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trade unionA trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
s and union federations by country.
Global
- Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict...
- International Transport Workers' Federation
The International Transport Workers' Federation is a global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2009 the ITF had 654 member organizations in 148 countries, representing a combined membership of 4.5 million workers....
- International Trade Union Confederation
The International Trade Union Confederation is the world's largest trade union federation. It was formed on November 1, 2006 out of the merger of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labour...
- International Workers Association
The International Workers' Association is an international federation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions and initiatives based primarily in Europe and Latin America....
- World Federation of Trade Unions
The World Federation of Trade Unions was established in 1945 to replace the International Federation of Trade Unions. Its mission was to bring together trade unions across the world in a single international organization, much like the United Nations...
Sectoral global union federations
- Building and Wood Workers' International
The Building and Wood Workers' International is the global union federation of democratic and free trade unions in the building, building materials, wood, forestry and allied industries. Established in 2005 by a merger of the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers and the World...
- Education International
Education International is a global union federation of teachers' trade unions. Currently, it has 401 member organizations in 172 countries and territories, representing over 30 million education personnel from pre-school to university...
- FIFPro
The Fédération Internationale des Associations de Footballeurs Professionnels , usually known by the abbreviation FIFPro, is a worldwide representative organization for professional football players. At the moment there are 43 national players associations who are members of FIFPro...
- International Affiliation of Writers Guilds
The International Affiliation of Writers Guilds is an international trade union federation representing guilds of professional screenwriters and playwrights. Some affiliates also belong to national trade union federations....
- International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions
International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions is a global union federation of trade unions. As of November 2007, ICEM represented 467 industrial trade unions in 132 countries, claiming a membership of over 20 million workers.The organization represents workers...
- International Federation of Journalists
International Federation of Journalists, IFJ, is a global union federation of journalists' trade unions—the largest in the world. The organization aims to protect and strengthen the rights and freedoms of journalists...
- International Metalworkers' Federation
International Metalworkers' Federation is a global union federation of metalworkers' trade unions, founded in Zürich, Switzerland in August 1893...
- International Transport Workers' Federation
The International Transport Workers' Federation is a global union federation of transport workers' trade unions, founded in 1896. In 2009 the ITF had 654 member organizations in 148 countries, representing a combined membership of 4.5 million workers....
- International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation
The International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation is a global union federation. , it has 217 member organizations in 110 countries, representing a combined membership of over 10 million workers....
- International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association
- Public Services International
Public Services International is a global union federation of public sector trade unions. It 620 affiliated unions, in 160 countries, representing 20 million workers...
- Union Network International
UNI Global Union is a global union federation for skills and services, gathering national and regional trade unions. It was launched on January 1, 2000. Its more than 900 affiliated unions in 140 countries have 20 million members...
Albania
- Confederation of Trade Unions (Albania)
The Confederation of Trade Unions is a National federation of Trade unions in Albania.It was led by Kastriot Muco until November 2004 and has an estimated membership of 100,000. Actual president Kol Nikolli took over the lead of the institution after a narrow victory in the CTUA Congress elections...
- United Independent Albanian Trade Unions
The Union of the Independent Trade Unions of Albania , is a National Confederation of Trade unions in Albania. It was established in 1991 and held its first national conference in February, 1992...
Angola
- General Centre of Independent and Free Unions of Angola
The General Centre of Independent and Free Unions of Angola is a national trade union centre of Angola. With a membership of 50,000, it is led by Manuel Maria Difuila as Presidente.-External links:* entry in ITUC address book....
- Independent Union of Maritime and Related Workers
The Independent Union of Maritime and Related Workers is a small, independent Trade union centre of Angola.-External links:* - SIMA at the ITF...
- National Union of Angolan Workers
The National Union of Angolan Workers is a national Trade union centre of Angola.The UNTA was organized first in the Belgian Congo, in the 1950s, and moved to Angola after independence in 1975. It is led by Manuel Viage as general secretary....
Antigua and Barbuda
- Antigua Trades and Labour Union
The Antigua Trades and Labour Union is a national Trade union of Antigua and Barbuda. It was formed in 1939 and is closely related to the Antigua Labour Party.It has a membership of 7,000 and is led by Wigley George as president....
- Antigua Workers' Union
The Antigua Workers' Union or is a national Trade union centre of Antigua and Barbuda. It was formed in 1967 after a split from the ATLU. The AWU created the Progressive Labour Movement in 1970....
- Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association
The Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association is a national Trade union of Antigua and Barbuda. First recognized in the 1980s, the ABPSA is a small organization with competition from other unions in the public service sector.-External links:...
- Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association
The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association is a trade union in the Leeward Islands and is registered in both Antigua and Barbados.Currently, all of LIALPA's members fly for LIAT Limited, a regional airline based in Antigua, West Indies, recently privatised from the Caribbean...
Argentina
- Argentine Workers' Center
The Argentine Workers' Central Union is a trade-union federation in Argentina. Its general secretary is Hugo Yasky. It was formed in 1991 when a number of trade unions disaffiliated from the General Confederation of Labor . Though the CTA is a multi-tendency organization, it is led by unionists...
- Consejo Coordinador Argentino Sindical
The Consejo Coordinador Argentino Sindical is a National trade union center of Argentina. It is led by Victor R. Huerta.The CCAS is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Federación Agraria Argentina
The Argentine Agrarian Federation is a private institution that serves as a business organization for small and medium agricultural producers in Argentina. It was founded on 15 August 1912 after the first employers' strike of agrarian farmers demanding protection from the exploitation of big...
- General Confederation of Labour (Argentina)
The General Confederation of Labour of the Argentine Republic is a national trade union centre of Argentina founded on September 27, 1930, as the result of the merge of the USA and the COA trade union centres...
Azerbaijan
- Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation
The Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation is a National trade union center of Azerbaijan. It has a membership of 1,338,000 and is led by Sattar S. Mehbaliyev as chairman.-External links:* entry in ITUC address book....
- Committee for Oil Industry Workers' Rights
The Committee for Oil Industry Workers' Rights is a National trade union center of Azerbaijan. It was established in 1996....
- Journalists Trade Union of Azerbaijan
Journalists Trade Union of Azerbaijan - is a trade union of journalists in Azerbaijan. The trade union organization was established in 1997 by a group of professional journalists in Azerbaijan....
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
- Barbados Workers' Union
The Barbados Workers' Union is a trade union in Barbados. It was established in October, 1941. It has 25,000 members and represents them directly, negotiating with individual companies in each sector....
- Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados
The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados is a national trade union centre. Affiliated unions include: the National Union of Public Workers, Barbados Workers' Union, Barbados Secondary Teachers Union, Barbados Union of Teachers, Barbados Association of Principals of Public...
- Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association
The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association is a trade union in the Leeward Islands and is registered in both Antigua and Barbados.Currently, all of LIALPA's members fly for LIAT Limited, a regional airline based in Antigua, West Indies, recently privatised from the Caribbean...
- National Union of Public Workers
The National Union of Public Workers is a trade union in Barbados. It represents 10,000 workers, mainly in the public sector. It was established in 1944, and registered as a trade union in 1964. In 1971 it changed its name from the Barbados Civil Service Association ....
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
- National Trade Union Congress of Belize
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize is a central trade union federation representing the majority of workers in Belize. The NTUCB is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation. It is an umbrella organization for seven unions in Belize...
- Christian Workers' Union
The Christian Workers' Union is a trade union in Belize. It was founded in 1963. As of 2006, CWU claimed a membership of 2,500. It was a member of the International Trade Union Confederation, but withdrew in November 2009....
- United General Workers Union
United General Workers Union, a central trade union organization in Belize. Founded in 1979 through the merger of Belize General Development Workers' Union and the Southern Christian Union. During the 1980s UGWU was seen as the most leftist trade union organization in the country....
- General Workers' Union (Belize)
British Honduras Workers and Tradesmen's Union, the first central trade union organization in Belize. Founded in 1939 by Antonio Soberanis Gómez. Registered as a legal trade union in 1943. Shortly thereafter it changed its name to General Workers Union....
Benin
Bolivia
- Bolivian Workers' Center
The Bolivian Workers' Center is the chief trade union federation in Bolivia. It was founded in 1952 following the national revolution that brought the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement to power. The most important affiliate of the COB was the Union Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers...
- Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia
The Single Union Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia is a union of peasants in Bolivia.The CSUTCB was formed in 1979 in opposition to government-sponsored peasant unions. Under the leadership of the Tupac Katari Revolutionary Movement, the CSUTCB became an independent organization...
- Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia
The Union Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers is a labor union in Bolivia that represents miners. Bolivia's miners are commonly regarded as the country's most class-conscious workers. The FSTMB has played an important role in Bolivia's recent history....
- Corriente de Renovación Independiente y Solidaridad Laboral
The Corriente de Renovación Independiente y Solidaridad Laboral is a trade union in Bolivia. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
- Central Autônoma de Trabalhadores
The Central Autónoma de Trabalhadores is a trade union federation in Brazil. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.-External links:* website....
- Central Única dos Trabalhadores
-See also:*Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores*Força Sindical-External links:...
- Confederação Brasileira de Trabalhadores Cristâos
The Confederação Brasileira de Trabalhadores Cristâos is a trade union centre in Brazil. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.-References:...
- Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores
The Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores is the second-largest federation of labor unions in Brazil. Founded in 1986, the CGT is close to the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement .-External links:*...
- Coordenação Nacional de Lutas
Coordenação Nacional de Lutas , Conlutas, is a Brazilian left-wing trade union confederation. Formed in 2004, through efforts led partly by the United Socialist Workers' Party, it consists of 17 unions ; most of them are civil service workers' unions.-External links:* website....
