Telenor unions form global alliance, express solidarity with Bangladesh

Unions representing workers in Telenor gathered in Budapest, Hungary on 6-7 September to form the Telenor Global Union Alliance. All European countries in which Telenor operates were represented in the meeting, which also welcomed delegates from Bangladesh, Malaysia, and India. The unions formed the global alliance in order to better represent workers’ interests in the company, share information and best practices, provide mutual support and solidarity, organize more Telenor workers into unions, and encourage productive industrial relations throughout the group.

The newly formed alliance also expressed its deep concern with the situation in Bangladesh, where the Grameenphone Employees Union (GPEU) has been fighting for recognition since 2012, and provided its full support to the GPEU.

Telenor is one of the world’s major mobile operator with 211 million subscribers. The Oslo, Norway-based company has mobile operations in 13 countries, and employs more than 36,000 people worldwide.

Malaysia was represented by Bro Yaumi, the Vice President of Digi Employees' Union and Sis Hanum from UNI MLC.