Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions

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The Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerger Chrëschtleche Gewerkschaftsbond, French: Fédération des syndicats chrétiens luxembourgeois), abbreviated to LCGB, is a Luxembourgian national trade union center. It is a federation of trade unions that, as its statutes state, abide by the 'principles of Christian social teachings'.[1] It is affiliated to the World Confederation of Labour and the International Trade Union Confederation, having been affiliated to the Christian democratic European Trade Union Confederation.[2]

By membership, the LCGB is the second-largest trade union federation in the country, with 40,000 members; the Luxembourg Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (OGBL), is the largest, with 58,000 members.[3] These two federations are dominant in the private sector, except the twin areas of banking and insurance, which have an independent union. In a highly-unionised country (in which 46% of employees are unionised), the LCGB represents 27% of all trade unionists.[3]

It is nominally politically independent,[1] although it has long-standing political ties to the Christian Social People's Party (CSV).[3] Whilst the LCGB supports the CSV and the OGBL the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, the two have good relations, as manifest in their formation of a shared bureau for the steel industry in 2002.[3]

The General Secretary of the LCGB is Marc Spautz, a CSV member of the Chamber of Deputies.

[edit] List of Presidents

  • Michel Wolff (1921 – 1924)
  • Mathias Dossing (1924 – 1938)
  • Jean-Baptiste Rock (1938 – 1951)
  • Léon Wagner (1951 – 1966)
  • Pierre Schockmel (1967)
  • Jean Spautz (1967 – 1980)
  • Marcel Glesener (1980 – 1996)
  • Robert Weber (1996 – )

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b (German) LCGB Statuten. Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.
  2. ^ The Social Partners. International Labour Organisation. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.
  3. ^ a b c d Fulton, L. (2007). Trade Unions. Worker Representation in Europe. Labour Research Department. Retrieved on 2008-05-19.

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