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UNI Post & Logistics Global Union congratulated the Spanish Government for their foresight in developing agreements with Uruguay, Chile and Argentina to use the UPU's IFS system for transferring money between workers and their families. The UPU has developed a cheap, secure and money transfer system (called IFS) so that migrant workers can easily and transfer money to their families. UNI Global Union, when it met with Encarnacion Vivancos, the Spanish Minister of Fomento (Responsible for Post) at the UPU Congress, congratulated Spain on taking this step and encouraged them to do more. UNI told the Minister that it is also wanting to promote the system with the many millions of UNI Members world wide who are migrant workers and would look to ways that UNI could cooperate with Spain and the countries that had signed to exchange money transfers using the UPU's IFS system. The Minster told UNI that Spain was in discussions with several more countries to use IFS and that it wold look for ways to cooperate with UNI in this project.