This year’s Geneva May day march will have a strong international flavour: • The staff unions of international organizations in Geneva will be participating in order to call for a reform of how our conditions of service are determined. This is in light of recent changes to methodologies and their incorrect application, affecting G and…

Our broadcast on reforming the ICSC focused on the Geneva pay cut and made reference to the ICSC’s recent spring meeting. Please find below a more complete summary of the spring meeting, which covered a number of issues besides the pay cut, as well as the opening statement by the president of the federation to which the Staff Council belongs…

The ski season may still be on, but in Geneva spring has arrived! We are therefore pleased to inform you that UN Beach is open as of this month from 11 to 5 p.m. and as of 1 May and through the summer from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Entry is open to staff, consultants and interns of…

Thank you for coming to last week’s staff meeting. During the meeting we presented the current situation with regards to our three goals of: – getting a review of last year’s pay cut resulting from an incorrect application of the post adjustment system; – reforming how post adjustment is calculated to bring it into line with reality;…

Following the success of the last year’s second edition of “Courir sans Borne”, the UN Staff Sports Commission at Geneva would like to invite you to participate in the 3rd Edition which will take place on 27 May 2018. There will be three races to choose from: A 10 km race between Ornex (France) and Collex-Bossy (Switzerland) A 10…

As you will be aware, the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly, which deals with administrative and budgetary matters, completed its first resumed session. The two big issues that took up their time were travel and a resubmitted proposal to restructure OHCHR. We took this opportunity to exchange our views with delegates prior to their decisions. On travel, the…

You will have seen our broadcast before Easter in which we informed you on the decisions of the ICSC following our collective action (strikes, campaign and demonstrations). As promised, we would like to hold a townhall to discuss this with you. It will take place TODAY Thursday at 1.15 p.m. in room XXI. At the meeting we will…

Thank you for taking part in last week’s events including demonstrations, gatherings and the second strike on Friday. You joined staff in Bangkok as well as the ILO Geneva in expressing your dissatisfaction with the arbitrary decisions of the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC). The day’s actions, which culminated in our statement to the Human Rights Council, received positive…

Many of you have already filed a legal challenge against the pay cut through the Office of Staff Legal Assistance (OSLA). You should have been by now contacted by OSLA about the next stages of the appeal.  For those colleagues who have not yet contested the pay cut, you are invited to do so on…

Following our earlier broadcast we would like to confirm that  a second day of strike will take place this Friday 23 March.  We invite you this time to come in large numbers to the following gatherings: Picket lines from 8 to 10 a.m. at Pregny, Chemin de fer and Nations gates; Celestial Globe at 10 a.m. Meeting…