World Trade Union Confederation

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Postage stamp for the 1986 World Trade Union Congress in Berlin

The World Federation of Trade Unions (abbr. WFTU , English World Federation of Trade Unions , French Fédération syndicale mondiale ) is an international trade union federation. It was founded in 1945 through the amalgamation of numerous unions . The Soviet Profintern in particular was to be merged with the Amsterdam Trade Union International .

In 1949, the Cold War split the international trade union movement, once into the Western-Democratic International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the WGB, in which the unions of the socialist states and the unions of the non-socialist states that were affiliated with communist parties remained. The seat of the WGB was in Paris until the split in 1949 , then in Prague and since 1999 in Athens .

The WGB's negotiating languages ​​were French, English, Spanish, Russian and German. Today Russian and German are no longer negotiating languages.

Until the end of the communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe after the revolutions in 1989 , the World Trade Union Confederation was a communist front organization .

World trade union congresses

IV. World Trade Union Congress 1957 in the Leipzig Congress Hall
IV. World Trade Union Congress 1957 in the Leipzig Congress Hall

I. World Trade Union Congress

  • October 3 to 8, 1945 in Paris
  • Resolution statutes and program, election of the General Council, establishment of professional secretariats (later IVG)
  • President Sir Walter Citrine (Great Britain)
  • Secretary General Louis Saillant (France)

II. World Trade Union Congress

  • June 29 to July 9, 1949 in Milan
  • Decision to reorganize after the split
  • President Giuseppe Di Vittorio (Italy)
  • Secretary General Louis Saillant (France)

III. World Trade Union Congress

  • October 10-21, 1953 in Vienna
  • decision
  • President Giuseppe Di Vittorio (Italy)
  • Secretary General Louis Saillant (France)

IV. World Trade Union Congress

  • October 4th to 15th, 1957 in Leipzig
  • decision
  • President Giuseppe Di Vittorio (Italy)
  • Secretary General Louis Saillant (France)

V. World Trade Union Congress

  • December 4-15, 1961 in Moscow
  • decision
  • President Renato Bitossi (Italy)
  • Secretary General Louis Saillant (France)

VI. World Trade Union Congress

  • October 8-22, 1965 in Warsaw
  • decision
  • President Renato Bitossi (Italy)
  • Secretary General Louis Saillant (France)

VII World Trade Union Congress

VIII World Trade Union Congress

  • November 11-16, 1974 Warsaw
  • decision
  • President Enrique Pastorino (Uruguay)
  • Secretary General Pierre Gensous (France)

IX. World Trade Union Congress

  • April 16-22, 1978 in Prague
  • decision
  • President Sándor Gáspár (Hungary)
  • General Secretary Enrique Pastorino (Uruguay)

Xth World Trade Union Congress

  • February 10-15, 1982 in Havana
  • decision
  • President Sándor Gáspár (Hungary)
  • General Secretary Ibrahim Zakaria (Sudan)

XI. World Trade Union Congress in Berlin

  • September 16-22, 1986
  • decision
  • president
  • Secretary General

XII. World Trade Union Congress

  • November 13-19, 1990 in Moscow
  • decision
  • president
  • Secretary General Pierre Gauzou France

XIII. World Trade Union Congress

  • 1994 in Damascus
  • The decision was to realign it after the political changes of the last 5 years

XIV World Trade Union Congress

  • March 25-28, 2000 in New Delhi
  • President KLMahendra, General Secretary, AITUC, (India)
  • General Secretary Alexander Zharikov (Russia)

XV. World Trade Union Congress

  • In early December 2005 in Havana
  • President: Mohamad Shaban Assouz, GFTU (Syria)
  • Secretary General: Giorgos Mavrikos , PAME (Greece)

XVI. World Trade Union Congress

  • April 6-10, 2011 in Athens

Professional and trade unions

The skilled professional or unions are within the WBG in I nternational V of ereinigungen G ewerkschaft (French: UIS , Spanish: UIS , English: TUI , German: IVG ) have been summarized.

IVG for the workers in the construction, wood and building materials industries

IVG mining

Headquarters in Prague, from 1956 to 1990

IVG of working people in public services and related professions

  • Headquarters until 1992 in Berlin, after the reorganization New Delhi
  • Publication: quarterly bulletin

The IVG, which was founded in 1949 by the unions of post, telegraph and radio workers, has expanded its professional spectrum in the public service, in almost all branches, especially since the 1st International Professional Congress in Vienna in 1955. In the IVG, the unions are in The following industries are essentially united:

  • State workers and employees, as well as the judiciary
  • Community and community workers and employees
  • Post, telegraph and radio workers
  • Health care workers
  • Employees of the state banks, savings banks, banks and insurance companies

At the professional congresses, therefore, five industry commissions were elected, which began work during the congress and which continued in the time between the congresses. Therefore, the chairmen of the industry commissions were invited to the meetings of the board. In this way the work of the board was linked to the specific problems of the industries. This was particularly beneficial for exerting influence, cooperation and dialogue on tasks, professional rights and freedoms as well as influencing the ILO (ILO) and international standards.

