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UNI Global Union’s Communications Department is reaching out to affiliates to tap their experience and expertise in building a powerful network of communicators to support major UNI campaigns.

Next week’s global Communicators’ Forum has the theme “Person to Person”—which will focus on sharing new ways communicators can use person to person communication to accomplish union goals. Speakers will also talk about aspects of new media such as professional and social networking and interacting online with the union community.

As 2010 is a Congress year for UNI, the forum in Tokyo was a chance to build on UNI’s plans and Japanese union plans to publicise the Congress and to provide a lively and interactive online community during the Congress that will keep delegates and those who cannot make the trip to Nagasaki up to date.



“We want to get people involved in the Congress no matter where they are in the world,” said UNI Head of Communications Rachel Cohen. “We will be blogging, Tweeting and using Facebook to keep delegates, observers and UNI members from around the world engaged and involved.”

Presentations at the global forum will highlight around the human aspects of campaigns with speakers sharing stories about personalizing the experiences of workers and how that can help win new supporters, win over employers and win organizing and other campaigns.

UNI holds the annual forum to bring together communications staff from its member unions around the world to discuss their work, share information and build a powerful network that can support major campaigns.



The purpose of the forum is to build network between UNI’s communications staff and the staff in member unions so that they can offer mutual support in international campaigns.



This is the seventh forum. Connections have been formed over the years that have helped unions in less-developed countries advance their technological and communications methods.



For more information on the forum, go to http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Apps/iportal.nsf/pages/20090211_6ljyEn