Union Network International

... UNI was created on 1 January 2000 following a merger of four Internationals, the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees (FIET), the Communications International (CI), the International Graphical Federation (IGF) and the Media and Entertainment International (MEI). Union Network International (UNI)... has 15 million members from 900 affiliates in 150 countries. The creation of UNI is in response to globalisation and the need to build stronger global links between affiliates. In a global economy it is vital to build new forms of global union action. International union activity has become an integral part of national union work. Under his leadership, UNI has developed a wide-ranging plan of action focussed around ten key strategic objectives. The plan covers how to bring a social dimension to globalisation, building stronger unions by reaching out to professionals and managers, improving the recruitment of young people and women into unions, targeted organising campaigns, establishing a global dialogue with employers, campaigning for improved corporate social responsibility, developing global solidarity action and ensuring that all affiliates are on-line. In a world economy characterised by regional integration, dominated by multinationals and linked by technology, UNI has a global, regional and sectoral structure with staff and offices in all continents. With over 200 agreements in multinationals, UNI will develop union co-operation in these enterprises. UNI's aim is to make local union members global players. UNI has a global IT network. Philip J. Jennings joined the Geneva-based FIET's staff in 1980, following a four-year spell with the Banking and Insurance Union in the United Kingdom. He became General Secretary of FIET in 1989 and was re-elected to this position at World Congresses in San Francisco in 1991, in Vienna in 1995 and in Sydney in 1999. He was elected General Secretary of UNI at the first UNI World Congress in Berlin, in September 2001. He is ...Read More