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The JCTU emerged from the Joint Trade Unions Research Development Centre (JTURDC) which was founded on 11 September 1980 by the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, the National Workers Union, the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers and the Trade Union Congress. Presidents 1994: Hugh Shearer 2004: Lloyd Goodleigh 2016: Helene Davis-Whyte
The National Workers Union (NWU) is a general trade union in Jamaica. The National Workers Union was founded on 2 April 1952 emerging as a result of a split within the Trade Union Congress and factional alignments within the People's National Party (PNP). The NWU became the main trade union of the PNP. [1] The NWU was a founding member of the ...
The Trade Union Congress is a general trade union in Jamaica. Initially organised as a trade union council to be the labour wing of the People's National Party (PNP) in 1943, the organisation split in 1952 with the formation of the National Workers Union (which maintained alignment with the PNP). The TUC was a founding member of the Jamaica ...
Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions. The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) is a 5,000-member public sector trade union in Jamaica which represents workers in local and national government, governmental corporations, quasi-government bodies and other agencies created by statute. Its members are non-supervisory personnel ...
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.
The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU, also referred to as the Busta Union) is a trade union center in Jamaica established by Sir Alexander Bustamante. The BITU was formed in 1938, as a split from the Jamaica Workers and Tradesmen's Union. It built up a membership of 54,000 within 6 years.
The Jamaica Workers and Tradesmen's Union (JWTU) was a general union in Jamaica. The union was established in 1937, by Allan Coombs, and the Marxist Hugh Clifford Buchanan. Soon after, Percy A. Aiken led a breakaway, the Builders and Allied Trade Union. Alexander Bustamante joined the union, and soon became prominent by writing letters to the ...
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.