Mark, Leila and Lilyia have worked tirelessly over the last two years as the UNFSU Executive to assist colleagues during an ongoing global pandemic. Even though working from quarantine for much of the time, results have still been achieved. Over the course of our current mandate, we have given substance to our motto “Stronger Together” by actively seeking out partners and stakeholders that help promote the well-being of our staff and offer value by offering solutions to issues our staff in the field face.
It has been almost two years that you cast your votes for the Team Future during the UNFSU elections in 2019. It is only two years but feels like ages. Indeed, it was a huge paradigm shift in all the working arrangements for our valuable colleagues in Field missions and to our Team Future due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since we took the office in October 2019, we literally did not have any grace period and almost immediately deep dived into the pandemic crisis.
We were constantly receiving feedback from you in the field regarding the implementation of the new Covid-19 policy and passing that information to the Management in NY HQ, who in their turn finetuned that policy. We saw five editions of those guidelines. And a sixth one will be promulgated soon. The remote working from home was a very challenging experience, but we are proud of all the colleagues, who were able to adjust to the new reality and deliver without detriment to the mission mandates. However, we also dealt with some negative externalities of malpractice in some missions and loose interpretation of the Covid-19 Guidelines by the management to the detriment of the staff members. Our Team Future helped our colleagues from Haiti mission to challenge the Leadership decision to cut the entitlements retroactively due to Covid -19 remote working arrangements and Staff members were successful in winning the MEU cases.
UNFSU Election 2021 