The Danish services group ISS (440.000 employees), mostly present in industrial cleaning, catering and safety services, signed, on June 3, with the global union UNI Global Union, a global framework agreement replacing a previous agreement concluded in 2003. The new text notably specifies that, given the difficulties in forming a trade union, the group will facilitate union organization and allow them to recruit members within the companies of the group. (Ref. 080495)
After listing the international social standards which the group commits to respect, ISS and UNI Global Union assured that the right to union membership and to collective bargaining is allowed within ISS, without fear of retaliation, repression, or any other form of action or discrimination. “Whether our employees join a union or not is their free choice”, explained Jorgen Lindegaard, CEO of the group. “But we want to make that choice available to them in the best possible way”. “The concrete c
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