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UNI unions campaign globally for US Employee Free Choice Act

Published: 27 May 2009
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 UNI’s member unions have started making visits to U.S. embassies around the world in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.



Visits in Argentina and Japan in May will be followed with more visits planned all over the world in June.



UNI is working with other Global Unions and the International Trade Union Confederation to provide global support to U.S. unions, who will only enjoy the same level of union rights as other democracies in the world when this bill is passed.



On May 21 the UNI-Argentina Liaison Council visited the Embassy of the United States in Buenos Aires and met with Labour Attaché Heidi Gomez to express UNI and Argentine unions' support for the Employee Free Choice Act. The delegation was headed by the Liaison Council Coordinators Silvia Lopez and Eduardo San Roman and by UNI Americas President Ruben Cortina.



NWJ (All NTT Workers Unoin of Japan, UNI affiliate) met with representatives from the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on May 28, where Tomoyasu Kato, President, NWJ urged the U.S. Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. Robert F. Cekuta, Minister-Counselor, Economic Affairs at the U.S. embassy agreed to communicate this to Washington.



For more information on the Employee Free Choice Act, click here.