UNI Global Union, formerly Union Network International (UNI), is a

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for the skills and services sectors, gathering national and regional

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. It has affiliated unions in 150 countries representing 20 million workers. The head office is in

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. UNI Global Union ratified over 50 Global Framework Agreements with

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as of 2021.

History

UNI was the result of the merger of four organisations: International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees (FIET),

Media and Entertainment International The Media and Entertainment International (MEI) was a global union federation representing workers in the arts. The federation was founded in 1993 with the merger of the International Secretariat of Arts, Communications, Media and Entertainment ...

(MEI),

International Graphical Federation The International Graphical Federation (IGF) was a global union federation bringing together unions of printing workers around the world. History Moved to establish the federation began in 1939, when the Lithographers' International, Internati ...

(IGF) and

Communications International The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International (PTTI) was a global union federation bringing together unions of communications workers worldwide. History While a meeting of unions of communication workers was held in Paris in 1911, no lasting ...

(CI). They merged on 1 January 2000, to form Union Network International. On 2 March 2009, the federation changed its name to UNI Global Union.

Leadership

General Secretaries

:2000: Philip Jennings :2018: Christy Hoffman

Presidents

:2000:

Kurt van Haaren Kurt van Haaren (19 July 1938 – 13 July 2005) was a German trade union leader. Born in Emmerich, van Haaren attended the Dortmund Social Academy, then began working for the Deutsche Bundespost, delivering mail. He joined the German Postal ...

:2001:

Maj-Len Remahl Maj-Len Anita Remahl (born 3 December 1942) is a Finnish former trade union leader. Born in Vaasa as Maj-Len Rönnholm, she grew up in a Swedish-speaking family in Sepänkylä, then in Palosaari and Huutoniemi. She was educated at the Vaasa S ...

:2003:

Joseph T. Hansen Joseph T. Hansen is a North American labor leader, best known for his work as president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). Early life Hansen was born in Chicago in 1942. He was the eldest of four children. His ...

:2010: Joe de Bruyn :2014:

Ann Selin Ann Orvokki Selin (born 22 July 1960) is a Finnish former trade union leader. Born in Helsinki, Selin began working in 1976, as a clerk for the Commercial Workers' Union. In 1987, the union merged into the Business Union, for which Selin beca ...

:2018: Ruben Cortina

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