Global Partnerships

Making Globalization Work for Workers

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Uniting Across Borders • Assisting with organizing campaigns and helping develop strategies to help workers • Participating in organizing exchanges to share ideas and learn from each other • Winning for U.S. workers by helping bring up standards in the industries we’re organizing

On every continent, in virtually every country, the story is the same. Corporate power is on the rise, and the power of workers is in decline.

The promises of globalization have yet to materialize for most workers and their families. Increasingly, around the world, workers’ incomes are shrinking, forcing them to live with greater insecurity, while social safety nets are being dismantled.

While multinational corporations are amassing even greater strength, unions—formed to help working people improve their lives—are shrinking in power and influence. In most countries, the labor movement is getting weaker at the time when it needs to be the strongest.

Coming Together in Global Partnerships

SEIU is committed to ensuring that the benefits of globalization are shared with workers and their families—not just corporate elites. Increasingly, service sector corporations are becoming multinational employers, with branches and partnerships that employ workers around the globe.

SEIU’s Global Organizing program works with partner unions and global union federations to organize these workers across borders.

Our counterpart unions in other countries are also committed to arresting the decline in the power that unions have experienced around the world. We are sharing the same campaigns. We’re sharing best practices, and we have committed ourselves to checking this decline.

Public Services International

International Transport Workers’ Federation

UNI Property Services Global Union: G4S Alliance for Justice Campaign