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The UNOG Staff Union represents the staff of the UN Secretariat in Geneva.
It represents you before management in Geneva and New York in all areas related to your conditions of service and welfare.
We need your support
to continue fighting for your rights.
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We are calling on member states to take control of UN80 | Notre appel aux états membres à reprendre en main l’initiative UN80
Staff unions have written to member states criticising Guy Ryder’s UN80 process as incoherent and lacking strategy. The letter is here. Among the points raised by the Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations, the staff federation of...
Pension Fund elections | Elections de la Caisse des pensions
Elections to the UN Staff Pension Committee begin today and last until next Wednesday. Given the current volatility it is more important than ever to have the right board in place. We therefore encourage you to vote in these elections. You should have separately...
Relocations of OHCHR staff | Délocalisations du personnel du HCDH
As you may be aware, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, unlike some other heads of entity, has enthusiastically embraced UN 80 and has proposed 120 staff relocations. We have serious doubts about the underlying rationale of these changes, which are...
Summary of the townhall with Guy Ryder | Résumé de la réunion générale avec Guy Ryder
We would like to thank those of you who attended the townhall with USG Guy Ryder last week. Anyone who was unable to attend can watch the recording here. Staff had many questions, some of which were summarized in a statement made by the UNOG Staff Union...
Recent instructions on the budget cuts | Directives récentes sur les coupes budgétaires
Heads of UN Secretariat departments have recently received two further memos containing instructions on how to respond to the liquidity crisis and prepare for the planned UN80 cuts. One memo gives instructions that fixed-term appointments can only be renewed for a...
Why we do not agree with Volker Turk’s expensive and poorly-managed project
Like our OHCHR colleagues we attended last week’s townhall where High Commissioner Volker Turk presented his latest plans for moving staff out of headquarters. We note that this project has been carried out without adequate consultation with the staff union. The...
Townhall meeting on UN80 with USG Guy Ryder | Réunion générale sur l’initiative UN80 avec le Secrétaire général adjoint Guy Ryder
Like you, we have many questions and concerns on UN 80 and the way it is being conducted. Many of you are asking questions; many of these can only be answered by those making the decisions. For this reason we have invited Guy Ryder, Under-Secretary-General for...
New memo from the Controller on the budget | Nouvelle circulaire sur le budget de la part du Contrôleur
Ever since the Secretary-General mentioned to the member states that he wanted to see 20 per cent cuts in posts, we have been trying to find out what that would look like in practice. Heads of departments and offices were told to produce revised budget submissions,...
Why we do not agree with UN 80 and our next actions | Nos désaccords sur l’initative UN80 et les prochaines démarches
We met with management last week to discuss UN 80 through the Staff-Management Committee (SMC): Among the issues raised was the continuing lack of transparency and lack of consultation. For example, the Secretary-General told staff that “leaks and rumours...
Townhall on the Office of Staff Legal Assistance (OSLA) | Réunion générale sur le Bureau de l’aide juridique au personnel
In this uncertain period, we have received questions about how to legally contest a decision that affects you. Therefore, we have invited Marcos Zunino, the Chief of the Office of Staff Legal Assistance (OSLA) to brief you on the services provided by his office,...
Secretary-General’s briefing to member states on UN80 | L’adresse du Secrétaire général aux états membres au sujet de l’initative UN80
Yesterday the Secretary-General briefed the General Assembly on the UN 80 initiative. You can watch the recording here. He informed the member states that, for its mandate implementation workstream, the task force had established 7 working clusters, each one...
Panel commemorating International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia next Tuesday | Table ronde à l’occasion de la Journée internationale contre l’homophobie, la transphobie et la biphobie
The UNOG Staff Union was approached by the Geneva coordinators of UN-GLOBE with a request to publicize this event organized for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. Since the global theme for the Day concerns the power of communities,...
Media coverage of the Geneva demonstration | Couverture médiatique de la manifestation à Genève
We would like to thank all those of you who attended our May Day demonstration to protest against the current wave of job cuts and budget reductions throughout the UN system. Around 500 people took part, and the protest received widespread media coverage. You can see...
May issue of UN Today is out | Le numéro de mai de UN Today vient de paraître
In this month’s UN Today, out now: UNVs and the future of volunteering Reflections of a peacekeeper How the Rio carnival became inclusive Visit Lake Lucerne And more… Read the October edition here or visit our website. UN Today is your magazine, if you want...
Top stories
We are calling on member states to take control of UN80 | Notre appel aux états membres à reprendre en main l’initiative UN80
Staff unions have written to member states criticising Guy Ryder’s UN80 process as incoherent and lacking strategy. The letter is here. Among the points raised by the Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations, the...
Pension Fund elections | Elections de la Caisse des pensions
Elections to the UN Staff Pension Committee begin today and last until next Wednesday. Given the current volatility it is more important than ever to have the right board in place. We therefore encourage you to vote in these elections. You...
Relocations of OHCHR staff | Délocalisations du personnel du HCDH
As you may be aware, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, unlike some other heads of entity, has enthusiastically embraced UN 80 and has proposed 120 staff relocations. We have serious doubts about the underlying rationale of these...
Summary of the townhall with Guy Ryder | Résumé de la réunion générale avec Guy Ryder
We would like to thank those of you who attended the townhall with USG Guy Ryder last week. Anyone who was unable to attend can watch the recording here. Staff had many questions, some of which were summarized in a statement made by the...
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