- Força Sindical
The Força Sindical is a trade union centre in Brazil. It was formed in 1991 by Luis Antônio Medeiros, a leader from the Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores.The FS is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.-External links:...
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Canada
Labour Union Of Canada
- Canadian Labour Congress
The Canadian Labour Congress, or CLC is a national trade union centre, the central labour body in English Canada to which most Canadian labour unions are affiliated.- Formation :...
- NationalAffiliates
- ACTRA
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists is a Canadian labour union representing performers in English-language media. It has 22,000 members working in film, television, radio, and all other recorded media....
- British Columbia Teachers' Federation
The British Columbia Teachers' Federation is the labour union that represents all public school teachers in the province of British Columbia, Canada.-Governance Structure:...
- Canadian Association of University Teachers
The Canadian Association of University Teachers is a federation of independent associations and trade unions representing approximately 65,000 teachers, librarians, researchers and other academic professionals and general staff at 120 universities and colleges across Canada.-Principal Aims:The...
- Canadian Auto Workers
The Canadian Auto Workers is one of Canada's largest and highest profile social unions. While rooted in Ontario's large auto plants of Windsor, Brampton, Oakville, St...
- Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union
The Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union is a Canadian labour union representing approximately 35,000 white-collar workers, in both the private and public sectors, in 44 locals across Canada....
- Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association
The Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association or CPAA represents rural postal workers for the Canada Post Corporation. The trade union belongs to the Canadian Labour Congress as the federation's smallest National Union....
- Canadian Union of Postal Workers
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers or CUPW is a public sector trade union representing postal workers employed at Canada Post as well as private sector workers outside Canada Post.-Activities:...
- Canadian Union of Public Employees
The Canadian Union of Public Employees is a Canadian trade union serving the public sector - although it has in recent years organized workplaces in the non-profit and para-public sector as well...
- Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
See also Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol SCEPCommunications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, abbreviated CEP in English and SCEP in French, is a largely private sector labour union with 150,000 members...
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario is a labour union representing all public elementary school teachers in the Canadian province of Ontario. The union has 66 local chapters in the province, and over 76,000 members...
- National Union of Public and General Employees
The National Union of Public and General Employees is a Canadian trade union. Taken in total it is the second largest union in Canada. Most of its 340,000 members work in the provincial public service sector...
- Canadian Federation of Nurses' Union
The Canadian Federation of Nurses Union is a trade union centre in Canada. It represents the interests of Canadian nurses within the Canadian Labour Congress.The CFNU is a member of the International Council of Nurses.-External links:*...
- Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association
The Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association is an organization that represents teachers in publicly funded Roman Catholic schools in Ontario, Canada. It is an affiliated with the Ontario Teachers’ Federation, the Canadian Teachers’ Federation and Education International...
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation
The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation is a trade union which represents 60,000 members across Ontario, Canada.Founded in 1919, its membership includes public high school teachers, occasional teachers, teaching assistants, psychoeducational consultants, social workers, child and youth...
- Public Service Alliance of Canada
The Public Service Alliance of Canada is one of Canada’s largest national labour unions, with members in every province and territory. In fact, it is the biggest union in the Canadian Federal Public Sector...
- Telecommunications Workers Union
The Telecommunications Workers Union is a trade union in Canada for people working for telephone and cable companies. Although the TWU has members from Shaw Cable in the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada, the majority of TWU members are employees of Telus .- Early organization at BC Tel:...
- International Affiliates
- Air Line Pilots Association, International
The Air Line Pilots Association, International , is the collective bargaining representative for over 59,000 pilots of 39 U.S. and Canadian airlines. ALPA was formed in 1931 and is a member of the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress...
- Amalgamated Transit Union
The Amalgamated Transit Union is a labor union in the United States and The Amalgamated Transit Union Canadian Council in Canada, representing workers in the transit system and other industries...
- American Federation of Musicians
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada is a labor union of professional musicians in the United States and Canada...
- Amalgamated Transit Union
The Amalgamated Transit Union is a labor union in the United States and The Amalgamated Transit Union Canadian Council in Canada, representing workers in the transit system and other industries...
- Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union is a labor union in the United States and Canada. It has a membership of 100,000...
- CWA-Canadian Media Guild
The Canadian Media Guild is a trade union representing employees at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , the Canadian Press, Thomson Reuters, Agence France-Presse, S-Vox, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, CW Television, CJRC Radio in Gatineau, Que., and TVOntario.It is a local of The...
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or I.A.T.S.E., is a labor union representing technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion...
- International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers
The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers is a union in the United States and Canada, which represents primarily construction workers, as well as shipbuilding and metal fabrication employees.-Origins:...
- International Association of Fire Fighters
The International Association of Fire Fighters is a labor union representing professional firefighters in the United States and Canada. The IAFF was formed in 1918 and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO in the United States and the Canadian Labour Congress in Canada. The IAFF is headquartered in...
- International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
The International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers is a trade union in the United States and Canada...
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx. 646,933 workers as of 2006 in more than 200 industries.-Formation and early history:...
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is a labor union which represents workers in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama and several Caribbean island nations; particularly electricians, or Inside Wiremen, in the construction industry and linemen and other...
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers is a trade union in the United States and Canada. It is for boilermakers and related occupations, and is affiliated with both the AFL-CIO and CLC....
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers , AFL-CIO & CLC, is a diverse labor union representing more than 80,000 women and men in professional, technical, administrative and associated occupations in the United States and Canada. Their members are employed by federal,...
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii and Alaska, and in British Columbia, Canada. It also represents hotel workers in Hawaii, cannery workers in Alaska, warehouse workers throughout...
- International Longshoremen's Association
The International Longshoremen's Association is a labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways...
- International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers is a labor union in the United States and Canada which represents bricklayers, pointers/cleaners/caulkers, stone and marble masons, cement masons, plasterers, tilesetters, terrazzo and mosaic workers...
- International Union of Operating Engineers
The International Union of Operating Engineers is a trade union within the AFL-CIO representing primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers who maintain heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes, in the...
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades is a union representing about 140,000 painters, glaziers, wall coverers, flooring installers, convention and trade show decorators, glassworkers, sign and display workers, and drywall finishers in the United States and Canada...
- Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association
The Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada is a trade union of plasterers and cement masons in the construction industry in the United States and Canada. Members of the union finish interior walls and ceilings of buildings and apply...
- Seafarers' International Union of Canada
The Seafarers International Union of Canada is a Canadian labour union of mariners working aboard Canadian flag vessels. SIU Canada is an affiliate union of Seafarers International Union.-External links:*...
- Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union is a labor union representing about 1.8 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States , and Canada...
- Sheet Metal Workers International Association
- Teamsters
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of several local and regional locals of teamsters, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors....
- United Auto Workers
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial...
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is one of the largest building trades union in the United States. One of the unions that formed the American Federation of Labor in 1886, it left the AFL-CIO in 2001.-Early years:...
- United Food and Commercial Workers Union
- United Mine Workers of America
- United Steelworkers
The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union is the largest industrial labor union in North America, with 705,000 members. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, U.S., the United Steelworkers represents workers in the United...
- United Transportation Union
The United Transportation Union is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a broad-based, transportation labor union representing about 125,000 active and retired railroad, bus, mass transit, and airline workers in the United States....
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry
The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the United Association is a trade union of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing, pipefitting, and sprinkler fitting industry of...
- UNITE HERE
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with more than 265,000 active members The union's members work predominantly in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries...
- Independent Unions/Other Affiliations
- Canadian Actors' Equity Association
Canadian Actors' Equity Association is an association of performers in English Canada who are engaged in live performances before paying audiences in theatre, opera and dance...
- Christian Labour Association of Canada
The Christian Labour Association of Canada is a labour union which represents workers in the construction, health care and food industries. The association was established in 1952 to represent workers on the basis of "Christian social principles"...
- Major League Baseball Players Association
The Major League Baseball Players Association is the union of professional major-league baseball players.-History of MLBPA:The MLBPA was not the first attempt to unionize baseball players...
- Manitoba Teachers' Society
The Manitoba Teachers' Society is the provincial trade union body for the teachers of Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 1919, and currently has around 15,000 members...
- National Hockey League Players' Association
- Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada
- Writers Guild of Canada
The Writers Guild of Canada represents more than 1,800 professional writers working in film, television, radio, and multimedia production in Canada...
Caribbean
- Caribbean Congress of Labour
The Caribbean Congress of Labour is a regional trade union federation. It represents 500,000 members in 33 affiliated unions across 17 Caribbean nations....
- Caribbean Public Services Association
The Caribbean Public Services Association is a trade union Federation in the Caribbean which links public sector unions in the region.-See also:* List of trade unions...
- Caribbean Union of Teachers
The Caribbean Union of Teachers is a federation of teaching trade unions in the Caribbean. Its affiliated unions are:* Anguilla Teachers Union* Antigua & Barbuda Union of Teachers* Bahamas Union of Teachers* Barbados Secondary Teachers Union...
Central African Republic
People's Republic of China
- All-China Federation of Trade Unions
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions , is the sole national trade union federation of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 134 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations...
