The Impacts of WTO Membership on Cambodia’s Labor and Employment by: Christopher Ng Regional Secretary of UNI Asia Pacific Regional Organization I commend the Cambodia Institute for Cooperation and Peace and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Germany for the initiative to organize this public forum to discuss an issue of wide ranging implications for Cambodia, namely Cambodia’s membership in WTO. I thank you for your kind invitation and I am delighted to be here with you. I am particularly grateful to be given the opportunity to share with you the general trade unions’ perspective of the impacts of WTO membership and some of our main concern about the present globalization process, especially its impact on workers and employment. Let me start with a brief introduction about United Network International(UNI). UNI APRO that I represent is the Asian Pacific Regional Organization of UNI – the International Trade Union for skills and service employees. UNI came into being on 1st. January 2000 as a result of the merger of four International Trade Unions. They are FIET(International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees) representing white-collar and service employees, CI(Communications International) representing the telecommunications and postal employees, IGF (International Graphical Federation) representing the graphical workers and MEI(Media and Entertainment and Arts International) for media, entertainment and art employees. 114