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Philip
J. Jennings, UNI General Secretary
"We
have more members in more countries than ever before.
A
global economy requires a global union. UNI Global
Union
is the answer."
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Welsh-born Philip Jennings is the first General Secretary of UNI Global Union -
which was launched in 2000 as a union innovation to address global challenges.
It brought the message that unions are adapting to a borderless world; that they
have strategies to deal with global labour markets and that they are reaching
out in new ways to working people wherever they are.
UNI is the Global Union for skills and services, covering a range of largely
private sector service industries, including commerce, banking, telecom,
business and information technologies, graphical, property services, media and
entertainment and the post and logistics sectors.
UNI brings together 900 unions from 150 countries around the world and aims to
make its 20 million affiliated members global players.
Philip has been a critical commentator on the role of private equity in the
global economy.
Under his leadership, UNI has been transformed into a global union with global
organising initiatives in multinational companies and with a focus on building a
global dialogue between unions and multinational corporations.
UNI’s
sectors are dominated by multinationals – around 100. The plan is to reach a
global rights’ agreement with each of them, covering internationally
recognised core labour standards and decent work. Agreements have already been
reached with twenty leading companies and the aim is to have fifty by 2010.
Philip has been a link between the Global Union family and the World Economic
Forum to ensure that the concerns of working people and their unions are
acknowledged by the business and political community.
Philip was previously General Secretary of the white collar FIET and began his
trade union career with the
UK
finance union.
Educated in
Cardiff
, Philip took a Masters in Economics at the London School of Economics in 1976
following a BA (Hons) Business Affairs from Bristol Polytechnic.
Born in 1953, he is married with two children.
See
his speeches
.
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Philip
Bowyer, UNI Deputy General Secretary
Philip Bowyer is UNI's first
Deputy General Secretary. Before the merger he was General
Secretrary of the Communications International (CI), one of the
founding partners of UNI...
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...Philip Bowyer was first elected General Secretary of the
Communications International (formerly PTTI) by the 26th World
Congress (Brighton, 1989) and reelected at the Lisbon Congress,
1993, and Montreal Congress, 1997.
He was born in 1947 in South Wales, United Kingdom.
He was awarded his first degree from the University of Sussex in
1968 and a degree of MA in Labour Studies from the University of
Warwick in 1970.
After working for a time in the civil service, he was appointed
research assistant in the Union of Post Office Workers (now
Communication Workers Union), in October 1970 and, in 1976, the PTTI
Executive Committee, appointed him as Research Officer.
He was promoted to Organisation and Research Director in 1980.
Philip Bowyer organised and participated in educational programmes
and activities of the International in many countries in each of the
regions of the world, including Poland with Solidarnosc in the 1980’s,
and with the Postal and Telecommunications workers of South Africa
during the apartheid years.
Philip Bowyer also represented the PTTI in different international
bodies such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the
institutions of the European Community.
Since being elected General Secretary, the International has
established Joint Committees of equal number of employers and union
representatives of Postal and Telecommunications Services from every
country in the European Union.
In recent years, he has been responsible for numerous PTTI
initiatives to meet the challenge of changes in communications,
including the expansion of multinational companies and the emergence
of multimedia. The International has established union alliances
such as the Ameritech Alliance to face the challenge of telecom
companies worldwide.
He has led the campaign to create a new international trade union
covering workers in the communications, media and services sectors.
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