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The UNOG Staff Coordinating Council is pleased to organize for its staff member’s children, the traditional children’s Christmas party, which will take place on Wednesday 12 December from 1.30pm to 5.30pm. Français en bas de page Children: Children between the ages of 4 and 8 on the day of the show are welcome. They will be…

As you may know, OCHA management has decided unilaterally to offshore administrative support posts from Geneva and New York to a third location. This decision will have an impact on staff in Geneva and New York, especially general service colleagues who cannot move with their posts. It is disappointing that OCHA management used the report (available…

At its meeting on 27 September, the Council will be discussing the issue of insecurity in Geneva. This follows requests from several staff members. For memory, you will recall that last autumn the Council organized a townhall on this issue at which the Chief of Security of UNOG explained the challenges posed by cross-border crime…

We are pleased to share with you a business plan for an 88-child crèche at the UN (full document in French, brief in English). The plan was prepared for the Council by a local consulting firm and is itself based on earlier study that the Council undertook at the start of this year. Using costs…

Having concluded the first design phase of career development and mobility framework by negotiating the framework for internationally recruited staff, we would now like to start work on the second phase: career development and mobility of locally recruited staff (staff in the General Service category) in Geneva, a topic on which many of you have…

As we informed you earlier this month, negotiations took place from 13 to 23 June between staff and management, principally on the long-running issue of a staff mobility policy. In order to inform you of the outcome, which is based substantially on the staff counter-proposal shared with you on 7 June for comments, which was…

We are pleased to share with you a proposal on voluntary mobility for locally-recruited (i.e. GS) staff. The proposal will be discussed at the upcoming staff-management SMC negotiations taking place in Arusha from 13 to 23 June. The aim of this paper is to re-examine career development opportunities for GS personnel.

We are pleased to share with you the counter-proposal of staff on the subject of mobility. It has been approved by every staff union in the UN system and also reflects the outcome of a townhall we organized on the subject in early April and the results of the survey held in January. However, further…

Members of the UNOG Staff Coordination Council have the possibility to take part in training courses carried out by the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) in the UK. These training courses cover important topics, such as “negotiation & influencing skills” or “leadership skills”, specifically approaching them from a trade union perspective. These mainly two-day courses provide…