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USHU – 15 years at your service: Ensuring your issues are on the HQ Agenda Every Time

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Helen CONEFREY, Sunil KUMAR, Aminata ONGOIBA, Karoly SOOS, Michael STEFFENS, and Sumeet THAKKAR





“No one knows better than USHU the challenging working conditions and issues concerning staff in EU Delegations.  Our core team of committed USHU members, has been working for you for over 15 years and we jointly celebrate our collective results! There are many challenges ahead and we can support you better if you continue to strengthen USHU with your membership and inputs”.

Helen Conefrey, President of USHU

 

Join USHU today on: https://www.ushu.eu/membership

 

In 2025, USHU celebrates over 15 years of existence. We have always been at your side and ready to serve you, to provide you with timely advice and to hear you. USHU has doggedly defended staff rights at the toughest moments and is widely recognised as a credible and experienced interlocutor when it comes to HR-related issues affecting staff in EU Delegations.

 

USHU has a proven comparative advantage, and our raison d’être is to better represent Delegations. Since the creation of USHU, we have managed to ensure that your issues are high on the Agenda that EU Delegations are no longer left behind.

 

Some today even question the need for Trade Unions in a modern EU administration but USHU knows that we work in a complex, diverse and dynamic environment and that Trade Unions play a critical role in a range of staff issues including :

 

·      Collective bargaining power to improve and defend Staff Rights for greater job security

·      Advocating for equitable human resource policies

·      Promoting career development for all staff categories

·      Ensuring staff well-being and mental health, encouraging harassment-free workplaces

·      Engaging in Social Dialogue to inform management of staff issues and make recommendations

·      Influencing human resources policies to reflect current and future tendencies

 

When we celebrated our 10-year anniversary, we reached out to staff and launched a large survey to understand better the topics that you want us to prioritise and how to better communicate with staff and with our USHU members. Based on your critical feedback, we modernised USHU with a new logo, a new FB forum and a marvellous new and user-friendly website https://www.ushu.eu/. We received truly positive feedback on these efforts to guarantee that staff know who we are, our priorities and expected results (https://www.ushu.eu/news), how to contact us and how to join USHU!

 

You can now quickly and easily join USHU online at https://www.ushu.eu/membership. We offer different levels of membership to cater for different needs.  

 

USHU is much more than a Trade Union

 

USHU is not only a Trade Union; it is a community of members.  Members who volunteer to support staff with targeted advice and to intervene on behalf of members when they most need us. USHU was founded as a direct response to the need to create a more experienced Trade Union that would focus on staff in the external relations family and on Delegation needs.

 

Before USHU, Delegations were out of sight and truly out of mind. Staff were subject to HR policies that were designed at HQ by managers who had rarely served in a Delegation and had little or no understanding of the specific conditions in each Delegation context. 

 

Fast forward to today and USHU represents the interests of all staff categories working in EU Delegations, pertaining to both the European Commission and the External Action Service. 

 

USHU has an impressive global network of USHU Ambassadors to ensure that you are never far from an USHU member who is able to assist you.  You can work with us and become a local “USHU Ambassador” at your Delegation and in the region.

 

Join USHU today on: https://www.ushu.eu/membership

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