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STU/66th Council/14/024
20 November 2014

STU suspends its relations with the Administration

In its Flash of 2 October last, the UNESCO Staff Union (STU) pointed out that an open and constructive dialogue, during the redeployment exercise, between staff associations and the Administration had...

STU/66th Council/14/026
18 November 2014

DO NOT LET THE ORGANIZATION TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS

The new Rules of the Medical Benefits Fund (MBF) have been published despite the fact that the Extraordinary General Assembly of Participants, meeting on 4 September 2013, did not approve them.

The ne...

STU/66th Council/14/025
13 November 2014

CHANGES TO THE RULES OF THE MEDICAL BENEFITS FUND
HOW DO THEY AFFECT YOU?

On the eve of the discussion of the Medical Benefits Fund (MBF) in the Executive Board (document 195 EX/5 Part V C), that is, at 17:57 on 21 October 2014, the Administration issue...

STU/66th Council/14/021
24 October 2014

Document 195 EX/5: Follow-up to decisions and resolutions adopted by the Executive Board and the General Conference
at their previous sessions

Part V: Human resources issues

Oral intervention of the UNESCO Staff Union (STU), 23 October 2014

B. Use of...

STU/66th Council/14/020
23 October 2014

195 EX/13: Preliminary proposals by the Director-General on the preparation of the budget for the biennium (38 C/5)

STU Comments

STU has carefully studied document 195 EX/13 which presents the preliminary proposal by the Director-General for the prepara...

STU/66th Council/14/019
22 October 2014

195 EX/5: Follow-up to decisions and resolutions adopted by the Executive Board and the General Conference
at their previous sessions

Part V: Human resources issues

A. Geographical distribution and gender balance of the staff of the Secretariat


STU...

STU/66th Council/14/017
21 October 2014

195 EX/5: Follow-up to decisions and resolutions adopted by the Executive Board and the General Conference
at their previous sessions

Part V: Human resources issues

B. Use of consultant contracts in 2013 and the implementation of the revised policy o...

14 October 2014

Dear colleagues,

Like your staff representatives, you must have been stunned to read the Administrative Circular AC/HR/42 announcing the cancellation of the “breastfeeding month” – a de facto reduction of maternity leave by 20%.

Gender equality and women’s empowerment is one...

STU/66th Council/14/014
2 October 2014

Dear Colleagues,

The redeployment exercise ended on 31 August 2014.

During the process, the upheld dialogue between the two Staff Unions and the Administration has allowed 95 staff members, out of 113 whose posts were abolished, to find a suitable post i...

STU/66th Council/14/013
29 September 2014

THE MEDICAL BENEFITS FUND


WHAT IS HAPPENING TO IT?

WHO IS MANAGING IT?

WHY ARE WE NOT BEING INFORMED?

The short answer to those questions is that NOTHING is happening and NOBODY is sure who is managing it - and that is a matter of major conc...