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.

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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🎉 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!

🇹🇭 We're proud to support creative workers in Thailand, who are drafting the first-ever guidelines for a fair contract in the sector. ✊ https://ow.ly/o3qj50ZR4bR

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.

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-...

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. https://ow.ly/zujF50ZOllT

🚨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...

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 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

🚨"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

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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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.

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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✊ 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. https://ow.ly/l7OG50ZJimp

🚨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...

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.

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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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.

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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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. https://ow.ly/eH9150ZFHlq

📢 UNI condemns abhorrent Russian attack on Ukrainian shopping centre. Full statement here: https://uniglobalunion.org/news/uni-condemns-abhorrent-russian-attack-on-ukrainian-shopping-centre/

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: https://uniglobalunion.org/news/making-ai-work-for-working-people-part-1/

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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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.

🌍 Happy International Youth Day! Let's hear from Crisnalda Nhamucale, UNI Africa Youth president from SINECOSSE union in 🇲🇿 Mozambique ✊

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. https://ow.ly/3L4x50ZyBRs

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...

Unionized workers are bargaining with the bots

Collective bargaining can preserve jobs, pay and worker input as AI spreads.

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Brilliant from @mayor.nyc.gov . Join the #MakeAmaonPay campaign @uniglobalunion.org @gmbcampaigns.bsky.social

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If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

“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...

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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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...

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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🌍Happy Africa Women's Day 🎉 "Gender equality is not a favour to be granted" says Rosemary Rauleka from our 🇿🇦 South African finance affiliate SASBO

🌍 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.

🌍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.

🌍 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!"🎉

✊ 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." https://ow.ly/EarQ50ZuzuF