Pancyprian Federation of Labour

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**PEO**
Pancyprian Federation of Labour
Παγκύπρια Εργατική Ομοσπονδία
Founded	1941
Members	68,100
Country	Cyprus
Affiliation	WFTU
Key people	Pambis Kyritsis, general secretary
Office location	Nicosia, Cyprus
Website	peo.org.cy

PEO, the Pancyprian Federation of Labour (Greek: Παγκύπρια Εργατική Ομοσπονδία), is an umbrella organization for trade unions in Cyprus.

It was instrumental in the 1948 strikes in the mines of the Cyprus Mines Corporation and has been closely related to AKEL.

When AKEL was declared illegal by the British colonial government of Cyprus in 1955, PEO and especially its leader Andreas Ziartides was the only legal leftwing political entity and it was expressing the politics of underground AKEL.

PEO had a membership from all ethnic groups in Cyprus. In 1958 the Turkish Cypriot nationalistic organisation TMT launched a terror campaign against Turkish Cypriot members of PEO, killing the journalist Fazil Onder and attempting to kill the head of PEO's Turkish bureau, Ahmet Sadi. Following those events, most Turkish cypriots left the union, and PEO's members since then have primarily been Greek Cypriots.

The PEO is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.