- All-China Federation of Railway Workers' Unions
The All-China Federation of Railway Workers’ Unions is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
- National Committee of the Chinese Agricultural, Forestry and Water Conservancy Workers' Union
The National Committee of the Chinese Agricultural, Forestry and Water Conservancy Workers’ Union is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
- National Committee of the Chinese Aviation Workers' Union
The National Committee of the Chinese Aviation Workers’ Union is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
- National Committee of the Chinese Banking Workers' Union
The National Committee of the Chinese Banking Workers’ Union is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
- National Committee of the Chinese Defense Industry, Postal and Telecommunications Workers' Union
The National Committee of the Chinese Defense Industry, Postal and Telecommunications Workers’ Union is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
- National Committee of the Chinese Educational, Scientific, Cultural, Medical and Sports Workers' Union
- National Committee of the Chinese Energy and Chemical Workers' Union
The National Committee of the Chinese Energy and Chemical Workers’ Union is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
- National Committee of the Chinese Financial, Commercial, Light Industry, Textile and Tobacco Workers' Union
- National Committee of the Chinese Machinery, Metallurgical and Building Material Workers' Union
The National Committee of the Chinese Machinery, Metallurgical and Building Material Workers’ Union is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
- National Committee of the Chinese Seamen and Construction Workers' Union
The National Committee of the Chinese Seamen and Construction Workers’ Union is a national industrial union of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions in the People's Republic of China.-External links:*...
Colombia
- Central Union of Workers
The Central Union of Workers is a trade union centre in Colombia. It was formed in 1986, and in 2002 was the country's largest union federation, with 546,000 members.ICTUR reports that nearly 800 members of CUT were murdered between 1987 and 1992....
- Confederation of Workers of Colombia
The Confederation of Workers of Colombia is a trade union centre in Colombia. It was formed in 1936, and is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation....
- General Confederation of Democratic Workers
The General Confederation of Democratic Workers is a trade union centre in Colombia. It was founded in 1988.The CGTD is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- SINALTRAINAL
The National Union of Food Industry Workers is a Colombian food industry trade union.The group has repeatedly tried to form unions in Colombia for workers of Panamco, a Colombian Coca-Cola bottling company, and have documentation of many members or leaders being murdered, kidnapped, and tortured...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
Costa Rica
- Central de Trabajadores de Costa Rica
The Central de Trabajadores de Costa Rica is a trade union centre in Costa Rica.It is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions....
- Central del Movimiento de Trabajadores Costarricenses
The Central del Movimiento de Trabajadores is a trade union centre in Costa Rica.Originally created as the Federation of Christian Workers and Peasants of Costa Rica in 1964, it became the Central de Trabajadores Costarricenses in 1972, and the CMTC in the 1990s.It is affiliated with the...
- Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores (Costa Rica)
The Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores is a national trade union centre in Costa Rica formed in 1980 as a result of the merger of the Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Públicos and the Confederación General de Trabajadores. The CUT had 54 affiliated unions in 2004. It is affiliated to the...
- Confederación du Trabajadores de Costa Rica
The Confederación de Trabajadores de Costa Rica is a trade union centre in Costa Rica.It is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.-References:...
- Costa Rican Confederation of Workers
The Costa Rican Confederation of Workers is a trade union centre in Costa Rica. It was formed in 1991 by the merger of three union centres.The CTRN is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.-External links:*...
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Côte d'Ivoire
Denmark
- Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC)
The AC – The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations was founded in 1972 and is an umbrella organisation for 9 Danish trade unions.The AC has a membership of 197,900 and cooperates with the two other Danish trade union centers, i.e...
- Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors
The The Danish Association of Chartered Surveyors is a trade union in Denmark. It has a membership of 1400....
- Danish Medical Association
The Danish Medical Association is a trade union in Denmark. It has a membership of 21,800, and is affiliated with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations....
- Danish Union of Architects
The Danish Union of Architects is a trade union in Denmark. It has a membership of 4500, and is affiliated with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations....
- Danish Union of Librarians
The Danish Union of Librarians is a trade union in Denmark. It has a membership of 5500, and is affiliated with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations....
- FTF – Confederation of Professionals in Denmark
FTF – Confederation of Professionals in Denmark was founded in 1952 and is an umbrella organisation for 86 Danish trade unions....
- Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO)
LO, The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions was founded in 1898 and is an umbrella organisation for 18 Danish trade unions....
Dominica
- Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union
The Dominica Amalgamated Workers' Union is a trade union in Dominica. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Dominica Public Service Union
The Dominica Public Service Union is a trade union in Dominica. It was originally founded in 1938 as the Dominica Civil Service Association....
- National Workers' Union (Dominica)
The National Workers' Union is a trade union in Dominica. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Waterfront and Allied Workers' Union
The Waterfront and Allied Workers' Union is a trade union in Dominica. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
Dominican Republic
- Central General de Trabajadores (Dominican Republic)
The Central General de Trabajadores is a trade union centre in the Dominican Republic. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Confederación de Trabajadores Unitaria
The Confederación de Trabajadores Unitaria is a trade union centre in the Dominican Republic. It was formed by the merging of four previous unions. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
Ecuador
- Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Clasistas Unitarias de Trabajadores
The Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Clasistas Unitarias de Trabajadores is a trade union centre in Ecuador. It has a membership of over 86,000. As of 2006, CEDOCUT organized 92 trade unions, 1.71% of the total number of unions in the country...
- Confederación de Trabajadores del Ecuador
The Confederación de Trabajadores del Ecuador is a trade union centre in Ecuador. CTE was founded on July 9, 1944, on the initiative of the Communist Party of Ecuador and the Socialist Party of Ecuador. The organization was awarded legal recognition on March 3, 1945...
- Ecuador Confederation of Free Trade Union Organizations
The Ecuador Confederation of Free Trade Union Organizations is a trade union centre in Ecuador. CEOSL was founded on May 1, 1962, inspired by North American trade unions. It later distanced itself from its North American sponsors during the 1980s and 1990s, though...
- Frente Unitario de los Trabajadores
The Frente Unitario de Trabajadores is a central organizing body for the main trade union centres in Ecuador.In 1980 FUT was formed by the unification of Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Clasistas Unitarias de Trabajadores , Ecuador Confederation of Free Trade Union Organizations , and...
El Salvador
- Central Autónoma de Trabajadores Salvadoreños
Central Autónoma de Trabajadores Salvadoreños is a trade union center in El Salvador. It was founded in 1966 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.-References:...
- Central de Trabajadores Democráticos
Central de Trabajadores Democráticos is a trade union centre in El Salvador. It was founded in the 1980s, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Federación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores Salvadoreños
The Federación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores Salvadoreños is a trade union centre in El Salvador. It was founded in November 1972 to bring unity to the country's labor movement, but did not achieve formal legal recognition until 1974...
Estonia
Fiji
- Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions
The Fiji Islands Council of Trade Unions was established in August, 2002 as a breakaway from and rival to the FTUC.Fifteen unions, which were formerly affiliated to the FTUC, initially joined the new umbrella organisation. The move follows the unions’ disatissfaction with the FTUC led by Senator...
- Fiji Trades Union Congress
The Fiji Trades Union Congress is a trade union organization in Fiji, originally founded in 1952 under the leadership of Pandit Ami Chandra as the Fiji Industrial Workers Congress . As the FIWC the organisation was the third federation in Oceania, after the ACTU and the NZCTU, to join the ICFTU. ...
- Federation of Cane Growers (Fiji)
The Federation of Cane Growers was formed as an umbrella organisation to negotiate the new cane contract due to take effect from 1960 with the Colonial Sugar Refining Company.- Negotiations for 1960 cane contract :...
- Indian Cane Growers Association (Fiji)
The Indian Cane Growers Association was formed on 28 September 1919 and was based in Ba Province, one of the cane growing districts in the Western Division of Fiji. It was led by Theodore Riaz and included some well-to-do Indian cane farmers from Ba, like Ramgarib Singh and Randhir Singh...
- Kisan Sangh
Kisan Sangh was the first farmers' union formed in Fiji on 27 November 1937. This was the result of one man's determination to improve the plight of Fiji's Indian cane farmers...
- Labasa Kisan Sangh
The Kisan Sangh had been active in the Western Division of Fiji since 1937 but had not seen the need to expand its activities to other sugar cane growing districts because of transportation problems and the fact that the other districts combined had far fewer cane farmers thatn the Western Division...
- Maha Sangh
Akhil Fiji Krishak Maha Sangh was a sugar cane farmers' union formed on 15 June 1941 in opposition to the existing union, the Kisan Sangh. Supporters of Kisan Sangh tried to stop the formation of the Maha Sangh but were unsuccessful. The people responsible for the formation of a second sugar cane...
- National Farmers Union (Fiji)
The National Farmers Union is one of Fiji's largest trade unions. It was launched in Labasa in July 1978 under the auspices of the Fiji Trades Union Congress, with Mahendra Chaudhry as its first General Secretary...
- Rewa Planters Union
Rewa Planters Union was formed on 14 July 1943 at a meeting attended by 1500 cane farmers from Rewa Province, Fiji. The union was formed in reaction to the strike of cane farmers taking place in the Western Division. The Government had appointed a commission to inquire into the farmers' grievances...
- Vishal Sangh
Vishal Sangh was a cane farmers union established in Fiji on 1 September 1946, by mainly Sikh farmers, who refused to re-join the Kisan Sangh after its reunification following the split of the Kisan Sangh into two factions in 1943...
Finland
The three major confederations:
Individual trade unions
- Union of Salaried Employees
The Union of Salaried Employees is a trade union in Finland. With 125,000 members TU is the major trade union for workers in industry and industrial services, technics, economy and information. It is affiliated with the Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees.-External links:**...
- Union of Health and Social Care Services
- Finnish Union of Practical Nurses
The Finnish Union of Practical Nurses is a trade union in Finland. It has a membership of over 63,000 and is affiliated with the Finnish Confederation of Salaried Employees.-External links:*...
- Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers
Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK is a Finnish trade union of university-educated engineers, architects and scientists. In addition, the TEK is a learned society and the professional body of the engineering profession, and a member of the Finnish Federation of Learned Societies...
