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)