UNI Europa

Name

UNI Europa

Legal name

UNI Europa

Website

https://uni-europa.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

UNI Europa is a regional trade union federation that coordinates 242 national trade unions representing 7 million service workers across 50 countries. It delivers collective bargaining support, cross-border organising, social dialogue with EU institutions, and policy advocacy across 13 service sectors including care, commerce, finance, ICT, post & logistics, and tourism.

Product overview

UNI Europa is a regional trade union federation of UNI Global Union, not a technology product company. It offers advocacy, organizing, and collective bargaining support services to 242 national trade unions representing 7 million service workers across 50 countries. The organization focuses on sectors including care, commerce, finance, gaming, ICT, media, post & logistics, property services, and tourism. UNI Europa does not offer commercial software products or technology platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• European Power & Organising Centre (EPOC): Organising centre focused on building worker power across Europe
• Central European Organizing Centre (COZZ)
• South-East Europe Organising Centre (SEEOC)

Products and services

• Trade Union Representation Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Amazon Italy first national agreement covering 57 sites
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• CoESS (Confederation of European Security Services)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 July 2026European social partner organization for private security services. UNI Europa and CoESS adopted their 2026-2028 social dialogue work programme focusing on public procurement reform, skills, diversity, inclusion, and preparedness in the private security sector.
• European Commission DG FISMAcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 June 202625-year social dialogue partnership celebrating its anniversary in 2026. UNI Europa and DG FISMA maintain structured dialogue on financial services regulation, digitization, AI, and green transition impacting finance sector workers.
• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025European confederation of trade unions. UNI Europa participates in ETUC-led activities including the Madrid rally (June 2026) with 10,000 workers from 30 unions, demanding investment-focused EU policies and collective bargaining promotion.
• UNI Global UnioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParent global union federation. UNI Europa is a regional organization of UNI Global Union, with shared leadership including UNI Global General Secretary Christy Hoffman.
• Filt CGIL, Fit CISL, and Uiltrasporti (Italian Unions)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThree Italian trade unions that signed the first national collective agreement with Amazon covering 57 sites across Italy, building on a 2021 labor protocol.
• Austrian Federal Ministry (BMWKMS) and GPFcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint declaration to preserve, strengthen, and modernize postal and delivery services in Austria. The ministry, Austrian postal workers union, and UNI Global committed to fair solutions for postal service challenges.
• European Central Bank (ECB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHigh-level meeting between UNI Europa Regional Secretary Oliver Roethig, ETUC General Secretary Esther Lynch, and ECB President Christine Lagarde on digital euro project, focusing on labor implications, sovereignty, and consumer protection.
• European ParliamentmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUNI Europa works with MEPs including Repasi and Danielsson on 'EU Inc' legislation to ensure worker safeguards, co-determination rights, and collective bargaining protections are maintained.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC): ITUC is the global trade union confederation, comparable to UNI Europa at the worldwide level. Both organizations coordinate national affiliates, engage in international policy advocacy, and represent workers in social dialogue with international institutions.
• European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC): ETUC is the umbrella confederation of European trade unions and UNI Europa's closest structural peer. UNI Europa participates directly in ETUC-led activities (e.g., the Madrid rally), and both organizations engage in EU social dialogue on parallel tracks with overlapping member unions.
• IndustriAll European Trade Union: IndustriAll Europe is a sectoral European trade union federation covering manufacturing, mining, and energy workers — the closest analogue to UNI Europa in structure and function but in a different sector. Both federations engage in EU social dialogue and coordinate national affiliates across Europe.
• European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU): EPSU is a sectoral European federation representing public service workers, structurally identical to UNI Europa but focused on the public sector. Both federations participate in EU social dialogue, represent workers in 50+ countries, and coordinate national union affiliates on similar advocacy priorities.
• European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF): ETF is the European sectoral federation for transport workers, structurally parallel to UNI Europa with similar EU social dialogue engagement, cross-border coordination role, and representation of national affiliates across Europe — though focused on transport rather than services more broadly.

Regional players

• Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB): DGB is Germany's national trade union confederation and one of the largest in Europe. UNI Europa represents some of DGB's service-sector member unions at the European level, making DGB a key national-level counterpart with comparable coordination, advocacy, and collective bargaining functions.
• Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL): CGIL is Italy's largest national trade union confederation and a direct participant in UNI Europa-coordinated activities (e.g., the Amazon Italy agreement with Filt CGIL). It performs analogous coordination and representation functions at the national level that UNI Europa performs at the European level.
• Trades Union Congress (TUC): TUC is the UK national trade union confederation, comparable to UNI Europa at the country level rather than the European level. It coordinates 48 member unions on collective bargaining, advocacy, and social dialogue, mirroring UNI Europa's coordination role for European service-sector unions.

Others

• International Labour Organization (ILO): The ILO is the UN agency for labor standards and a key counterpart for UNI Europa's policy advocacy. While not a peer organization, ILO conventions and frameworks shape UNI Europa's collective bargaining agenda, and UNI Europa engages with the ILO on social dialogue and worker protection standards.

Broad incumbents

• UNI Global Union: UNI Europa is the European regional organization of UNI Global Union, its parent federation. UNI Global operates across all regions and provides shared leadership (e.g., General Secretary Christy Hoffman), making it the direct hierarchical counterpart rather than a true competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/UNI_Europa
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@UNI_Europa
• Facebookfacebook.com/UNIEuropa
• Instagraminstagram.com/uni_europa
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/uni-europa

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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