Global Unions Will Help Push Employee Free Choice

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Yesterday at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., union leaders from 45 different countries met with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and representatives of U.S. union organizations to discuss the union movement in the United States and the need to work together to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. It’s an exciting chance for global cooperation in the fight to preserve workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for a better life.

Union leaders, representing countries from across the world—Australia, Turkey, Argentina, Italy, Ghana, Sweden and Indonesia, just to name a few—took part in a discussion of the critical issues facing America’s workers.


Guy Ryder, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), an confederation of more than 300 unions from 155 countries, said the freedom to form a union and bargain for better wages and benefits is a basic human right, one that needs to be protected in every country. Union leaders around the world often are shocked, Ryder said, at how workers in the United States are prevented from exercising this freedom.

FULL ARTICLE:
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/01/14/global-unions-will-help-push-employee-free-choice/#more-9166