29 May, 2014In this issue of “Global Worker” IndustriALL explains how networks in the auto industries and the global framework agreement with garment giant Inditex are helping to defend union rights of millions of workers. Subscribe to receive your hard copies of “Global Worker” or read it online.
Unions in the automotive industry have been at the forefront of the strategy of building genuine union power and uniting workers in networks for solidarity and joint action, including global level corporate campaigns. Global Worker feature “Building global union power in the auto industry” highlights the developments in the auto sector where the first union networks were set up more than 40 years ago.
The benchmark model of a successful Global Framework Agreement (GFA) established in the garment sector back in 2007 between IndustriALL Global Union (then International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF)) and the world’s largest fashion retailer, Inditex, are described in the special report “Inditex and IndustriALL Global Union: Getting results from a global framework agreement”. The agreement has helped to reinstate workers expelled for being union activists, raise salaries and promote freedom of association in countries where unionization has traditionally been weak.
Our readers will find a number of profiles and reports from different parts of the world talking about trade union solidarity and unity, challenges and fights faced by unions in former Soviet Union countries, Colombia, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) profiling Josée Shimbi Umba, first deputy general secretary responsible for women’s issues at the Council of Metalworkers unions of the DRC (CSC) talking about her union fight for the rights of women in an environment of extreme exploitation and abuse.
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