Union TV Goes Global

Union TV Goes Global

LONDON, July 7/PRNewswire/ --

In a feature to be screened at 10.30am and 7pm on Monday 7th July on RED TV, channel 186 on Sky Digital, Union TV will expose the reality of globalisation and explain why Unite and the American union the USW has joined forces to create the first global union.

Politicians and corporations notably in the UK and USA promote the virtues of one global economic model at the expense of all others. This is a model based on privatisation and unfettered capitalism. 57% of the world's wealth is currently owned by 1% of the world's population. Unite, the UK's biggest union and the USW, the largest private sector union in the USA and Canada, have signed an agreement creating the first global union.

The union, to be called Workers Uniting, and will represent three million working people from every industrial sector in Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada and the Caribbean. The agreement to form a global union was initiated by the leaders of the two unions in response to the challenges of Globalisation. In particular, the casualisation of employment and reductions in pay and conditions for millions of working people in North America and Europe.

Unite, joint general secretary, Derek Simpson says

"The political and economic power of multi-national companies is formidable. They are able to play one nation's workers off against another to maximise profits. They do the same with governments hence the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us. With this agreement between Unite and the USW we can finally begin the process of closing that gap."

Contact Ciaran Naidoo +44(0)7768-931-315

Source: Unite the Union

Contact Ciaran Naidoo +44(0)7768-931-315

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