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Alain Carrupt has been elected as the new President of UNI's Swiss affiliate, Synidcat de la Communication, to replace Christian Levrat who is now the head of the Socialist Group in the Swiss parliament. Alain has worked closely before with UNI Global Union in his role as Synidcat de la Communication Deputy General Secretary and has been a part of the UNI Telecom Regulation Working Group.



Alain told the delegates at the special conference to undertake the election, that the two main issues facing the union which he would be putting his immediate efforts into where the fight to stop the liberalisation of the Swiss postal market and the proposed full privatisation of Swisscom, the main Swiss telecom operator.



During the conference, the delegates were also told of a plan to merge the union with two other unions, le Syndicat des services publics (SSP) and the media union Comédia, to make any new union the second largest union in Switzerland with more than 84,000 members.



UNI Global Union wishes Alain well in his new post ad looks forward to working closer with him in the future.