Happy International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT)!

This year’s theme for 17 May, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT), is: “Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our Rights” We should all be free to claim our rights to live our sexualities and to express our gender(s) freely. This is true also in the workplace. The workplace should be free from discrimination, […]

Latest news for Spring from your Staff Union!

Dear colleagues, The ILO’s eventful Governing Body session is now behind us. The Staff Union congratulates the elected Director-General, Mr Gilbert Houngbo, and commits to collaborating with him when he takes office. We also reiterate our solidarity with our colleagues and all persons affected by war, as we said in our Chair’s statement to the […]

2021 is finally over, 2022 awaits!

Dear colleagues, For once … and we would like this to happen more often … the Administration and the Staff Union have simultaneous end-of-year messages of recognition and goodwill for our colleagues. Indeed, here we are, at the end of a year which has been governed once again by a pandemic, alternating for all staff […]

CCISUA Mid-Term Meeting, New York, 16-18 November 2021

After almost two years of entirely virtual meetings, the Coordinating Committee for International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA) decided that it was time for its constituent unions and staff associations to meet face-to-face to take stock of staff concerns and issues within the UN common system. Hosted at UNICEF, it was an opportunity to actively […]

Staff Union Committee elections – 2021-2023

The election of eight members to the Staff Union Committee, whose mandate will run from 1 December 2021 to 30 November 2023, will be held from Friday, 1 October 2021 to Thursday, 25 November 2021 at 4.45 p.m. All relevant forms concerning these elections have been issued in electronic format and are available at the […]