20 February 2013

By Andrew Brady Today the people of Greece take to the streets to vent their fury at the imposition of austerity and the dismantling of society in a General Strike. At Union Solidarity International we want to express our wholehearted support, solidarity and admiration for the exhausted people of Greece. The Greek Government’s appeasement of [...]

9 January 2013

By Andrew Brady Yesterday’s European unemployment figures are truly devastating. There’s no other word that can encapsulate the broken dreams and hardships that tens of millions of people across the continent of Europe are enduring. The Eurozone unemployment rate hit a new record high of 11.8% in November leaving some 18.82 million people out of [...]

13 June 2012

BY Andrew Brady USi spent six nights in Athens recently to gather momentum for our ‘Solidarity with Greece’ campaign with trade unions and community networks. This article is one of three on our reflections on the challenges facing the City and Greece – and what as trade unionists we must do to assist. With Greece’s [...]

12 March 2012

The euro area (EA17) unemployment rate was 10.7% in January 2012, compared with 10.6% in December 2011. It was 10.0% in January 2011. The EU27 unemployment rate was 10.1% in January 2012, compared with 10.0% in December 2011. Eurostat estimates that 24.3 million men and women in the EU27, nearly 17 million were in the [...]