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UNI americas signs important agreement with Argentine Government

Published: 12 April 2010
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 Buenos Aires, April 8th. With the aim of promoting a model of integration of environmental issues to the labour world in the Americas and the Caribbean, UNI Americas Regional Office, represented by its Regional Secretary Raul Requena, and the Secretary of Environment of Argentina, Homero M. Bibiloni, subscribed a cooperation agreement to extend and promote this model in America’s countries. Moreover, this significant ceremony counted with the participation of the Minister of Labour of Argentina, Carlos Tomada.



Raul Requena highlighted the importance of the agreement, and its relation with UNI America’s policies. He pointed out that its spirit is associated with the development of Corporate Social Responsibility and the necessity of creating Decent Work. Besides, he enhanced the role of UNI America’s Young Workers in the concretion of the agreement’s subscription.



The Secretary of Environment underlined the “federal scope” of the agreement, which will be carried out by young workers of different union organisations, under the motto “employment, production, environment and social equity” and “the paradigm of the 21st century”- expressed Bibiloni.



The agreement specifies the axes for the reinforcement and consolidation of the model of integration of workers and their unions to the environmental policies of the States of the Americas, the way it’s working in Argentina presently.



When consulted by the press in relation to the scope of this international agreement, Bibiloni emphasised that –“we have to get productive processes to incorporate people rather than dismiss them, according to a variable of generation of environmental wealth”-in that sense-“the small and medium enterprises which have a greater rotation of workers, have a key role to play”- he concluded.



The act, hosted by Luis Maria Cejas, member of UNI America’s Management Committee and founder of the Unique Federation of Commercial Travellers (FUVA), took place on April 8th in Buenos Aires, in the auditorium of the union organisation and was attended by General Secretaries of the unions affiliated to UNI Americas.



Contact: raul.requena@uniglobalunion.org