Unia
| Unia Union (Syndicat Unia, Sindacato Unia)
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| legal form | society |
| founding | October 16, 2004 |
| Seat | Bern, Switzerland |
| management | Vania Alleva |
| Number of employees | approx. 1000 employees (2012) 201,170 members (2016) |
| Branch | labor union |
| Website | www.unia.ch |
Unia is the largest trade union in Switzerland. It is cross-sector and organizes employees in industry, trade, construction and the private service sector. Unia represents the interests of all employees and offers its members advice, legal protection and other services. Unia also runs the largest unemployment insurance fund in Switzerland.
Unia wants to change the balance of power within the world of work in favor of employees. Over 200,000 employees are united in Unia. Unia has concluded around 300 collective employment contracts, from which over a million employees benefit. Unia is also active on a political level and is committed to a social and just society. Unia has already taken part in various initiatives and voting campaigns. Unia is also actively involved in several demonstrations and rallies.
history
Unia was created on October 16, 2004 from the merger of the construction and industry trade unions (GBI), Switzerland. Metal and Watch Workers Association (SMUV), Sales Trade Transport Food (VHTL), the old (active in the service sector) unia and the Geneva trade union in the tertiary sector actions . It is affiliated with the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB), the largest Swiss umbrella organization for trade unions.
structure
Unia is legally organized as an association. The governing bodies are the central board and the management. Since June 20, 2015, Vania Alleva has been the first woman to lead Unia as sole president. Vice-presidents are Aldo Ferrari and Martin Tanner. The more than 200,000 members are registered in 14 regions with 45 sections and around 110 local secretariats and, depending on their occupation, belong to the four sectors of construction, trade, industry and the tertiary sector . There are also four interest groups: youth, women, migration and pensioners.
The independently organized Unia unemployment fund has 68 larger and smaller paying offices across Switzerland, through which around 1.2 billion francs were paid out from the federal unemployment insurance in 2015.
Unia also publishes a membership newspaper in German (“work”), French (“Evènement syndical”) and Italian (“area”). They are supplemented seven times a year by the “Horizonte” magazine in Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Albanian and Turkish.
Finances
The main source of income for Unia is the membership fees. In the Unia newspaper work on April 27, 2012, there was talk of the "greatest source of income".
See also
Web links
- Unia website
- Website of the German-language Unia newspaper "work"
- Bernard Degen : Unia. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Unia in the Swiss Social Archives
- Inventory: unia - the service union in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unia union consolidates membership at a high level. In: unia.ch , as of the end of 2016
- ^ Unia in numbers - Unia - the union. In: unia.ch. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
- ↑ «As a member you contribute with others to a social and fair society.» In: unia.ch , accessed on August 28, 2014
- ^ History of the Unia. In: unia.ch , accessed on August 28, 2014
- ↑ Individual trade unions. In: sgb.ch , accessed on August 28, 2014
- ↑ Articles of Association. ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: unia.ch , valid since January 1, 2005
- ↑ DV elects Vania Alleva as Unia President
- ↑ Management. In: unia.ch
- ↑ numbers. In: unia.ch , as of the end of 2013
- ↑ Publications. In: Unia.ch. Retrieved October 2, 2017 .
