All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union

The All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union (ATSGWTU) is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. It was founded in 1937 to represent workers in the sugar industry, but expanded its scope in 1978 to include workers in a variety of sectors.

Due to the closing of the sugar industry in Trinidad and Tobago, the ATSGWTU has lost around 10,000 members over the past four years. The union is currently restructuring and attempting to focus on continued growth and development. The union is also considering changing its name to the All Trinidad General Workers' Trade Union, because of a loss of the country's sugar industry.^[1]

Basdeo Panday, the former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, was the president of the ATSGWTU from 1973 until his appointment as Prime Minister in 1995.^[2]

The ATSGWTU is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.

See also

• List of trade unions

References

1. ^ "Sugar Union to Change Name". Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday 12/10/2007. http://newsday.co.tt/business/0,69545.html. Retrieved December 13, 2007. 
2. ^ "Hon. Basdeo Panday, MP". Leader of the Opposition. http://www.ttparliament.org/html/leaderopp.htm. Retrieved December 13, 2007. 

• ICTUR et al.,, ed (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.