- Finnish Association of Architects
- Association of Employees in Government Educational Administration
Association of Employees in Government Educational Administration is the smallest of the member trade unions of Confederation of Unions for Academic Professionals in Finland with 141 members. The union consists of members of the civil servants working in the educational sector of the provincial...
Major confederations
Other important unions
- Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques
The Solidaires or Solidaires Unitaires Démocratiques is a French group of trade unions.-Political position:They tend to favor progressive or even radical views and work with the alter-globalization or anti-globalization movement....
- Fédération Syndicale Unitaire
The Fédération syndicale unitaire is the main trade union in the education sector in France and the largest trade union in the public sector. It has 162,000 members, of whom 88% are teachers....
- Union Nationale des Syndicats Autonomes
The National Union of Autonomous Unions is one of the French confederations of trade unions, but they do not have the présomption irréfragable de représentativité of the General Confederation of Labour , French Democratic Confederation of Labour , Workers' Force , French Confederation of Christian...
Other unions
- Confédération Nationale du Travail
- History :The CNT-F or National Confederation of Labour is a French anarcho-syndicalist union.It was founded in 1946 by Spanish anarcho-syndicalists in exile, and former members of Confédération Générale du Travail-Syndicaliste Révolutionnaire , its name is derived from the Spanish CNT, the...
- Action Police CFTC
Action Police CFTC is a very small police union in France, affiliated with the Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens Christian trade union confederation. Its general secretary is Michel Thooris....
- Sud-PTT
Sud-PTT is a French trade union created in fall 1988 after the exclusion of more radical elements from the CFDT-PTT. CFDT is a union generally considered as the most open for negotiation and reforms. It is sometimes criticized for this approach, sometimes by its own members...
- Syndicat de la Magistrature
The Syndicat de la Magistrature is the French second largest magistrates trade union - in terms of membership - after the more conservative Union syndicale des magistrats....
Germany
- Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB) German Confederation of Trade Unions
The Confederation of German Trade Unions is an umbrella organisation for eight German trade unions, in total representing more than 7 million people . It was founded in Munich, 12 October 1949.The DGB coordinates joint demands and activities within the German trade union movement...
- IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt
The IG Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt is a trade union in Germany with a membership of 350000 . It is one of 8 industrial affiliates of the DGB...
- IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie
-External links:*...
- Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft
- IG Metall
IG Metall is the dominant metalworkers' union in Germany. Analysts of German labor relations consider it a major trend-setter in national bargaining. As a metalworkers' union, it represents workers in the motor vehicle industry...
- Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten
- Trade Union of the Police
The Gewerkschaft der Polizei is a trade union in Germany. It represents 181,000 police employees, and is one of eight industrial affiliations of the German Confederation of Trade Unions...
- TRANSNET Gewerkschaft
TRANSNET, which stands for Transport, Service, and Networks, was a trade union in Germany and one of eight industrial affiliations of the German Confederation of Trade Unions.Since autumn 2005 TRANSNET worked together with the "rival" union GDBA....
- ver.di
-External links:* * on the ver.di homepage...
- Deutscher Beamtenbund (dbb) German Civil Service Federation
- komba gewerkschaft
The komba gewerkschaft is a German trade union in Berlin. It organises over 80.000 local administration workers....
- Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer
The Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer is a German trade union present in train companies. It has a membership of 34,000 , concentrated in the former East Germany.-2007 strike:...
- Christlicher Gewerkschaftsbund (CGB) *German Christian Workers' Federation
- Free Workers' Union of Germany
The Free Workers' Union of Germany was an anarcho-syndicalist trade union, which existed from the renaming of the Free Association of German Trade Unions on September 15, 1919 to its official disbandment in January 1933 after the Nazis came into power, although many of its members continued to be...
- Free Workers' Union
The Free Workers' Union is a small anarcho-syndicalist union in Germany. It is the German section of the International Workers Association , to which the larger and better known Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Spain also belongs...
- Deutsche Angestellten Gewerkschaft (DAG) German Salaried Employees' Union
The German Salaried Employees' Union, in German Deutsche Angestellten-Gewerkschaft was an independent trade union based in Hamburg...
Historical Unions
- Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union
The Gibraltar Apprentices and Ex-Apprentices Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1963.-See also:* List of trade unions* Transport and General Workers' Union* TGWU amalgamations...
- Gibraltar Confederation of Labour
The Gibraltar Confederation of Labour was a trade union established in the British colony of Gibraltar in 1947, and promoted by the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights . Its first president was Albert Risso, at the time president of the AACR. During 1948, Albert Fava was its general...
- Gibraltar Labour Trades Union
The Gibraltar Labour Trades Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1963.-See also:* List of trade unions* Transport and General Workers' Union* TGWU amalgamations...
Guatemala
- Central General de Trabajadores de Guatemala
The Central General de Trabajadores de Guatemala is a national trade union center in Guatemala. It is descended from the Central Nacional de Trabajadores, which operated clandestinely after the disappearance of 21 of its leaders arrested on June 21, 1980.The CGTG is affiliated with the...
- Confederación de Unidad Sindical de Guatemala
The Confederación de Unidad Sindical de Guatemala is a national trade union center in Guatemala. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.-References:...
- Unión Sindical de Trabajadores de Guatemala
The Unión Sindical de Trabajadores de Guatemala is a national trade union center in Guatemala.-References:...
Guinea
Guyana
- Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union is the largest trade union in Guyana. It was founded in 1946 as the Guiana Industrial Workers' Union...
- Guyana Airline Pilots Association
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- Guyana Labour Union
The Guyana Labour Union is a trade union centre in Guyana, previously known as the British Guiana Labour Union. BGLU emerged as a labour union amongst black dockworkers. It was led by Hubert Critchlow, a popular cricket player. BGLU soon expanded into a colony-wide labour movement...
- National Workers' Union (Guyana)
The National Workers' Union is a trade union in Guyana. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Guyana Teachers' Union
- Guyana Public Service Union
- Clerical and Commercial Workers Union
Haiti
- Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens
The Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens was founded in 1998 to provide a space for Haitian workers to organize collectively and promote a progressive agenda, such as opposing the privatization plans of international financial institutions...
- Coordination Syndicale Haïtienne (CSH)
- Haitian Trade Union Coordination
The Haitian Trade Union Coordination is a trade union structure in Haiti. It collects together 14 established unions.See Coordination Syndicale Haïtienne . This was the primary labor organization that backed the overthrow of Haiti's democratically elected government...
- May 1st - Workers' Fight Federation
Batay Ouvriye is a national workers' movement in Haiti known to be active at least since 1994.-Politics:While it negotiated the first contract in the Free Trade Zone in Haiti, it agitated for workers' rights while making ideological attacks upon Haiti's democratically elected progressive Fanmi...
- Batay Ouvriye
Honduras
- Central General de Trabajadores (Honduras)
The General Workers Central , also known as the General Workers Confederation and the General Confederation of Labor, is a national trade union center in Honduras. It is traditionally associated with the National Party of Honduras....
- Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras
The Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras is a national trade union center in Honduras. It was formed in 1992....
- Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras
The Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras is a national trade union center in Honduras. It is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions. Unions affiliated to FUTH include Union of Beverage and Related Industry Workers ....
- Honduras Workers' Confederation
The Confederation of Honduran Workers is the largest national trade union center in Honduras. It was formed in 1964. The CTH is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.-History:...
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
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Indian Trade UnionsIn India the Trade Union movement is generally divided on political lines. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, trade unions had a combined membership of 24,601,589 in 2002...
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List of trade unions in the Singareni coal fields.
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- Kerala Gazetted Officers' Union
The Kerala Gazetted officers' Union is a common platform for the gazetted officers of Kerala having democratic and seculiarist views. KGOU started functioning in the state of Kerala during 1984, separating from KGOA after the martyrdom of Smt. Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India...
- Indian Railway Trade Unions
- All KARNATAKA Kannadigara Workers union .
- Karnataka Auto driver Union
- Karnataka Workers Union
- All India Railway Men's Federation www.airfindia.com
- Northern Railway Men's Union www.nrmu.net
- Bank Employees Federation of India
- Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Centre of Indian Trade Unions , CITU is a National level Trade Union in India politically attached to the Communist Party of India . The Centre of Indian Trade Unions is today one of biggest assembly of workers and classes of India...
- Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union
Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union is a trade union of jute mill workers in West Bengal, India. The union is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. The general secretary of BCMU is Gobinda Guha and the president is Niren Ghosh....
- Calcutta Tramways Workers' and Employees' Union
Calcutta Tramways Workers' and Employees' Union is a trade union of workers at the Kolkata tramway. CTW&EU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. CTW&EU was founded in 1975....
- Cochin City Motor Thozhilali Union
Cochin City Motor Thozhilali Union, a trade union of transportation worker in Cochin, India. CCMTU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. The president of CCMTU is T.S. Shanmughadas....
- Darjeeling District Newspaper Sellers' Union
Darjeeling District Newspaper Sellers' Union, a trade union of newspaper sellers in the Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. DDNSU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. The union president is Nantu Paul....
- Forward Seamens Union of India
Forward Seamens Union of India is a trade union, affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, organizing Indian sailors....
- Maharashtra Sugarcane Cutting and Transport Workers Union
Maharashtra Sugarcane Cutting and Transport Workers Union, a trade union at the sugarfields of Maharashtra, India. MSCTWU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. The president of the union is Dr. D.L. Karad....
- Otis Elevators Employees Union
Otis Elevators Employees Union, a trade union of elevator installers and repairers at the Otis company, Maharashtra, India. OEEU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. In 1998 OEEU organized 490 out of 700 field employees....
