A Better Bargain

Collective agreements ensure that workers can win a fair deal. Through multi-employer bargaining, workers across different companies can strengthen their hand in fighting for their rights. They increase their leverage and everyone benefits.

In A Better Bargain we worked with UNI Europa to produce to tool to get the best arguments into the hands of workers, trade unionists, employers and the general public.

Visitors to the site can identify themselves as different groups involved in conversations about multi-employer bargaining. Then through going through a simple quiz, they can then find the best positive arguments for multi-employer bargaining, and rebuttals to common objections they might hear.

This enables better advocacy and ultimately better pay, conditions and benefits for workers. We also provide links to resources where they can learn more.

A Better Bargain is embedded into UNI Europa's existing WordPress website as a simple plugin. We used Alpine.js to ensure seamless integration within the site, without introducing Javascript bloat or possible incompatibilities with what is already there.

For keeping the content, UNI Europa employees interact with a Google Sheet of answers to questions, providing them with a familiar interface for managing the arguments different groups would make. We sucked the information from the spreadsheet, then served it to Alpine.js over the WordPress REST-API .

UNI Europa represents millions of workers across Europe. In order to respect this diversity A Better Bargain needed to be translated into multiple languages.

We achieved this using Weglot , which enabled both machine and human translation into six languages. Of the various approaches available for translation for WordPress, we found this the most lightweight and powerful.

Workers win together. Multi-employer bargaining brings workers together. A Better Bargain is a simple tool in their hands to make the daily disputes around it easier.