International Confederation of Free Trade Unions/Summary
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The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) is the largest international trade union confederation in the world. It claims 157 million members in 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries and territiories.
The ICFTU was created December 7, 1949 following an ideological split within the World Federation of Trade Unions. A large number of non-communist national trade union federations (including the U.S. AFL-CIO, the British TUC, the French CFDT, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries.
The ICFTU has three regional organizations, APRO for Asia and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas and Caribbean. The ICFTU also maintains close links with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) (which includes all ICFTU European affiliates) and Global Union Federations, which link together national unions from a particular trade or industry at international level.
Every year the ICFTU publishes an annual report which documents violations by governments, industries, and military and police forces against both workers and related trade unions.
