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Union leaders from all over the continent discussed future strategies, particularly in relation to building union membership, activity and power through campaigns to make and to implement global agreements with multinational employers.



MTN is the largest mobile telecommunications operator in Africa, with operations in 21 African countries, 15,000 employees and 1 million customers. UNI has established an alliance of trade unions organising at MTN which took decisions this week to intensify and to better coordinate the organising efforts between countries.



The Committee also considered other influential multinational players in the sector as targets for global agreement campaigns.



Following the successful merger of the IBITS and Telecom sectors in Europe in September and the creation of the UNI ICTS sector (information and communication technology and services), UNI Africa's Telecom Committee adopted a resolution to consider re-forming the sector as ICTS in its own region. This will be further discussed at the UNI Africa Telecom Conference in 2010.