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02/03/2009Situación de la prevención de riesgos laborales en sociedades y clubes profesionales de fútbol
01/20/2009EURO-MEI and EASE conference on the contractual landscape in the sport sector
01/16/2009IFJ and UNI-MEI issue joint statement on state aid in public service broadcasting
12/30/2008Korean media workers on strike for independence of the media
12/18/2008EURO-MEI General Assembly to take place in Rome, 9-10 June 2009
12/11/2008Arabic Speaking Broadcasting Workers’ Conference
Looks at New Technology, Safety, Equality and Commercial TV
12/11/2008Peru : Tragic Death of Technician on Film Set
Sparks Organisation, Better Standards
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UNI-MEI Policy Goals and Activities
UNI-MEI
caters to the special concerns of unions and similar associations whose members are engaged in mass media, entertainment and the arts.
UNI-MEI
serves as a point of contact for its affiliates and the members they represent in this increasingly internationalised sector. It is a clearing house for information useful to them, particularly that regarding binational or multinational productions, or movement of employees across national borders.
It is concerned
with issues ranging from ownership structural evolution, trade policy and technological change to copyright and neighbouring rights, piracy and censorship. It acts to exchange information about collective agreements, legal standards and practices of the categories it represents at an international level, aiming where relevant and feasible to temper chaotic labour relations and practices with common regional or wider minimums in consultations with employers or in practice alone by employee concertation.
Recent activities have included
conferences on changes in broadcasting, health and safety in studio and location production, problems of freelance film and video production workers, the advertising sector, and cinema exhibition. It has opened a campaign in support of public service broadcasting, and has begun initiatives ranging from defending screen writers to focusing on the special concerns of such groups as theatre staff and plastic artists.
UNI-MEI sees part of its role
as encouraging stronger links between those active in the media, entertainment and the arts and the trade union movement in general. Other activities include coordinating solidarity with affiliates and others in the sector, both in industrialised countries and in developing ones, in cases of labour disputes, infringement of trade union or human rights or of freedom of expression in the arts or media. It seeks to stimulate audio-visual production and the arts. It also has observer status with several inter-governmental bodies. It seeks to identify and defend the interests of its members in these bodies and in other international public policy arenas.

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