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Olga Vinogradova (UNI) and Leif Mettavainio (Grafiska) visited Sunne and the Tetra Pak plant on Friday 23 of January.



They met Ronny Larsson, union president at Tetra Pak plant in Sunne and one of the experienced and active members of the Tetra Pak European Work Council. Discussion was focused around development of global network in the company and European experiences. Ronny Larsson welcomed the idea of global trade union coordination on decent work and trade union rights in the company and insured that he together with other union colleagues from EWC will contribute the process. The EWC of Tetra Pak is very active and effective, and UNI Graphical is very enthusiastic to participate in the EWC meeting early May 2009 in Budapest.



Tetra Pak International SA (Tetra Pak- http://www.tetrapak.com) is a multinational company that develops, produces and markets complete processing, packaging and distribution systems for food stuffs (originally Swedish-based ). It has 20 859 employees. As of October 2008, Tetra Pak has following number of locations around the globe:

11 Machine assembly plants,

43 Production plants for packaging material and closures,

43 Market companies,

72 Sales offices,

12 R&D units

43 Technical Service centres,

17 Technical Training centres.

For more información, please contact olga.vinogrodova@uniglobalunion.org