Forward through collective bargaining September 2021 #AmazonPanopticon Our recent report entitled The Amazon Panopticon, sheds light on the intrusive and all-encompassing Amazon worker surveillance systems. It is now available in 9 languages. This month, we will be releasing an animation on the same topic. Over the summer, Amazon also opened its first warehouse in the Netherlands. FNV anticipated this by laying out their expectations of Amazon. As Oliver Roethig outlined in his message of welcome, they join a growing coalition around the world who are making Amazon accountable to workers & our democracies. Make sure to sign up to UNI’s dedicated newsletter to stay up to date. #ProcuringDecentWork Momentum is building to ban corporations that refuse to sign collective bargaining agreements with their workers from receiving public contracts. Following the launch of our European Parliament work, 40 MEPs from 4 different parliamentary groups have already endorsed the campaign over the summer. Together with its affiliates, UNI Europa is engaging with many more MEPs to sign up to the campaign. UNI Europa received an answer from the EU Commission (available from here) following our letter co-signed by the elected leaders of 106 workers’ unions from 29 countries calling on the EU to change public procurement rules to guarantee workers a say. We are also working to expose concrete examples which demonstrate that current legislation does not deliver for working people. We recently looked at how workers at one cleaning company pushed back against fire and rehire attempts which are spreading in outsourcing companies. Make sure you show your support and stay up to date with the campaign by signing here and spreading the word. EU Consultations UNI Europa has put together three submissions to EU Commission consultations: on the AI Act on the review of the EU’s sectoral social dialogue on self-employment In case you missed it Beating back fire-and-rehire through organising Broad Alliance in defence of Radio Television Madrid and media freedom <!– –> Upcoming events 3 September: Commerce – Digital Transformation – project steering group meeting 8-9 September: ICTS – Ericsson Global Trade Union Network 9 September: Commerce – E-commerce project steering group meeting 17 September: Haire & Beauty – personal services: sectoral social dialogue committee working group meeting 21 September: ICTS – UNI Europa ICTS Steering Committee 23 September: Cross-sector – UNI Europa Management Committee 28 September: Cross-sector – Social media and media training with Central & Eastern Europe affiliates 29 September: Commerce – E-commerce workshops on Poland, Hungary, Spain & Italy 30 September: Commerce – Social Dialogue meeting 1 October: Graphical & Packaging – capacity building Croatia seminar 5 October: Commerce – E-commerce project steering group meeting 7 October: Cross-sector workshop – Best practice in using social media to support organising and collective bargaining campaigns. 12 October: ICTS – UNI Europa ICTS Conference Steering Committee 12 October: Finance – Social Dialoge Insurance Internal Working Group Meeting 13 October: Finance – Insurance Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee Plenary Meeting 13-14 October: ICTS – UNI Europa ICTS Conference 14 October: Cross-sector workshop – Using Facebook to generate leads in organising campaigns 19 October: Commerce – E-commerce training on guidelines 19 October: Temporary Agency Wokers – Social Dialogue Committee Plenary 20 October: Cleaning – Social Dialogue Plenary 21 October: Cross-sector workshop – Generating member engagement through instant messaging 26 October: Cross sector – Training for Central & Eastern Europe affiliates: designing and implementing comprehensive campaigns 27 October: Private Security – Social Dialogue Meeting 28 October: Cross-sector workshop – How to set up an organising and bargaining strategy