Facts and figures
Number of members at the beginning of 2007
- Around 200,000 enrolled members
- Over 10,000 active union representatives
Workforce
- Around 900 employees, three-quarters of whom are in the Regions
- 250 of them work in the unemployment insurance fund
Organisation
- 14 regions with 45 sections and around 100 local administrative offices
- Over 100 branches, grouped into four sectors
- Four interest groups (migrants, women, young persons, pensioners)
The unemployment insurance fund of Unia
- Benefit payments in 2007 totalling 929,753,000 Swiss Francs
- Share of total of Unemployment Benefit Insurance payments made: 25.99%
Training provided by Unia
- Over 2,000 Unia members attend professional and commercial/industrial training events annually
Information media
- Work, German newspaper, fortnightly, 95,000 copies
- L’événement syndical, French newspaper, weekly, 65,000 copies Unia
- Area, Italian newspaper, weekly, 30,000 copies Unia
- Horizonte, publication in Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian/Croatian, Albanian and Turkish
- Website, www.unia.ch (in three languages plus English window)
