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UNI World Congress inspires and supports workers around the globe
Corbyn speaks at the UNI World Congress in Liverpool [UNI Global Union]

PRINCE WILLIAM was in Liverpool last week and even Paul McCartney, but the city’s most important guests came with a different purpose. 

Over 2,000 trade union delegates from over 110 countries came to the city to meet for the four-yearly congress of a union representing 500 trade unions and over 20 million workers. 

Its theme was “Making it Happen” and it showed us all that it certainly was making it happen in eastern Europe, in Africa, in Palestine, in Latin America, with Amazon, with G4S, with DHL, with global companies and by supporting individual activists like Colombian Eric Amador for whom UNI launched a global campaign after he and his family received death threats within hours of the election of the new right-wing government. 

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