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11 unions. Key people. Wayne Jones, general secretary. Affiliations. ITUC. The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) is a national trade union centre in Jamaica. It is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation.
The Jamaican Federation of Labour was a national trade union federation bringing together trade unions in Jamaica. In 1917, A. Bain-Alves set up a new union of cigar makers, and led a strike. Bain-Alves also led strikes of longshoremen, coal heavers and banana carriers, setting up unions for each group of workers.
1,338,000. Bahamas. Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress (CBTUC) National Congress of Trade Unions (NCTU) Bangladesh. Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SKOP) Bangladesh Garments Workers Unity Council (BGWUC) National Coordination Committee for Workers' Education (NCCWE)
This had 1,000 members a year later, but disintegrated in 1952 following disagreements on whether to merge into another new split from the TUC, the National Workers' Union. In 1953, there was another split, forming the Jamaica Federation of Trade Unions, affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions. This group founded the Sugar and ...
Gladys Longbridge. . (m. 1962) . Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante ONH GBE PC (born William Alexander Clarke; 24 February 1884 – 6 August 1977) was a Jamaican politician and labour leader, who, in 1962, became the first prime minister of Jamaica.
J. Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers. Jamaica Civil Service Association. Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions. Jamaica Teachers' Association. Jamaica Union of Teachers. Jamaica Workers and Tradesmen's Union. Jamaican Federation of Labour.
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, [1] such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of ...
Jesus College, Oxford (BCL) Profession. Lawyer. Norman Washington Manley ONH MM QC (4 July 1893 – 2 September 1969) was a Jamaican statesman who served as the first and only Premier of Jamaica. A Rhodes Scholar, [1] Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. [2] Manley was an advocate of universal suffrage, which was granted ...