- Siliguri Dokan Sramik Karmachari Union
- Steel Plant Employees Union
The Steel Plant Employees Union is a trade union at the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in Visakhapatnam, India. SPEU is affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions. The SPEU president is V. Dhanaraju....
- Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat
Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat , is a national trade union confederation in India. Its national president is George Fernandes.- Literature :...
- Konkan Railway Corporation Employees Union
Konkan Railway Corporation Employees Union, a trade union of employees of the Konkan Railway, India. KRCEU is affiliated to the Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat.In the union elections in 2005 KRCEU got 32% of the votes, and lost its hold of the union....
- Municipal Mazdoor Union
Municipal Mazdoor Union, a trade union of municipal workers in Mumbai. MMU is affiliated to the Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat....
- Hind Mazdoor Sabha
- All India Jute Textile Workers' Federation
All India Jute Textile Workers' Federation, a trade union of jute mill workers in India. The union is affiliated to the Hind Mazdoor Sabha....
- Coimbatore District Textile Workers Union
Coimbatore District Textile Workers Union, a trade union in the textile industry in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, India. CDTWU is affiliated to the Hind Mazdoor Sabha. The general secretary of CDTWU is A. Subramaniam and the president is Rajamani ....
- Kudremukh Shram Shakthi Sanghatan
Kudremukh Shram Shakthi Sanghatan , a trade union at the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd., Karnataka, India. KSSS is affiliated to Hind Mazdoor Sabha. The general secretary of KSSS is S. Venkataraya, and the President is M. Lokayya Shetty.-Further reading:*, Business Line, 2000*, Times of India,...
- MCF Employees' Union
MCF Employees' Union, a trade union at the Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers, in Karnataka, India. MCFEU is affiliated to Hind Mazdoor Sabha....
- Indian Federation of Trade Unions
- Darjeeling Jela Dokan Sramik Union
Darjeeling Jela Dokan Sramik Union , a trade union of shop workers in Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India. DJDSU is affiliated to the Indian Federation of Trade Unions....
- Indian National Trade Union Congress
Indian National Trade Union Congress is the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. It was founded May 3, 1947, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, INTUC had a membership of 3892011 in...
- Labour Progressive Federation
Labour Progressive Federation, trade union federation in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The LPF is politically attached to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, LPF had a membership of 611,506 in 2002....
- NLC Workers Progressive Union
NLC Workers Progressive Union, a trade union amongst miners employed at the Neyveli Lignite Corporation, in Tamil Nadu, India. NLCWPU is affiliated to the Labour Progressive Federation. The president of NLCWPU is S. Dhandapani....
- National Federation of Atomic Energy Employee
- AEEA (IGCAR)
- BARCFEA (BARC facilities)
- GSO SA (GSO)
- TAPEU (MAPS)
- MAPSA (MAPS)
- DPS (DAE)
- EA (MRPU)
- CATSA
- Confederation Of Atomic & Space Scientists/Technologists, COAST
- Trade Union Coordination Committee
Trade Union Coordination Committee, a central trade union federation in India. TUCC is politically attached to All India Forward Bloc. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, TUCC had a membership of 732760 in 2002....
- Bengal Hawkers Association
The Bengal Hawkers Association is a trade union of hawkers in West Bengal, India. BHA is affiliated with the Trade Union Coordination Committee. BHA was founded in 1950, and is the oldest hawkers union in the state....
- Association of Motion Pictures & TV Programme Producer of India
The Association of Motion Pictures & TV Programme Producer of India is a trade union in India.-See also:* Federation of Western India Cinema Employees* Foundation for the Promotion of Film Arts* Cinema of India...
- BSNL Employees Union Central Headquarters New Delhi
- Federation of Western India Cine Employees
Federation of Western India Cine Employees is a film industry worker's union in Mumbai, India. As of 2002 it had 50,000 members.-Affiliations:FWICE is a member of UNI APRO, itself part of Union Network International ....
- Indian National Trade Union Congress
Indian National Trade Union Congress is the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. It was founded May 3, 1947, and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. According to provisional statistics from the Ministry of Labour, INTUC had a membership of 3892011 in...
- Kerala Private Pharmacist's Association (KPPA)
- Kerala Gazetted Officers' Federation
Kerala Gazetted Officers' Federation is an organization of government employees in Kerala, India. It is politically connected to the Janatha Dal....
- Kerala State Transport Employees Front
Kerala State Transport Employees Front is a trade union of Kerala State Road Transport Corporation employees in Kerala, India. It is affiliated to the Kerala Trade Union Congress ....
- Maharashtra General Kamgar Union
Maharashtra General Kamgar Union, a trade union federation in Maharashtra, India. MGKU was led by late Datta Samant. After the assassination of Samant, the presidency of MGKU was taken over by his brother Dada Samant....
- Mazdoor Mukti Morcha
Mazdoor Mukti Morcha , the Punjab affiliate of the All India Agricultural Labour Association, the agriworker wing of Communist Party of India Liberation....
- Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh
The Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh is a trade union for textile mills in Mumbai, India....
- Sarv Karamchari Sangh Haryana
- Socialist Trade Union Centre
Socialist Trade Union Centre is a trade union federation in Kerala, India. It was started in 2003 by the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana, an Ezhava caste-based movement. Its first affiliated union was the Socialist Motor Thozhilali Union, a union of autorickshaw drivers in Kottayam....
- Trade Union Centre of India
Trade Union Centre of India is a national central trade union organization in India. It is linked to the Communist Party of India . Initially it was founded as the trade union wing of Communist Party of India Red Flag, but in 2005 CPI Red Flag merged with CPI.The 5th All India Conference of TUCI...
- United Trade Union Centre-Lenin Sarani
- All India Defence Employees Federation
All India Defence Employees Federation is a trade union in India that organizes civilian workers in factories and other establishments under the Ministry of Defence. AIDEF is supported jointly by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions and the All India Trade Union Congress. AIDEF was founded in...
- Bengal Jute Mill Workers' Union
Bengal Jute Mill Workers' Union is a trade union of jute mill workers in West Bengal, India. The union is affiliated to the All India United Trade Union Centre....
- Bengal Provincial Chatkal Mazdoor Union
Bengal Provincial Chatkal Mazdoor Union is a trade union of jute mill workers in West Bengal, India. The union is affiliated to the United Trade Union Congress....
- Murshidabad Self Employed Geriatric Healthcare Workers Association
Indonesia
- Confederation of All Indonesian Workers' Union
The Confederation of All Indonesian Workers' Union is a national trade union center in Indonesia. It was formed from the All-Indonesia Union of Workers, which was the only legally registered trade union centre in Indonesia during the Suharto era....
- Confederation of Indonesia Prosperous Trade Union
The Confederation of Indonesia Prosperity Trade Union is a national trade union centre in Indonesia. It was founded in 1992 and claims a membership of 2.1 million. SBSI was the first independent national federation to form during the Suharto dictatorship, suffering considerable state repression...
Iran
- Central Council of Trade Unions
Central Council of Workers Unions was an organization of trade unions in Persia. The organization was founded in 1921 by the Communist Party of Persia and socialists. The Central Council became the most important mass organization of the Communist Party at the time...
- Central Council of United Trade Unions
The Central Council of United Trade Unions was a trade union centre in Iran.-Founding:...
- Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran
The Central Union of Workers and Peasants of Iran was a central trade union organization in Iran. EMKA was founded in 1947, after a split from the government-sponsored ESKI. They attempted to work with other unions, such as ESKI, but soon their cooperation turned to open aggression and armed...
- Ettehadiyeh-ye Sendika-ye Kargaran-e Iran
Ettehadiyeh-ye Sendika-ye Kargaran-e Iran was a trade union centre in Iran. It was founded on the initiative of the Ministry of Labour and Propaganda in September 1946, with the explicit purpose of competing with the Tudeh-led Central United Council of the Trade Unions of Workers and Toilers of Iran...
- Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network often abbreviated as IWSN, is an international network of Iranian trade union and workers' right activists. Established in 2000, it currently has chapters in 13 countries around the world....
- Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company
The Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company is a trade union centered around the Greater Tehran region. It has a membership of over 17,000 labourers; most of whom work for the United Bus Company of Tehran . Initially established in 1968, its activity has been intermittent...
- Union of Toilers of Iran
The Union of Toilers of Iran was a trade union organization in Iran. On May 8, 1944, it merged into the larger Central Council of United Trade Unions....
Iraq
- General Federation of Trade Unions
- Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions
The Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions is the largest union federation in Iraq and the only officially recognized trade union body. It was formed in the aftermath of the Iraq War by several groups, most prominently the Iraqi Communist Party, which wished to disassociate itself from the National...
- Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq
Founded in October 2005 from unions that had begun organizing after the invasion, the Federation of Oil Unions of Iraq is the largest independent union consortium in Iraq, with tens of thousands of members...
Historical Unions
- Electricity Supply Staff Association (Dublin)
The Electricity Supply Staff Association was a trade union in Ireland. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1936.-See also:* List of trade unions* Transport and General Workers' Union* TGWU amalgamations...
- Galway Workers' and General Labourers' Union
The Galway Workers and General Labourers Union was established in August 1911 by William O'Halloran and a number of other dock labourers. Within a short period, following discussions with James O'Connor Kessock, it was absorbed by the Liverpool-based National Union of Dock Labourers, later the...
- Irish Mental Hospital Workers' Union
The Irish Mental Hospital Workers' Union was a trade union in Ireland. It was formed in 1912 as a split from the National Asylum Workers' Union, and it merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1926.-History:...
- Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
The Irish Transport and General Workers Union, an Irish trade union, was founded by James Larkin in 1908 as a general union. Initially drawing its membership from branches of the Liverpool-based National Union of Dock Labourers, from which Larkin had been expelled, it grew to include workers in a...
- Irish Union of Hairdressers and Allied Workers
The Irish Union of Hairdressers and Allied Workers was a trade union in the United Kingdom representing hairdressers, barbers, and hairdressers assistants. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1969.-See also:* List of trade unions...
- Power Loom Tenters' Trade Union of Ireland
The Power Loom Tenters' Trade Union of Ireland was a trade union in the United Kingdom. It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1937.-See also:* List of trade unions* Transport and General Workers' Union* TGWU amalgamations...
- Workers' Union of Ireland
The Workers' Union of Ireland , later the Federated Workers' Union of Ireland, was an Irish trade union formed in 1924. In 1990, it merged with the Irish Transport and General Workers Union to form the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union .- Formation :The WUI was formed in 1924...
Current Unions
- Unite - the Union
- Amicus
Amicus was the United Kingdom's second-largest trade union, and the largest private sector union, formed by the merger of Manufacturing Science and Finance, the AEEU agreed in 2001, and two smaller unions, UNIFI and the GPMU...
- Association of Higher Civil & Public Servants
- Association of Irish Traditional Musicians
- Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland
- Bakers, Food & Allied Workers Union
- Bakery and Foodworkers Amalgamated Union
- British Actors Equity Association
- Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union
- Building and Allied Trades Unions
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy , is the professional body and trade union for physiotherapists in the United Kingdom.Formed by four nurses in 1894, the Society now has more than 50,000 members.-Membership:There are four levels of membership:...
- Civil and Public Services Union
The Civil and Public Services Union , is an Irish trade union for clerical and administrative grades in the civil service, the wider public sector and the private sector. It is a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions....
- Communication Workers' Union (Ireland)
- Communication Workers' Union (UK)
- CONNECT
Connect is a former British trade union representing approximately 20,000 workers in the communications industry. Connect's President is Denise McGuire The final general secretary was Adrian Askew...
- Electricity Supply Board's Officer's Association
- FDA
- Federated Union of Government Employees
- Fire Brigades Union
The Fire Brigades Union is a trade union in the United Kingdom for wholetime Firefighters , Retained Duty System and Emergency Control Room staff...
- GMB
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 600,000 members. Its members are drawn from many sectors, with particular strength amongst manual workers in local government and the health service...
- Graphical Paper and Media Union
- Guinness Staff Union
- Independent Workers Union of Ireland
The Independent Workers Union of Ireland is a trade union in Ireland with its headquarters in Cork City. It was formed by Irish workers dissatisfied with the trade union movement in Ireland which it states, has "become nothing more than an arm of the state and management." It has 1,000 paying...
- Irish Bank Officials' Association
The Irish Bank Officials Association is a trade union representing staff in the finance sector in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and those employed by Irish financial organisations in Great Britain and overseas....
- Irish Federation of University Teachers
- Irish Medical Organisation
The Irish Medical Organisation is a Professional association for Doctors in the Republic of Ireland which also acts as a Trade Union representing doctors in negotiations with the Irish government....
- Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union
The Irish Municipal, Public and Civil Trade Union is a trade union in the Republic of Ireland. It primarily organises workers in education, health, local government and the civil service...
- Irish National Teachers' Organisation
The Irish National Teachers' Organisation , in Irish Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann, which was founded in 1868, is the largest teachers' trade union in Ireland. It represents teachers at primary level in the Republic of Ireland, and at primary and post-primary level in Northern Ireland. The head office...
- Irish Nurses Organisation
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation was founded in 1919. It is the largest Irish professional union for nurses and midwives with 35,000 members....
- MANDATE
The Mandate trade union was formed in 1994 with the amalgamation of IDATU and INUVGATA trade unions.It describes itself as:It is affiliated with the Irish Congress of Trade Unions.-History:...
- NAPO
The National Association of Probation Officers is the trade union that represents probation officers and Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service reporters in the United Kingdom.NAPO was formed in 1912...
- National League of the Blind
- National Union of Journalists
The National Union of Journalists is a trade union for journalists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1907 and has 38,000 members. It is a member of the International Federation of Journalists .-Structure:...
- National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades
- National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers is a trade union in the United Kingdom which unionises transport workers. It has more than 80,000 members, and its current general secretary is Bob Crow...
- National Union of Sheet Metal Workers of Ireland
- Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance
NIPSA or the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance is a trade union based in Northern Ireland. It is the largest white collar trade union in Northern Ireland. It is organised into two distinct groupings, the Civil Service Group and the Public Officers Group...
- Operative Plasterers and Allied Trades Society of Ireland
- Prison Officers Association
The POA: The Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers is a trade union in the United Kingdom "for prison, correctional and secure psychiatric workers." It currently has a membership of 33,500...
- Prospect
Prospect is a United Kingdom trade union which represents engineers, managers, scientists and other specialists in both the public and private sectors. It was formed on 1 November 2001 by the merger of the trade unions the Institution of Professionals Managers and Specialists and the Engineers and...
- Professional Footballers' Association of Ireland
- Psychiatric Nurses Association
- Public and Commercial Services Union
The Public and Commercial Services Union is the sixth largest trade union in the United Kingdom. Most of its members work in government departments and other public bodies although some work for private companies.- Membership and organisation :...
- Public Service Executive Union
- Sales, Marketing and Administrative Union of Ireland
- Seaman's Union of Ireland
- Services, Industrial, Professional & Technical Union
SIPTU , or in Irish: CSTGT is Ireland's largest trade union, with around 200,000 members. Most of these members are in the Republic of Ireland, although the union does have a Northern Ireland branch...
- Teachers' Union of Ireland
Teachers' Union of Ireland , in Irish Aontas Múinteoirí Éireann, is a trade union representing teachers in post-primary schools and lecturers in third level Universities, Colleges and Institutes of Technology...
- Technical Engineering and Electrical Union
The Technical Engineering and Electrical Union is an engineering union in IrelandThe union represents a broad range of workers throughout industry and public service...
- Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association is a trade union for "white collar" workers in the transport industry in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland...
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians
The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians is a British and Irish trade union which represents, as of December 2009, 127,433 workers in construction and allied trades, an increase of nearly 17,000 since 2003....
- Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers is a trade union in the United Kingdom. Consisting of over 405,000 members, USDAW is the UK's fourth largest and fastest growing trade union. Membership has increased by more than 17% in the last five years and by nearly a third in the last decade...
- University and College Union
The University and College Union is a British trade union formed by the merger in 2006 of the Association of University Teachers and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education ....
- UNISON
UNISON is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom with over 1.3 million members.The union was formed in 1993 when three public sector trade unions, the National and Local Government Officers Association , the National Union of Public Employees and the Confederation of Health Service...
- Veterinary Ireland
- Veterinary Officers Association
Italy
Jamaica
- Bustamante Industrial Trade Union
The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union is a trade union center in Jamaica established by Sir Alexander Bustamante. It is affiliated to the global union federation - International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association....
- Jamaica Airline Pilots Association
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- Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers
The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers is a 5,000-member public sector trade union in Jamaica which represents workers in local and national government, governmental corporations, quasi-government bodies and other agencies created by statute...
- Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions
The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions is a national trade union center in Jamaica. It is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation.-Origins:...
- Jamaica Civil Service Association
- National Workers Union
The National Workers Union is a general trade union in Jamaica. The National Workers Union was founded on 2 April 1952 emerging as a result of a split within the Trade Union Congress and factional alignments within the People's National Party . The NWU became the main trade union of the PNP...
- Jamaican Teachers Association
- Jamaican Union of Public Officers and Public Employers
Japan
- Japan Teachers Union
, often just called , is Japan's largest and oldest labor union of teachers and school staffs. The union is known for its critical stance against the conservative Liberal Democratic Party government on such issues as Kimi ga Yo, the Flag of Japan, and the screening of history text books since its...
- RENGO
- Sohyo
Sōhyō , the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan, founded in 1950 is the predominantly public sector union confederation in Japan. It merged with RENGO in 1990....
- National Union of General Workers
The The National Union of General Workers is the shortened, English title of the National Union of General Workers National Council , a national labour union council established in 1991...
- General Union
Founded in 1991, the ' is a labor union headquartered in Osaka, Japan. It mainly represents teachers and staff who are employed in language education at private conversation schools, high schools and universities in the Kansai and Chubu regions of Japan. Recently the union has started major...
- Tozen
' is a Japanese labor union. Known as the Tokyo General Union, or , was formed in 2010, and is one of few foreign-led multiethnic unions in Japan...
Kazakhstan
Lesotho
Lithuania
Luxembourg
- General Civil Service Confederation
- Luxembourg Association of Bank and Insurance Employees
- Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions
The Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions , abbreviated to LCGB, is a Luxembourgish trade union confederation. As its statutes state, it abides by the 'principles of Christian social teachings'....
- Luxembourg Confederation of Independent Trade Unions
Republic of Macedonia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
- Confederation of Mexican Workers
- General Confederation of Workers (Mexico)
The Confederación General de Trabajadores is a federation of labor unions in Mexico. It was founded in February 1921 by anarchists, syndicalists and others on the far left who opposed the more moderate, pro-government Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana...
- Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers
The Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana is a federation of labor unions in Mexico....
- Sindicato ünico de Trabajadores Electricistas de la República Mexicana
- National Union of Mine and Metal Workers of the Mexican Republic
The National Union of Mine and Metal Workers of the Mexican Republic is a union of coal and copper miners, as well as iron and steel workers, in Mexico. It was founded in 1934, and in 1936 it became an affiliate of the newly formed Confederation of Mexican Workers .The SNTMMSRM's leaders were...
