Alke Bössiger

Alke Boessiger is the Deputy General Secretary of UNI Global Union, the global union federation for skills and services, representing over 20 million workers in 150 countries.

Appointed Deputy General Secretary in 2018, she leads UNI staff, finances and administration and oversees several strategic policy areas as well as external stakeholder engagement.

Working in leadership roles at UNI for some twenty-five years, she previously headed two of UNI’s largest sectors, Commerce and ICTS, where she was instrumental in securing and implementing multiple international framework agreements safeguarding worker rights in global companies.

She is a member of the steering committee of the “International Accord”, a legally binding agreement between multi-national companies, retailers and trade unions which improves workplace health and safety standards in the garment and textile industry in Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Most recently she has been leading the development of the Human Rights Due Diligence Competence Centre for Trade Unions. The Centre’s mission is to ensure that human rights due diligence strengthens respect for workers’ rights throughout value chains, especially the enabling rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining.