UNI World Executive Board enthusiastically supports ‘Breaking Through’
The UNI Global Union World Executive Board (WEB) gave an enthusiastic response to the new strategic plan “Breaking Through”.
UNI has created “Breaking Through” to lay out the strategic priorities of supporting organising, justice for workers and human and trade union rights and to ensure that all of its work leads to concrete results for its 20 million members. This organising challenge is stark in many parts of the world where 75 per cent of workers are employed in the services and allied sectors.
Our aim is to build relationships and build our power to improve working conditions in a global jobs market characterised by precarious work and inequality to ensure that our energy and resources are dedicated to organising in the services sector.
UNI has created a new department devoted to Strategic Campaigns, Organising, Research and Education called UNI SCORE to spearhead this work. A new organising fund will also be established.
Unions everywhere are faced with a common organising challenge; the executive endorsed the plan that will involve UNI action globally, regionally and in the sectors.
“Breaking Through” is the strategic action plan for UNI from its Nagasaki Congress in 2010 to its Cape Town Congress in 2014.
“This plan will transform our work,” said UNI General Secretary Philip Jennings. “This will strengthen unions, strengthen UNI and strengthen workers’ ability to organise.”
The WEB gave unanimous support to the initiative and the strategic plans created for the UNI sectors and regions.
The five key objectives are:
· To build organising strength within the global corporations operating in our sectors and to negotiate global and regional agreements
· To gain union recognition in the industries where UNI sectors operate and to further facilitate union growth by building the capacity to support organising campaigns worldwide
· To raise employment standards in the services sector
· To change global and regional processes of integration and regulatory frameworks and be a recognised partner in these processes
· To operate an effective innovative and well-run UNI Global Union and to secure the active involvement of all affiliates and their members in our work
These difficult times require innovation and creative thinking about they way we work.