1949 founding congress

The organization was first constituted, a first program for the post, telecommunications and radio unions was drawn up, and IVG's internal statutes were adopted. The Congress elected an Administrative Committee (Administrative Commission). A manifesto addressed the participants with an urgent appeal to all PTTR unions to “work together and solidarity in the struggle for peace, social progress and trade union freedoms”.

  • president
    • 1949–1955 Jaroslaw Kolar from the CSSR
  • Vice President
    • 1949–1955 René Duhamel from France
    • 1949–1955 AJ Yusupov from the USSR
  • Secretary General

I. International Professional Congress 1955

For the first time, trade unions from the various sectors of the public service and related professions from many countries around the world met. They constituted an IVG for the public service unions from the industrialized countries, the emerging socialist states and the Third World. A new statute was adopted for this purpose. The IBK expressed its will to undertake new and joint efforts to enforce trade union rights and democratic service law. An international action committee was set up for this purpose.

  • president
    • 1955–1968 René Duhamel from France
  • Secretary General
    • 1955–1958 Willi Baumgart

II. International Professional Congress 1959

The “Resolution on a Declaration on Rights and Guarantees of Public Service Workers” should be emphasized. The defense of peace, the struggle for disarmament and the ban on nuclear weapons became more and more part of the social and economic movement of demands.

  • president
    • 1955–1968 René Duhamel from France
  • Vice President
    • 1955–1968 Grigori Petelin from the USSR
  • Secretary General

III. International professional congress 1964

The IBK focused on increased work in the branch commissions in order to represent the specific problems and demands of officials, employees and workers more effectively. The IBK responded to current union struggles in Great Britain, Japan, Belgium, Angola, Cyprus and other countries with a broad wave of solidarity.

  • president
    • 1955–1968 René Duhamel from France
  • Vice President
    • 1955–1968 Grigori Petelin from the USSR
  • Secretary General

IV. International Professional Congress 1968

  • president
    • 1968–1982 Raymond Barberis from France
  • Secretary General

IV. International Professional Congress 1972

  • president
    • 1968–1982 Raymond Barberis from France
  • Secretary General

V. International Professional Congress 1977

  • president
    • 1968–1982 Raymond Barberis from France
  • Secretary General
    • 1977–1985 Hans Lorenz

VI. International professional congress 1982

  • president
    • 1982–1992 Alain Pouchol from France
  • Secretary General

VII. International Professional Congress 1987

  • president
    • 1982–1992 Alain Pouchol from France
  • Secretary General

IX. International professional congress 1992

Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the upheaval in the Eastern European countries, international work partially came to a standstill and still had to be put in order. The focus of the work shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa and Latin America. The full-time work had to be organized through voluntary work by union employees in the individual country unions.

  • Seat
    • 1992–1996 Paris
  • president

X. International Professional Congress 1998 Due to the financial framework, the structures have been redefined. Several IVGs have joined forces. The presence in Europe has become very weak. The IVGen Health, Education and Workers and Public Service Employees merged.

Headquarters from 1996 Calcutta (India)

  • president
    • 1998 to ... Lulamile Sotaka (South Africa)
  • Secretary General
    • 1998 to .... Sukomal Sen (India)

IVG Transport

  • Headquarters Budapest
  • president
  • General Secretary Ganguli (India)

IVG metal

  • Headquarters in Prague until 1990, from 1998 after the reorganization of Mexico City
  • President until 1990 Reinhard Sommer (Germany)
  • Secretary General until 1990 Piere Gensson (France)

IVG food and grocery workers

  • Sofia headquarters

FISE teachers and educators

Only pre-war organization to join the WGB.

  • Based in Paris, Prague and since 1985 Berlin
  • President up? Paul Ruhig (Germany)
  • Secretary General ...... (France)

IVG chemistry

Headquarters Budapest from 1956 to 1990 from 1998 after the reorganization of Mexico City in the merger with IVG Metall

IVG agricultural and forest workers

  • Headquarters in Prague from 1960 to 1990
  • president
  • Secretary General Bonari (Italy)

Standing Committee for Printing and Paper Workers Unions

Web links

literature

  • Daniel Blackburn, Ciaran Cross, Trade unions of the world, International Center for Trade Union Rights 2016, p. 667 f

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Blackburn, Ciaran Cross (see literature), p. 667
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Rudzio: The erosion of demarcation. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-83787-5 , p. 29 ( limited preview in Google book search).