🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️LGBTI+ rights are workers' rights 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ On 17 May, the International Day Against LGBTI+ Discrimination - #IDAHOBIT - we stand with our LGBTI+ siblings in our global union family. https://t.co/QHp7tVu87z
🇮🇪 Solidarity with Meta content moderators at Covalen in Ireland as the outsourcing company plans to lay off 700 workers.
“What is happening in Dublin today is also happening in every corner of the globe. Tech companies are treating the workers whose labour and data helped build AI as disposable. To fight back, it’s absolutely critical that workers organize and demand notice about the introduction of AI, training linked to employment and a plan for their futures. Workers should also have the right to refuse to train their AI replacements,” said UNI Global Union General Secretary, Christy Hoffman. “It’s time the likes of Meta and TikTok took responsibility for the workers who made their platforms possible, not discard them without a second thought – and they should think carefully about what is lost when experience and human judgement are thrown out the door.”
Digital and Techworkers Alliance (DATA), which is part of UNI’s Irish affiliate, the Communications Workers’ Union, represents several hundred workers at the outsourcing company.
UNI condemns the U.S. attack on Venezuela. General Secretary @CHoffmanUNI says:
This restoration of 19th-century colonialism is classic bullying, intended to make an example of Venezuela in order to instill fear across the region and the world.
https://t.co/jhnQDAu2KG
Desde UNI Américas condenamos la agresión contra Venezuela y reafirmamos nuestro compromiso con la paz, la soberanía y la autodeterminación de los pueblos.
#Telus workers from Canada and Turkey find common ground in their experiences of poor treatment at the Canadian telecommunications and outsourcing giant - and join forces to improve working conditions. #StrongerTogether ✊👇
https://t.co/ajaGuVHtt8
#TikTok plans on laying off 150 content moderators, and now it's trying to intimidate their supporters.
Workers’ rights are not optional - #TikTok should stop its bad behaviour and start negotiating with verdi now! ✊ https://t.co/ht10i5E4Bf
📢 From Croatia to Latin America, unions are united!
🇭🇷The Croatian Telecommunications Trade Union workers call on América Móvil to engage in dialogue and respect trade union rights across its operations.
🇲🇰A1 Macedonia joins the global call to America Movil: it’s time to commit to a Global Agreement with @uniglobalunion and guarantee decent work for all!
🇳🇮FESC Nicaragua le recuerda a América Móvil los pilares del diálogo social:
🫱🏽🫲🏿negociación colectiva
🦺protección sindical
✔️mecanismos para resolver conflictos
Y se suma al llamado internacional por un acuerdo global✊🏽
🌍Hoy, sindicatos de todo el mundo hacen un llamado a América Móvil para firmar un acuerdo global con @uniglobalunion
🇦🇷@foeesitra como representante de trabajadorxs de América Móvil @ClaroArgentina se suman a esta acción para avanzar hacia relaciones laborales más sostenibles.
Today, an international delegation of union representatives from Türkiye, Canada and other countries calls for an urgent, global dialogue with @TELUS, the major Canadian multinational telecommunications and business services company.
https://t.co/4Ccygd11cd
🚨UPDATE: @AdalahEnglish is reporting that all #Handala crew members - including UNI colleague Hatem Aouini - are out of Israeli custody.
We must ramp up pressure on world leaders to take urgent, decisive action to bring the suffering in #Gaza to an end.
Erik Carrión manda un mensaje de apoyo los trabajadores de TikTok en Berlín, van a despedir a 150 compañeros/as, es uno de los centros de moderación de contenidos de la red social y lo quieren ir sustituyendo por IA.
@uniglobalunion@_verdi#ByteDancersNotBystanders
Our @uniglobalunion colleague Hatem Al-Aouini was on board the #Handala when it intercepted by Israel last night. While our international institutions are paralyzed, these brave activists are taking bold steps to deliver life saving aid to Gazans - https://t.co/awi2Gl6Cgl
📣 Workers in El Salvador made history by forming the country’s first industry-wide union for call centre employees SITOES
🌍✊Backed by UNI, this win built momentum in our fight to organize digital workers and push for better pay, fair breaks and against toxic workloads.
We’re calling for a binding agreement with #AmericaMovil that ensures:
✅Right to organize & bargain
✅Minimum standards for all workers, including safety on the job, living wages and job security
✅ Procedures for resolving labour disputes with dialogue
✅ Protection for union reps
📣 “#AmericaMovil is growing and generating huge profits – but that growth must not come at the expense of workers’ rights," says @Marcio_Monzane from @uniamericas as unions demand global agreement.
https://t.co/7gKZ9tdZka
✊🌎 14 trade unions across 12 countries — from Argentina to Austria — are joining forces to demand a global agreement with telecom giant #AmericaMovil.
Profits are booming. International growth is accelerating. But workers' rights must not be left behind. 📶🧵