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USi
Union Solidarity International
Founded2010 (2010)
Headquarters
  • Manchester, England
  • Glasgow, Scotland
Location
  • United Kingdom
Key people
  • Geoffrey Shears
  • Keith Sonnet
  • Dave Spooner
  • Walton Pantland
Websiteusilive.org

Union Solidarity International (USI) was a UK-based organisation using new media to support international trade union solidarity campaigns. It is supported by Unite, the GMB, the RMT, the GFTU and a number of other UK, Irish and international unions.

Inspired by the Arab Spring, as well as effective use of social media by the Occupy movement, the organisation uses technology to build member to member solidarity. USi also provides training for trade union activists on using new media for campaigning.

The organisation shares a director with the Global Labour Institute, and has a close relationship with the GLI network.

As of 2014, USI was running a campaign to assist labourers in the brick manufacturing industry in Andhra Pradesh.

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Notes

  1. ^ Geelan, Torsten (August 2013). "Union Solidarity International". Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. 19 (3): 419–424. doi:10.1177/1024258913494062. ISSN 1024-2589. S2CID 154488479.
  2. Wainwright, Oliver (8 January 2014). "Blood bricks: how India's urban boom is built on slave labour". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
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