Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers

The Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers was a trade union international affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.

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History

The TUI was founded at a conference in Warsaw, Poland in December 1949. Its original name was the Trade Union International of Agricultural and Forestry Workers.[1][2]

In 1997 the Trade Union International of Agroalimentary, Food, Commerce, Textile & Allied Industries was formed by the merger of the Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers, Trade Union International of Food, Tobacco, Hotel and Allied Industries Workers, Trade Union International of Workers in Commerce, Trade Union International of Textile, Leather and Fur Workers Unions.[3]

Organization

By 1985 the TUI had branch commissions representing workers in agriculture, plantations, the forestry industry and peasant workers.[4]

In 1955 the headquarters of the organization was located at 19 Via Boncampagni, Rome.[5] In 1985 its address was reported as Opletalova 57 Prague 1, Czechoslovakia.[6] However, by 1989 it had moved to Serpoukhovkaia 44, 113093 Moscow[7] were it stayed until at least 1991.[8]

Conferences

  • 1st Warsaw, December 1949 - attended by delegates from the Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania representing 6.57 million members. Unions in Brazil, Albania, North Korea and Tunisia also affiliated.[9]
  • 2nd, 1951 - attended by 205 delegates and observers (66 from Latin America) representing 146 national and regional organizations.[10]
  • 7th Moscow, 1975[11]
  • 9th Warsaw, October 3–6, 1983 - 110 organizations from 71 countries (members and observers) representing 73 million workers attended.[12]

Members

The following groups were affiliated with the TUI in 1978.[13]

  •  Albania - Union Professionelle des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture, et des Forets
  •  Angola - União dos Trabalhadores Angolanos
  •  Argentina - Union de Productores Agropecuarios de Republica Argentina
  •  Bangladesh - Chittagong Tea Garden Workers Union
  •  Benin - Fédération Nationale des Syndicats des Travailleurs de la Production Vegetale et Animale de Benin
  •  Bolivia - Unión Nacional de Campesinos
  •  Bulgaria - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture et des Industrie Alimentaire
  •  Chile - Confederación Nacional Campesina e Indigena de Chile - RANQUIL
  •  China - National Committee of the Chinese Agricultural, Forestry and Water Conservancy Workers' Union
  •  Colombia - FENSA
  •  Congo - Fédération Syndicale des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture et des Forets - FESYTRAF
  •  Costa Rica - Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de Plantaciones
  •  Cuba - Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Forestales
  •  Cyprus - Cyprus Agricultural, Forestry General Workers' Trade Union
  •  Czechoslovakia - Fédération des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture
  •  Ecuador - Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios
  •  El Salvador - Asociación de Trabajadores Agropecuarios de El Salvador - ATACES
  •  France - Federation of Agricultural and Forestry Workers - CGT
  •  East Germany - Fédération des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture, de l'Industrie Alimentaire, et des Forets
  •  Ghana - General Agricultural Workers, Union of the Trade Union Congress
  •  Guyana - Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union
  •  Hungary - Fédération des Travailleurs Agricoles et Forestiers
  •  India - Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union
  •  India - All India Agricultural Workers Union
  •  Iraq - General Union of Agricultural Workers
  •  Italy - Federazione Nazionale Braccianti Salariati Coloni, Technici, Impeigati, Agricoli
  •  Jordan - General Union of Agricultural Forestry and Plantation Workers of Jordan
  •  North Korea - Union des Travailleurs Agricoles de Corree
  •  Madagascar - Fedération des Syndicats des Travailleurs de Madagascar - FISEMA
  •  Mauritius - Agricultural Workers Union
  •  Mexico - Central Independiente de Oberos Agricolas y Campesinos de Mexico
  •  Mongolia - Comite Central du Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture
  •    Nepal - Nepal Beekeepers' Association
  •  Nicaragua - Confederación de Campesinos y de Trabajodores de Nicaragua
  •  Nigeria - Federation of Agricultural Workers' Union of Nigeria
  •  Palestine - General Union of Palestinian Peasants
  •  Poland - Fedération des Syndicats des Travailleurs Agricoles
  •  Romania - Union des Syndicats des Enterprises et Institutes Agricoles
  •  Sierra Leone - Transport Agricultural and General Workers' Union
  •  Soviet Union - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture
  •  Sri Lanka - United Plantation Workers' Union
  •  Syria - Union Generale des Paysans
  •  Togo - SYNASCOT
  •  Vietnam - Syndicat National de Travaileurs de Forets de Vietnam
  •  South Yemen - Trade Union of Agricultural Workers

Leadership

General Secretaries

1949: Ilio Bosi
1960: Vincenzo Galetti
1960s: Gioachino Ghisio
c.1970: Claude Billault
1980: Gerard Laugier
1980s: André Hemmerle

Presidents

1949: Suleiman Tjugito

See also

References

  1. Coldrick, A. Percy and Jones, Philip. The international directory of the trade union movement New York : Facts on File, [1978] p.171
  2. Directory of World Federation of Trade Unions Washington Office of International Labor Affairs, December 1958 p.51
  3. Europa World Year Book London; Taylor & Francis, 2004 p.342
  4. The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985. Prague; Published by the WTFU in cooperation with PRACE Czechoslovak Trade Unions 1985 p.149
  5. Directory of World Federation of Trade Unions Washington Office of International Labor Affairs, June 1955 p.49
  6. The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.149
  7. Coggins, John Trade unions of the world 1989-1990 Harlow : Longman, 1989 2nd ed. p.451
  8. Upham, Martin Trade unions of the world, 1992-1993. Harlow, Essex, U.K. : Longman; Detroit, Mich. : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by Gale Research Inc., 1991 p.558
  9. Coldrick and Jones p.171
  10. Coldrick and Jones p.171
  11. Coldrick and Jones p.171
  12. The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985 p.149
  13. Coldrick and Jones pp.173-4


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