ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers
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Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers | |
Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores | |
Founded | 1951 |
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Members | 45 million in 27 countries |
Country | The Americas |
Affiliation | ICFTU |
Key people | Victor Báez Mosqueira, president |
Office location | Caracas, Venezuela |
Website | www.cioslorit.org/ |
The ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers (CIOSL/ORIT) is a regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions representing trade unions from the Americas. The organisation has 41 affiliated or fraternal organisations, in 27 countries, representing 45 million workers.
The COISL/ORIT was formed in 1951, and describes its objective as being to work for independent, autonomous, democratic unions throughout the Americas. The organisation carries out work in a range of fields.
The following national organisations are affiliated with the CIOSL/ORIT (ordered by country):
- Argentina
- Barbados
- Belize
- National Trade Union Congress of Belize (Fraternal, not affiliated)
- Brazil
- Central Unica de Trabajadores
- Confederación General de Trabajadores (Brazil)
- Fuerza Sindical
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Confederación de Trabajadores de Colombia
- Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia (Frat.)
- Costa Rica
- Dominica
- Waterfront Allied Workers Union
- Ecuador
- Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones
- El Salvador
- Central de Trabajadores Democráticos
- Unión Nacional de Trabajadores Campesinos (Frat.)
- USA
- Guatemala
- Confederación de Unidad Sindical de Guatemala
- Unidad Sindical de Trabajadores de Guatemala (Frat.)
- Central de Trabajadores del Campo (Frat.)
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Confederación de Trabajadores de Honduras
- Confederación Unica de Trabajadores de Honduras
- Jamaica
- Jamaican Confederation of Trade Unions
- Mexico
- Confederation of Mexican Workers
- Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros Campesinos
- Unión Nacional de Trabajadores
- Monserat
- Monserrat Allied Workers' Union
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Central Unica de Trabajadores
- Peru
- Confederación Gral de Trabajadores del Perú
- Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú
- Dominican Republic
- Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores Dominicana
- Confederación de Trabajadores Unitarios
- Suriname
- Algemeen Verbond van Vakverenigingen de Moederbond (Frat.)
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Uruguay
- Asociación de Bancarios del Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Confederación Trabajadores de Venezuela
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[edit] Role in Destabilizing Democratically elected Haitian government
In June 2006 an American Labor Magazine, Labor Notes, documented the role that the ORIT, ICFTU, ILO, and the AFL-CIO played in supporting a destabilization campaign. ORIT ignored massive labor persecution against public sector workers and trade unionist supporters of the ousted government throughout 2004, 2005, and 2006. See http://labornotes.org/archives/2006/06/articles/f.shtml
[edit] See also
- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
- ICFTU African Regional Organisation
- ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation
- European Trade Union Confederation
- List of federations of trade unions
[edit] References
- (2005) ICTUR et al,: Trade Unions of the World, 6th, London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.
[edit] External links
- CIOSL/ORIT website (in Spanish)