International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees

International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees
Native name Fédération internationale des employés, techniciens et cadres
Founded 10 August 1921
Predecessor International Commercial Employees' Secretariat
Date dissolved 31 December 1999
Merged into Union Network International
Members 11 million (1994)[1]
Affiliation ICFTU

The International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees (FIET; French: Fédération internationale des employés, techniciens et cadres) was a global union federation bringing together workers representing clerical workers. The union was sometimes known as the International Federation of Employees, Technicians and Managers, or informally as the International Federation of White Collar Workers' Unions.

The first attempt to create an international federation of clerical workers was the International Commercial Employees' Secretariat, founded in Hamburg in 1909, but it collapsed at the start of World War I. FIET was founded in 1921, in Vienna, as its replacement.[1][2]

Initially representing only European unions, after World War II the federation began admitting unions from around the world. The large majority of workers represented worked in banking, insurance, or as clerical staff in commerce and social services. In 1984, the International Secretariat of Entertainment Trade Unions became an autonomous section of the FIET.[1]

By 1994, membership of FIET had reached 11 million.[1] At the end of 1999, it merged with the Communications International, the International Graphical Federation, and the Media and Entertainment International, to form Union Network International.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Docherty, James C.; van der Velden, Sjaak (2012). Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor. Scarecrow Press. pp. 101, 180. ISBN 0810879883.
  2. ↑ "Fédération internationale des employés, techniciens et cadres (FIET)". Open Yearbook. UIA. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "FAQs". UNI Global Union. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
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