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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.
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, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees ...
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 ...
Saint Andrew, Jamaica. Political party. Jamaica Labour Party. Spouse. 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.
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is a trade union representing education workers in Jamaica. In 1961, the Jamaica Union of Teachers, the Association of Headmasters and Headmistresses, the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, the Association of Teacher Training Staffs, and the Association of Assistant Masters and Mistresses ...
The British Guiana Labour Union dated to 1919, and the Longshoremen Union had a chapter in Jamaica from the early years of the century. In addition, there was a general increase in nationalist and pro-independence sentiments in the 1930s. The labour unions were organised as general political organisations or broad-based social movements.
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Jamaica's first political parties emerged in the late 1920s, while workers association and trade unions emerged in the 1930s. The development of a new Constitution in 1944, universal male suffrage, and limited self-government eventually led to Jamaican Independence in 1962 with Alexander Bustamante serving as its first prime minister. The ...