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UNI Americas keeps breaking through!
Published: 27 May 2014
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- UNI Americas beats the drums in the Property Services Sector. In Bogota, on the 26th and 27th of March, the Property Services Sector was formally established in the Americas as a result of a process of consultation and dialogue with the region’s affiliates.
- International demonstration against Prosegur abuses of its Colombian employees. More than 100 workers and trade unionists from the private security and cleaning sectors in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Colombia will protest today in front of Prosegur’s Colombian headquarters in Bogotá.
- 17th Meeting of UNI Americas Steering Council. On the 25th of March, the 17th Meeting of UNI Americas Steering Council was held in Bogota, Colombia, with the attendance also of the Presidents of all sectors.
- A new milestone in Brazil: UNI signs global framework agreement with Banco Itaú. UNI Global Union and its affiliates from the Americas have signed an historic global agreement with the largest private bank in Brazil, Banco Itaú. Banco Itaú is a powerhouse in the Brazilian and Americas financial market and employees over 80,000 staff. UNI now has 51 global framework agreements with multinationals and leading companies around the world.
- UNI Americas visits Chile’s new Minister of Labour. A delegation comprising the President of UNI Americas, Ruben Cortina, the Director of the Commerce Sector, Eduardo San Roman, the President of Conatracops, Claudio Sagardías, and International Relations Secretary, Claudio Aravena, met with the new Minister of Labour, Ms. Javiera Blanco, part of President Michel Bachelet’s government which recently took office.
- UNI Graphical & Packaging and Kimberly-Clark Corporation Renew "Joint Statement". The organizations agreed to extend their global dialogue another year based on the progress made in strengthening their relationship, with a goal of further strengthening regional union/management networks in 2014.
- 3 years failing to comply with the Obama-Santos Labour Action Plan. "Of the 37 measures that the Colombian government agreed to adopt (prior to the signing of the FTA with the US), 7 have not been implemented yet, and of the other 30 that were adopted, several can be classified as partial and insufficient" reads the report-assessment on the Obama-Santos Labour Action Plan presented this morning at a press conference by the Colombian union confederations, CUT and CTC, and the AFL-CIO, the main union confederation of the United States, with the technical support of the National Union School (ENS in Spanish) and the Colombian Action Network on Free Trade (Recalca in Spanish).
- Colombia: The birth of a union in Papeles Familia Sancela (SCA). On the 22nd of February, 2014, a group of workers of Papeles Familia Sancela, a company owned by the Swedish multinational SCA, decided to form a union as a tool for defending their labour and social rights, and thus exercising the constitutional right to freedom of association.
- Meeting of Commerce workers in Walmart Brazil. On 7 May last, the Walmart Brazil network held another meeting. The venue this time was the headquarters of SENTACOS in Sao Paolo. Participants included representatives from CUT/Contracts, UGT, Força Sindical and CNTC, the National Federation of Commerce Workers. This was the first time CNTC attended such a meeting and they were given a very warm welcome.
- Training of young union promoters: For more Decent Work. From the 26th of May to the 25th of July, the distance course for young union members will be held.
- Start of the Tutoring program for UNI women union members. On the 14th and 15th of April, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first Tutorial program for Women Union Members was held. This program’s objective is to build a strong network of young union members in the regions and increase the number of young women in unions.
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