About UNI Global Union

Building worker power

Securing workers’ rights is the foundation of building workers’ power.

To date, UNI has signed over 50 global agreements and protocols with multinational companies and other stand that establish and reinforce workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain without fear or employer opposition. Many of these agreements also tackle key issues like promoting equality, ending gender-based violence, establishing health and safety committees as well as addressing remote work policies.

UNI’s organizing fund and organizing centres are successfully building unions, growing union capacity and expanding collective bargaining around the globe.

UNI’s dozens of global alliances—coalitions of unions representing workers at multinational employers—are an essential platform for workers to collectively improve conditions and enforce standards.

UNI is the voice of service workers at the global level at international bodies like the ILO, G20 and the OECD.

UNI is one of the founders and negotiators of the International Accord for Health and Safety in the Garment and Textile Industry, a breakthrough, legally-binding agreement which ensures safe work for millions of garment workers.

Through concerted, international action with our member unions and civil society allies, UNI is taking on some of the most daunting challenges facing working people—inequality, precarious work, a just transition, and the closing of democratic spaces— and we can win only through rising together across the world to demand change.