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The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade unions established in 1945. Founded in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the organization built on the pre-war legacy of the International Federation of Trade Unions as a single structure for trade unions world-wide, following the World Trade Union Conference in London, United Kingdom.
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) is made up of ten global union federations (which affiliates national-level sectoral trade unions), the largest international federation of national centres (the ITUC) and the trade union body to the OECD (TUAC).
Red. The Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) is a pro-Beijing labour and political group established in 1948 in Hong Kong. It is the oldest and largest labour group in Hong Kong with over 420,000 members in 253 affiliates and associated trade unions. [ 1 ] Presided by Ng Chau-pei and chaired by Kingsley Wong, it currently holds four ...
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is the national trade union center and people's organization of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 302 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations. [3] The ACFTU is divided into 31 regional federations and 10 national industrial unions.
The International Federation of Trade Unions (also known as the Amsterdam International) was an international organization of trade unions, existing between 1919 and 1945. IFTU had its roots in the pre-war IFTU. IFTU had close links to the Labour and Socialist International. [1] The IFTU was opposed by the Communist-controlled trade unions.
In February 1950, the first congress of the Beijing Trade Union was held and formally established, with Peng Zhen, the secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, being elected as the first chairman of the Federation of Trade Unions. [3] [4] The fifteenth Congress of the Beijing Trade Union convened on May 8 ...
United Kingdom. Members. 214,000. Key people. Gawain Little, General Secretary. Website. www.gftu.org.uk. The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It has 35 affiliates with a membership of just over 214,000 and describes itself as the "federation for specialist unions".
History. The federation was formed on 1 November 2006 out of the merger of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL). The Founding Congress of the ITUC was held in Vienna and was preceded by the dissolution congresses of both the ICFTU and the WCL.