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Solidarity Without Borders

Confronted with multinationals and business-friendly trade agreements, unions have begun to act globally

By David Moberg

With John Lennon’s “Imagine” playing in the background, more than 1,000 leaders of service and technology unions from around the world gathered in Chicago in the fall of 2005. As delegates at the Union Network International (UNI) convention, they represented about 15 million workers in 140 countries. The challenge they faced was laid out in bold by the banner before… return to article

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    Another interesting, well-done article from David. However, from the article, it would seem that the only thing that most everything there is to say about globalizing unions can be said by union heads and labor experts. Is “we have to stick together the only thing ‘rank-and-file’ unionists have to say about international solidarity?

    I doubt that David is unaware or uninterested in that aspect. Maybe there’ll be another article with the sub-title, “ Confronted with multinationals…, workers have already been acting globally.” I’ll read that one eagerly too.

    United States Posted by carlosjwj on Feb 18, 2007 at 12:45 PM
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