Philadelphia Hundreds of unionized office cleaners, maintenance staff, mechanics and other building workers marched, chanted and carried picket signs and banners through Philadelphia’s center city on Aug. 29. The energetic march was held to demonstrate workers’ resolve for a just contract during

Groups of banner-carrying workers from Brazil, India, Ital Pakistan, South Korea, Tunisia and other countries joined the march. They were in Philadelphia for the World Congress of UNI Global Union, “a global union federation for the skills and services sectors.” This international federation “has affiliated unions in 150 countries representing 20 million workers.” (uniglobalunion.org)

UNI’s presence and solidarity demonstrated that the fight for workers’ rights knows no borders.