Union Network International (UNI), calling itself a "global union", is a global union federation for skills and services, gathering national and regional trade unions. It was launched on January 1, 2000. Its more than 900 affiliated unions in 140 countries have 15 million members. Logo of the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, a Public University in Lima, Peru. ... A global union federation is an international federation of national and regional trade unions organising in specific industry sectors or occupational groups, sometimes also known as an international trade secretariat. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
UNI has several sector committees for the industries within its field of organisation. These are: Commerce; finance; telecoms; post; industry, IT and white collar; graphical; property services; media and entertainment; electricity; social insurance and private health care; tourism; hair and beauty.
It is a member of Global Unions. Global Unions is a website, which is jointly owned and managed by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, ICFTU, the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD and ten global union federations. ...
Unions are sometimes thought to be successors to medieval guilds, though this is still being debated by historians.
Unions of workers in the private sector are tightly regulated and overseen by the United States Department of Labor under the authority of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), passed in 1935, which is Administered by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Unions for public sector workers are governed by labor laws and labor boards in each of the 50 states; in many states, typically those in the north, these laws and boards are modeled after the NLRA and the NLRB.
NALC's participation in the UnionNetworkInternational demonstrates the union's solidarity with the unique concerns and problems of postal and other service sector workers elsewhere in the world.
UnionNetworkInternational (UNI) is the global union for skills and services with 1,000 affiliates and 15.5 million members.
The merger, which created UnionNetworkInternational in January 2000, both anticipated and reflected trends (i.e., globalization and technological convergence) that are revolutionizing the service sectors represented by the four international organizations.