Oliver Roethig

We were at least 75,000 on the streets of Brussels today: unions, women's organisations, citizens movements, students, schoolchildren. The whole of society was present to defend pensions, purchasing power and a vision of society built on solidarity.

Everything is becoming more expensive. And the Belgian government is doubling down on cuts to pensions and wages — instead of taxing wealth. But workers and unions say: enough is enough. We join them for a major demonstration in Brussels tomorrow. uni-europa.org/news/belgium-d…

On #EuropeDay, 76 years after Schuman's Paris speech, Europe can take neither peace nor unity for granted. In this context, UNI Europa's @ORoethig calls for a trade unionism and politics that tackles the challenges of war and the cost of living. uni-europa.org/news/europe-da…

Europe still needs a universal postal service that delivers letters and parcels affordably to every single address. That requires a fair system where all delivery companies contribute to the public system. @Euractiv on our campaign to #SaveOurPost. euractiv.com/news/explained…

A major strike at @deutschetelekom is sweeping across Germany. In the last two days, 7,500 workers took industrial action a 6.6 per cent pay rise. Today the strike is moving from north to south. Solidarity with the workers and their union ver.di. verdi.de/geld-tarif/tar…

“It’s incredibly frustrating not to be able to do my job the way I think is best – simply because I don’t have the time.” Katharina worked as a nurse in intensive care in Austria. She never felt she had enough time: for her patients, for her colleagues and for herself.

This week, around 200 union leaders, worker representatives and experts gather in Copenhagen for UNI Europa’s ICTS sector conference, representing more than three million workers in telecommunications, IT, digital services, games and business services. uni-europa.org/news/european-…

🚨1.8 million good jobs, one essential public service, a network that connects us all - but Europe's postal services are under threat. Sign the petition to SAVE OUR POST! ow.ly/lhsw50YNlqF #saveourpost

⚠️ We want to save Europe’s postal services – not let them die like Denmark’s. We're calling on the EU to make rules that protect 1.8 million good jobs and set a level playing field for delivery services — on pay, on service, on access. Today we're saying that universal postal service is a right and must remain exactly that: universal. Check out the opinion piece by UNI's Oliver Roethig and Dimitris Theodorakis in the EU Observer today: euobserver.com/208473/how-to-…

Europe's postal services are under threat. 1.8 million posties could lose their jobs. And we won't be able to send and receive mail at affordable prices anymore. But the upcoming EU Delivery Act could prevent that. Sign now our petition to #SaveOurPost.

Read our full press release here: uni-europa.org/news/unions-la…

And sign the petition to #SaveOurPost: actionnetwork.org/petitions/save…

At the launch event of our #SaveOurPost campaign in Brussels today, together with consumer groups and EU lawmakers like @leilachaibi, @johandanielsson and @liandersson, we called on @EU_Commission to to safeguard postal jobs and make this essential public service future-proof.

I wrote about why we need to save Europe's postal service.

@D_Theodorakis @ORoethig Link zum Gastbeitrag 👇 surplusmagazin.de/post-reform-eu…

Die Post ist ein unterschätztes öffentliches Gut, europaweit steht sie unter Druck. Die EU hat jetzt die Chance auf eine Reform, schreiben @D_Theodorakis und @ORoethig.

@ORoethig said: “Far too many essential workers go home without a living wage, without a collective agreement. This is a policy failure – and the European Commission must remedy it by promoting collective bargaining in public procurement.” Full summary: uni-europa.org/news/ahead-of-…

We agreed on the need for a simplified, not deregulated European framework to use the public purse’s enormous spending power for good jobs and quality goods and services.

As the European Commission prepares to reform the rules governing over 2 trillion euros in annual public procurement, UNI Europa brought together a coalition of unions, businesses, civil society and lawmakers for the first-ever Procurement Summit in Brussels today.

Join us next week for this important discussion about how we can fix Europe's broken procurement system.