Author: Staff Union

The Council invites you to the Ordinary General Assembly of staff, to be held on Tuesday 27 January 2015, at 1.30 p.m., in Room XIX (E-Building). The agenda is as follows:  1.    Adoption of the agenda2.    Election of the Presiding Officer3.    Election of the Polling Board4.    Election of the auditors5.    Report on…

As you may know, a memorial service took place in New York last week to remember the more than 100 UN personnel who lost their lives in the line of duty last year, and mark five years since the earthquake in Haiti. Our colleagues were victims of violence, extremism, pandemics, or even attacks by UN…

Welcome back from the holidays. We would like to update you on a number of decisions the General Assembly took at the end of last month that will affect you. The UNOG Staff Coordinating Council worked hard to influence these outcomes, both with other unions at the UN and through the federation of unions to which…

As you may be aware, one of the challenges we face being in Geneva is that many decisions affecting us are made in New York, either by the General Assembly or by senior management. For this reason we committed ourselves in our work programme to use all forms of staff-management for available to us in order to…

Earlier this week the Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA), to which we as UNOG staff belong, intervened at the General Assembly (Fifth Committee) on the following human resources-related matters: the possibility of current staff to be able to choose to retire at 65 as of 2016; the current review of your…

Firstly thanks to the 13,000 of you who signed the petition supporting our campaign to keep the pension fund in the UN. The board of the fund supported this approach and asked that staff representatives be included in negotiations for an administrative relationship agreement, to be concluded by 30 September. As of today, we have…

Following the joint HR-Staff Council information sessions on 17 September, 25 September, 2 October and 9 October 2014, the slides of the presentation are attached. Suite aux séances d’information conjoint entre le Département des Ressources Humaines et le Conseil de coordination tenues le 17 septembre, 25 septembre, 2 octobre et 9 octobre 2014, les diapositives…

We are pleased to inform you that the Security Council passed resolution 2175 requiring accountability for those who kill our colleagues. (Pertinent text below) The resolution follows recent actions by your staff union calling for those who kill UN staff to be held accountable. These actions have included: a letter sent by unions to the…