Labour rights and sustainable finance

NFU Blog 2018-06-15NFU Blog Over the past year, NFU has taken important steps to empower finance employees and strengthen finance’s role in society as the EU formulates its agenda for sustainable finance. The fight for minimum safeguards for human rights and labour...

There’s no business like union business

NFU Blog 2018-06-14NFU Blog This Sunday, more than 2000 trade union representatives and staff gather in Liverpool for the 5th UNI Global Union World Congress. It is a historic event, for several reasons. First – the mere fact that so many trade unionists gather to...

Shaping Europe through Social dialogue

NFU Blog NFU Blog The EU highly impacts what is happening in the Nordic financial sectors, but Nordic trade unions can also influence the direction of Europe. That is why NFU is engaged in the European Social Dialogue for the Banking and Insurance sectors. Here we...

Part 7: Pressure from compliance

NFU Blog 2018-06-03NFU Blog NFU continuously works to shape EU legislation to the benefit of the employees’ of the financial sectors. As a part of this work, NFU last year conducted a survey on how regulatory requirements stemming from EU legislation effect...

Part 6: Creating synergies with an EU approach

NFU Blog 2018-06-02NFU Blog The NFU Policy Affairs Forum 2018 is over but the issues continue to be relevant. Emelie Weski (@emelieweski), Head of EU Affairs at NFU, makes a few concluding remarks and reflections on what can be done by trade unionists for more...