Many of you have been taking part in our campaign to stop the outsourcing of our pension fund. We are thankful to those who have signed our petition following our call to action. Following our latest letter to the SG, we received the following answer from his office. We are therefore glad to note that the…
Author: Staff Union
Update on possible negative changes to the home leave lump sum | Dernières nouvelles de la menace qui pèse sur la somme forfaitaire pour congés dans les foyers
You will recall that we raised concerns in November about a proposal by management to set a fixed annual amount per city pair (duty station and home leave location) for home leave lump sums. The amount would be fixed once a year and would not change regardless of price changes due to busy holiday periods. …
Please sign this petition to keep our pension fund safe | Prière de signer cette pétition pour garder notre Caisse des pensions en sécurité
Last week we asked you to sign our petition to keep our pension fund safe. Over 8,500 of you already have. In case you still harbour doubts, please read this article here in which our UN pension fund announces plans to outsource a further $5 to 7 billion to Wall Street investment managers, in addition…
Please sign this petition to oppose outsourcing our UN pension fund to Wall Street | Veuillez signer cette pétition pour vous opposer à l’externalisation de la Caisse des pensions de l’ONU vers Wall Street
We are deeply worried about plans by our UN pension fund to outsource its investment management, starting with the fixed-income portfolio. The Secretary-General is proceeding with the outsourcing despite strong concerns expressed by the pension board, despite a letter of protest written by our staff union federation CCISUA and despite staff concerns raised at a…
Result of the collection for humanitarian relief to Ukraine | Résultats de la collecte pour l’aide humanitaire à l’Ukraine
We are glad to inform you that the final collected amount for humanitarian relief in Ukraine reached the amount of CHF 41’000. The Staff Council has decided to add its own contribution for a further amount of CHF 10’000. This will bring the total amount that will be transferred to the Ukrainian Red Cross to…
Use of personal devices for multi-factor authentication | Utilisation de dispositifs personnels pour l’authentification multifactorielle
Following concerns raised by many of you, the Staff Council brought to management, in the context of the Joint Negotiation Committee, the issue of staff needing to use their personal devices to log into Umoja and other systems, in particular relating to the multi-factor authentication. Concerns included the legal implications of staff using their personal…
Update on the collection for humanitarian relief in Ukraine | Le point sur la collecte pour l’aide humanitaire en Ukraine
Thank you so much for your fantastic generosity in the collection for humanitarian relief in Ukraine. So far we have collected CHF 25’699.62. The funds will be transferred to the Ukrainian Red Cross next week. If any more staff want to participate, the collection will remain open until Friday 11 March. Donations should be deposited…
March’s UN Today is out | Le numéro de mars de UN Today vient de paraître
In this month’s UN Today, out now: Judge, doctor, counsellor and staff representative: profiling four strong women at the UN in Geneva What it’s like as a staff member to be declared persona non grata? Two colleagues and their UNOG podcast Jane Goodall: we have stolen young people’s future A UN legal officer’s journey from…
New composition of the UNOG Staff Union leadership | La nouvelle équipe dirigeante du Syndicat du personnel de l’ONUG
At its first meeting held on 25 March 2022, the 40th Staff Union Council elected its office holders as follows: President: Ian RichardsVice-President: Ursula HermelinkExecutive Secretary: Brad SmithDeputy Executive Secretary: Mohamed Chiraz Baly*Executive Bureau members:Philippe DuparcLaura JohnsonNaima AbdellaouiOlivier MeyerPrisca Chaoui *Elected at the first meeting of the Executive Bureau. On behalf of the Council, we…
Update on home leave and annual leave carryover | Point sur le report des congés dans les foyers et des congés annuels
You will recall that in March last year the Office of Human Resources exceptionally authorized a carryover of 75 days of annual leave and 72 points of home leave. Towards the end of 2021 a number of you asked us to request that this exception be repeated. We made a formal request to management through…