General Federation of Belgian Labour

ABVV/FGTB

Full name	General Federation of Belgian Labour
Native name	Algemeen Belgisch Vakverbond Fédération Générale du Travail de Belgique
Founded	1945
Members	1.2 million
Affiliation	ITUC, ETUC, TUAC
Key people	Rudy De Leeuw, president Anne Demelenne, secretary general
Office location	Brussels, Belgium
Country	Belgium
Website	www.abvv.be

The General Federation of Belgian Labour (ABVV/FGTB) is a socialist national trade union federation in Belgium. It was founded in 1945. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation and has a membership of almost 1.2 million.

Walloon movement

Through the foundation of the Mouvement populaire wallon during the Great Strike that took place in the Winter 1960-1961, the Walloon working class now also demanded federalism as well as structural reforms. The leader of the Strike, André Renard was also a national leader of the General Federation of Belgian Labour.^[1] This whole process will be named Renardism.

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  Protest against economic austerity in Brussels (29 September 2010)

See also

• Interrégionale wallonne de la FGTB

References

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

External links

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• Official website (Dutch)

Notes

1. ↑ Chantal Kesteloot, Growth of the Walloon Movement, in Nationalism in Belgium, MacMillan, London, 1998, pp. 139-152, p. 150.