ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation
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ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation | |
Founded | 1951 |
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Members | 30 million in 28 countries[1] |
Country | Asia and Pacific Region |
Affiliation | ICFTU |
Key people | Sharan Burrow, president Noriyuki Suzuki, general secretary |
Website | www.icftu-apro.org/ |
The ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation (ICFTU-APRO) is a regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions representing trade unions from countries in Asia and Oceania. It has 40 affiliated organisations in 28 countries, claiming a membership of 30 million people.
The ICFTU-APRO was founded in 1951 as the Asian Regional Organisation, and changed to its current name in 1984. On its website, the organisation describes its aims thus:
- The organisation seeks to bring about a just, welfare society with a higher standard of living. It believes that promoting a higher wage policy and the dignity and status of workers through a stronger trade union movement will help achieve this. Equipping workers with the skills to fight for fundamental rights, including the setting up of bona fide trade unions is perhaps its major undertaking. Under its current structure, ICFTU-APRO tackles education, information, social and economic policy, women, human and trade union rights and youth among its areas of work.
The following national organisations are affiliated to ICFTU-APRO (ordered by country):
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Free Trade Union Congress
- Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal
- Bangladesh Labour Federation
- Bangladesh Mukto Sramik Federation
- Jatiya Sramik League
- Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Cook Islands
- Cook Islands Workers Association Incorporated
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- A Tia I Mua
- Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
- Hong Kong & Kowloon Trades Union Council
- India
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kiribati
- Kiribati Trades Union Congress
- South Korea
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Nepal
- New Caledonia
- Union Des Syndicates des Oudriers et Employes de Nouvelle Caledonie
- New Zealand
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Trade Union Congress of Philippines
- Samoa
- Samoa Trades Union Congress
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Turkey
- Confederation of Revolutionary Trade Unions of Turkey
- Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions
- The Confederation of Turkish Real Trade Unions
- Confederation of Public Servants Trade Unions
- Vanuatu
[edit] See also
- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
- ICFTU African Regional Organisation
- ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers
- European Trade Union Confederation
- List of federations of trade unions