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana
- National Social Security Workers Union
The National Social Security Workers Union is a Mexican labor union representing employees of the Mexican Social Security Institute .The Leader of the SNTSS is Roberto Vega Galina....
- Sindicato de Trabajadores Ferrocarrileros de la República Mexicana
The Union of Railroad Workers of the Mexican Republic is labor union that represents railroad workers in Mexico. It was founded in 1933. It became affiliated with the Confederation of Mexican Workers in 1936. It is enrolled in the PRI....
- Federación de Sindicatos de Trabajadores al Servicio del Estado
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación
The Mexican National Educational Workers Union is the largest trade union in Latin America, with over 1.4 million members. Formed in 1949, the SNTE is composed of local sections in each of Mexico's states...
- Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria Química y Petroquímica, Carboquímica, Similares y Conexos de la República Mexicana
- Union of Cinema Production Workers
Union of Cinema Production Workers was an autonomous Mexican trade union. It was formed in 1944 after splitting off from the CTM-affiliated Union of Cinema Industry Workers . Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" served as its first secretary general....
- Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Asociación Sindical de Pilotos Aviadores de México
- Asociación Sindical de Sobrecargos de Aviación de México
- Confederación Nacional Campesina
- Central Campesina Independiente
- Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos
The Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos is a Mexican trade union confederation. It is one of the most important and influential trade unions in the History of Mexico....
- Congreso del Trabajo
- Federación de Sindicatos de Bienes y Servicios
- Federación de Sindicatos Unidos del Valle de México
- Federación de Trabajadores del D.F.
- Authentic Labor Front
The Authentic Labor Front is an independent confederation of labor unions in Mexico. It was formed as a progressive "Social Catholic" organization in 1960 in response to the nation's labor strife of 1958-1959. Following the strikes of these years, the Mexican government replaced the leaders of the...
- Sindicato de Telefonistas de la República Mexicana
- Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria de la Radiodifusión, la Televisión, Similares y Conexos de la República Mexicana
- Sindicato de Trabajadores del Sistema de Transporte Colectivo METRO
- Sindicato de Trabajadores Ferrocarrileros de la República Mexicana
The Union of Railroad Workers of the Mexican Republic is labor union that represents railroad workers in Mexico. It was founded in 1933. It became affiliated with the Confederation of Mexican Workers in 1936. It is enrolled in the PRI....
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de Aviación y Similares
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Secretaría de Hacienda y del Servicio de Administración Tributaria
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente, Recursos Naturales
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Secretaría de Salud
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Autotransporte y Comunicaciones, Similares y Conexos de la República Mexicana
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Desarrollo Integral de la Familia
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
- Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Servicio Postal Mexicano
- Sindicato Nacional Revolucionario de Trabajadores de la Compañía Hulera Euzkadi
- Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores de Autotransportes Urbanos de Pasajeros, Ruta 100
- Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores de la Industria Nuclear
- Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores de la Música del D.F.
- Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores del Banco de México
- Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores del Gobierno del Distrito Federal
- Sindicato Unico Nacional de Trabajadores de Telecomunicaciones de México
- National Association of Actors
The National Association of Actors is the Mexican actors guild. It is a member of the Bloque Latinoamericano de Actores that includes all of the actors' unions in Latin America....
(Asociación Nacional de Actores)
- Asociación Nacional de Interpretes
Morocco
Netherlands
- Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging
The Federatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging is a federation of trade unions of the Netherlands.-History:...
- Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond
The Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond is a federation of trade unions of the Netherlands.-History:...
- CNV Public
CNV Public is a trade union affiliate of the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond in the Netherlands. It was formed in 1983 from the merger of the ARKA, NCBO, and the NCVVV.CNV Public represents civil servants and healthcare workers in the Netherlands....
- Vakcentrale Voor Middengroepen en Hoger Personeel
- Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingen
The Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingen was a Dutch social-democratic trade union.-History:...
- Nederlandse Vereniging van Luchtvaart Technici
- Algemene Bond voor Casinopersoneel
Netherlands Antilles
- Bonaire Federation of Labour
The Bonaire Federation of Labour is a trade union federation on the island of Bonaire in the Netherlands Antilles. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Central General di Trahadonan di Corsow
The Central General di Trahadonan di Corsow is a trade union federation on the island Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Trade Union Centre of Curaçao
The Trade Union Centre of Curaçao is a trade union federation on the island Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Windward Islands Federation of Labour
The Windward Islands Federation of Labour is a trade union federation on the island of Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. It represents the majority of workers on the island and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
New Zealand
- New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions is a national trade union center in New Zealand. The NZCTU represents 360,000 workers, and is the largest democratic organisation in New Zealand....
- New Zealand Air Line Pilots' Association
The New Zealand Air Line Pilots' Association is a trade union in New Zealand. It represents more than 2000 members. Including over 1600 pilots and flight instructors, and 340 air traffic controllers....
- Alloy Yachts Employees Federation
- Amalgamated Workers Union of New Zealand
- Central Amalgamated Workers' Union
The Central Amalgamated Workers' Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It is one of three autonomous unions, with the Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union, and the Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union, who operate nationally as the Amalgamated Workers' Union .The AWUNZ is a member of the New...
- Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union
The Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It is one of three autonomous unions, with the Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union, and the Central Amalgamated Workers' Union, who operate nationally as the Amalgamated Workers' Union.The AWUNZ is a member of the New Zealand...
- Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union
The Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It is one of three autonomous unions, with the Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union, and the Central Amalgamated Workers' Union, who operate nationally as the Amalgamated Workers' Union.The AWUNZ is a member of the New Zealand...
- APEX
The Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff was a British trade union which was formed in 1890 as the Clerks Union and later was renamed as the National Union of Clerks...
- Association of Salaried Medical Specialists
The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists is a trade union in New Zealand. It has a membership of 3500 and represents salaried consultant doctors and dentists who are employed in New Zealand District Health Boards....
- Association of Staff in Tertiary Education Te Hau Takatini o Aotearoa
The Association of Staff in Tertiary Education is a national trade union in New Zealand. It was formed in 1988 by the merger of the Teacher Colleges Association , and the NZ Association of Polytechnic Teachers . The majority of members are from polytechnics...
- Association of University Staff of New Zealand
The Association of University Staff of New Zealand was a national trade union in New Zealand. At its peak, it represented 6500 workers employed in New Zealand universities...
- Auckland Society of International Flight Planners
- Aviation & Marine Engineers Association
- Bakers & Pastrycooks Union
- Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa
The Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa is a trade union in New Zealand. It has a membership of 750, and is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions....
- Corrections Association of New Zealand
The Corrections Association of New Zealand is a national trade union in New Zealand. It represents corrections staff within the New Zealand prison system. It has a membership of 3000.CANZ is a member of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions....
- Customs Officers' Association of New Zealand
The Customs Officers' Association of New Zealand is a trade union in New Zealand. It is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.-External links:* at NZCTU....
- New Zealand Dairy Workers Union
The New Zealand Dairy Workers Union is a national trade union in New Zealand. It represents 7000 workers active in dairy factories, town milk supply, processing plants, stores and warehousing, packing, can-making, and other ancillary activities including drivers.The NZDWU is affiliated with the...
- Finance and Information Workers Union
Finance and Information Workers Union is a small organising trade union covering about 6,600 workers in the New Zealand finance sector. It was formed in 1990 from the merger of the Bank Officers’ Union and theInsurance Workers Union....
- Firestone Employees Society
The Firestone Employees Society is a trade union in New Zealand affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.-External links:* at the NZCTU....
- Flight Attendants and Related Services Association
The Flight Attendants & Related Services Association is a national trade union in New Zealand. It represents NZ based flight attendants at Air New Zealand International including Flight Service Managers and Inflight Airline Concierges...
- Furniture, Manufacturing & Associated Workers Union
The Furniture, Manufacturing & Associated Workers Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It has a membership of 620, and is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.-External links:* at the NZCTU....
- Independent School Teachers Association
- Manufacturing & Construction Workers Union
- Maritime Union of New Zealand
The Maritime Union of New Zealand is a trade union which represents waterfront workers, seafarers and related workers in New Zealand. It was formed in 2002 from the merger of the New Zealand Waterfront Workers' Union and the New Zealand Seafarers' Union....
- Meat Union Aotearoa
The Meat Union Aotearoa is a trade union in New Zealand. It was formed August 1, 1994 by the merging of the Auckland & Tomoana Freezing Workers Union and the West and East Coast Branches of the New Zealand Meat & Related Trades Workers Union....
- Medical Laboratories Workers Union
- National Distribution Union
The National Distribution Union is a national trade union in New Zealand. It was formed in 1986 as the Northern Distribution Union by the merger of The Northern Drivers Union, The Northern Stores and Warehouse Union, The Auckland and Gisborne Shop Employee Union, and The Northern Butchers and...
- New Zealand Actors Equity
- New Zealand Building Trades Union
The New Zealand Building Trades Union is a national trade union in New Zealand. It traces its roots back to a carpenters and joiners union in 1860.The NZBTU has 1400 members and is a member of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions....
- New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roa
The New Zealand Educational Institute is the largest education trade union in New Zealand. It was founded in 1883 and has a membership of 51,000.The NZEI is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, and Education International....
- New Zealand Police Association
- Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union
The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union is the largest private sector trade union in New Zealand. It was formed in 1996 by the merger of the Engineers' Union , the Printing, Packaging and Manufacturing Union , and the Communications and Energy Workers' Union .The EPMU represents workers...
