.be www.lesoir.be/665334/artic...

AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better

“Simply put: I don’t know where this endless march of shortening the act of living leads us to. AI promises to free up time. But if what it spares us from is learning from our friends, writing, painting and exploring the world, then what, actually, are we meant to do with that time?”