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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).
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.
The oldest global trade union organizations include the World Federation of Trade Unions created in 1945. The largest trade union federation in the world is the Brussels -based International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), created in 2006, [48] which has approximately 309 affiliated organizations in 156 countries and territories, with a ...
Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations. Fire Services Association. Managers and Supervisors Association. National Petroleum Staff Association. National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago. National Union of Domestic Employees. National Union of Government and Federated Workers.
When the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) was founded in September 1945, it invited the IFCTU to join. Delegates to an October congress in Brussels voted to reject the invitation, on the grounds that the WFTU's global unity was "too artificial".
A global union federation (GUF) is an international federation of national trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups. Historically, such federations in the social democratic tradition described as international trade secretariats (ITS), while those in the Christian democratic tradition described themselves as international trade federations.
The World Trade Union Conference between 6–17 February 1945 was participated in by countries from all around the world, at County Hall, London. [1] Regarded as a significant moment within the international labour movement as it was the first time that workers from around the world came together to influence international politics.