- New Zealand Meat & Related Trades Workers Union
The New Zealand Meat & Related Trades Workers Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It represents workers in the New Zealand meat industry. This includes workers in Freezing works, Tanneries, Fertiliser plants, halal slaughtermen, small meat processing plants and small goods.The NZ Meat Workers...
- NZ Merchant Service Guild Industrial Union of Workers
The NZ Merchant Service Guild Industrial Union of Workers is a trade union in New Zealand. It represents workers in sea-going ships, as well as the waterfront/ports/shore-based shipping industry, and the passenger/tourism industry....
- New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is New Zealand's largest trade union and professional organisation that represents the nursing profession, midwives and caregivers....
- New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union
The New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union is a trade union which represents Fire Service employees in New Zealand.The NZPFU is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions...
- New Zealand Public Service Association
The NZPSA –New Zealand Public Service Association Te Pukenga Here Tikanga Mahi – is a democratic union representing the interests of around 59,000 members working in government departments, local government, the health sector, crown agencies, state-owned enterprises and community and...
- New Zealand Writers Guild
The New Zealand Writer's Guild is a New Zealand trade union which represents writers in the fields of film, television, radio, theatre, video and multi-media. It provides services, events, networks, lobbying, and legal advice to those in the film and television industry...
- Northern Chemical Workers Union
- Post Primary Teachers' Association
- Postal Workers Association
- Postal Workers Union
- Rail & Maritime Transport Union
The Rail & Maritime Transport Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It represents transport workers in all aspects of the transport industry; rail, road and ports....
- Service & Food Workers Union of Aotearoa
The Service & Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota is a trade union in New Zealand. It is affiliated with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions.The SFWU is organised into five industry sectors:*Age Care, Disability, Health & Community Services...
- Solidarity Union
Solidarity Union is a trade union in New Zealand and was founded in August 2006.The Solidarity Union seeks to organise workers in clusters in South Auckland around an area strategy building local workers councils...
- Southern Local Government Officers Union
- Stores and Warehouse Employees Union
- Tertiary Institutes Allied Staff Association
- Tramways Employees Union
- Unite Union
The Unite Union is a trade union in New Zealand. It is the sponsor of the campaign directed towards improving working conditions for fast food workers in the country, in addition to representing other hospitality and retail workers...
Nicaragua
- Confederation of Labour Unification
The Confederación de Unificación Sindical is a national trade union center in Nicaragua. It was formed in 1964 as the Nicaraguan Trade Union Council ....
- Nicaraguan Workers' Centre
The Nicaraguan Workers' Centre is a national trade union center in Nicaragua. It was formed in 1962 as the Nicaraguan Autonomous Trade Union Movement , and changed its name to the CTN in 1972....
- Sandinista Workers' Centre
The Sandinista Workers' Centre is the dominant national trade union center in Nicaragua. It was formed following the Sandinista National Liberation Front revolution of 1979...
Niger
Norway
- Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO)
- EL & IT Forbundet
-External links:* official site....
- Norwegian Union of Chemical Industry Workers
- Norwegian Civil Service Union
- Norwegian Post and Communications Union
- Norwegian Seafarers' Union
The Norwegian Seafarers' Union is a trade union in Norway. The union was established 25 September 1910 under the name Norsk Matros- og Fyrbøter-Union . Current name was adapted 1933, though the use of the current English translation was gradually changed over several years around 2000 from...
- Norwegian Union of Food, Beverage and Allied Workers
- Norwegian Union of General Workers
-External links:* official site....
- Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees
The Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees is a trade union in Norway. It has a membership of 295,000 and is affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions ....
- Union of Employees in Commerce and Offices
- United Federation of Trade Unions
The United Federation of Trade Unions is a trade union in Norway. With a membership of 150,000 it is the largest private sector union in Norway.It is affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions...
- Confederation of Unions for Professionals, Norway
The Confederation of Unions for Professionals, Norway is a national trade union center in Norway. It was formed in 2001 and has a membership of 255,000 in nine affiliated unions.Unio claims to be politically neutral....
- Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations
The Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations is a national trade union center in Norway. It was formed in October, 1997 as a break-away union from the Academic and Professional Unions .Akademikerne has a membership of 126,000....
- NITO
The Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists is the largest union in engineering in Norway with approximately 64,000 members. NITO has 21 regional branches covering the country and over 2,000 local clubs and shop stewards. Most of the working members are affiliated to a local club...
Major Federations
Other Federations
- Port Workers' Federation
- All Pakistan Govt. Employees Federation
- All Pakistan Transport Workers' Federation
Major Unions
- K.P.T Labour Union
- Railway Worker's Union Pakistan
- Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union
- People's Unity of PIA Employees
- P.T.C.L Worker's Union
- All Pakistan PWD Worker's Union
- Pakistan Brick Kiln Labour Union
- Pakistan Postal Worker's Union
- K.E.S.C Labour Union
Panama
- Central National de Trabajadores de Panama
The Central National de Trabajadores de Panama is a national trade union center in Panama. It is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions....
- Confederation of Workers of the Republic of Panama
The Confederation of Workers of the Republic of Panama is a national trade union center in Panama. It has a claimed membership of 35,000 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Convergencia Sindical
The Convergencia Sindical is a national trade union center in Panama. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- General Confederation of Workers of Panama
The General Confederation of Workers of Panama is a national trade union center in Panama. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- SUNTRACS
SUNTRACS, properly called El Sindicato único nacional de trabajadores de la industria de la construcción y similares , is one of the leading trade union forces in Panama, with 40,000 members and a militant style of class war unionism...
Paraguay
- Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (Paraguay)
The Central Unitaria de Trabajadores is a national trade union center in Paraguay. It was founded in 1989 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Confederación Paraguaya de Trabajadores
The Paraguayan Workers Confederation or CPT is a national trade union center in Paraguay. It was formed in 1951 with close ties to the Colorado Party. In 1958, after a general strike, many unionists were exiled, and formed the CPT-E, a CPT in exile....
- National Workers' Central (Paraguay)
The National Workers' Central is a national trade union center in Paraguay. It was formed in 1963 as the Christian Workers' Central and changed its name in 1978.The CNT is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
- General Confederation of Workers (Puerto Rico)
The General Confederation of Workers was a union federation in Puerto Rico.The CGT was formed in March 1940 at a congress held in San Juan. The congress was attended by delegates from 42 unions, and it had an initial membership of 72,000. The small Puerto Rican Communist Party played a leading...
- Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico
The Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico is a union of teachers in Puerto Rico. Its primary base is among employees of the Departamento de Educación Pública de Puerto Rico....
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Commercial, Technical and Allied Workers' Union
The Commercial, Technical and Allied Workers' Union is a trade union in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It has a membership of 2000 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- National Labour Congress
The National Labour Congress is the sole national trade union centre of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The affiliated unions of the NLC are: Commercial, Technical and Allied Workers Union, the St...
- National Workers' Movement (St. Vincent)
The National Workers' Movement is a trade union in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines Public Service Union
The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Public Service Union is a trade union in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines....
San Marino
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Serbia
- Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia
- United Branch Trade Unions "Independence"
- Postmans Trade Union
The Postman Trade Union "Postman" is national trade union of postmen employed in national Post Office of Republic of Serbia...
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
- Congress of South African Trade Unions
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 1985 and is the biggest of the country’s three main trade union federations, with 21 affiliated trade unions, altogether organising 1.8 million workers.-Establishment:COSATU was established in...
- Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union
The Chemical, Energy, Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union is a trade union in South Africa.CEPPWAWU is an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions ....
- Communication Workers Union (South Africa)
The Communication Workers Union is a trade union in South Africa. It was formed in May, 1996by the merger of the Post Office Employees Association ,the Post and Telecommunication Workers Association and the South African Post Telecommunication Employees Association .CWU is an affiliate of the...
- Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa is a trade union in South Africa.DENOSA is an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and became a full member of the International Council of Nurses on 15 June 1997....
- Food and Allied Workers Union
The Food and Allied Workers Union is a trade union in South Africa.FAWU is an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions ....
- Musicians Union of South Africa
The Musicians Union of South Africa is a trade union in South Africa. It has a membership of 700 and is affiliated with the Congress of South African Trade Unions.-External links:* at the COSATU....
- National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union
-External links:* official site....
- National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is the biggest metalworkers trade union in South Africa with more than 216 000 members...
- National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)
-External links:* official site....
- Performing Arts Workers' Equity
The Performing Arts Workers' Equity is a small trade union in South Africa. It has a membership of only 365, but is affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions.-External links:* at the COSATU.* at UNESCO...
- Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union is a trade union in South Africa representing police officers, trafiic officers and correctional officers, it has around 120,000 members. POPCRU was formed in 1989....
- SASBO - The Finance Union
SASBO – The Finance Union is a trade union in South Africa. It was founded in 1916 and has a membership of 59,000.SASBO is affiliated with the Congress of South African Trade Unions...
- South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers Union
The South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers Union is a trade union in South Africa. It is affiliated with the Congress of South African Trade Unions.-External links:* at the COSATU....
- South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union
The South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union is a trade union in South Africa.SACCAWU is an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions ....
- South African Democratic Nurses' Union
The South African Democratic Nurses' Union is a trade union in South Africa.SADNU is an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions ....
- South African Democratic Teachers Union
The South African Democratic Teachers Union is a trade union in South Africa.SADTU is an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions .-External links:*...
- South African Football Players Union
The South African Football Players Union is a trade union that represents football players in South Africa. It has a membership of approximately 200 and is affiliated with the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and FIFPro....
- South African Medical Association
The South African Medical Association is a trade union for doctors in South Africa. It is affiliated with the Congress of South African Trade Unions.-External links:* ....
- South African Municipal Workers' Union
-External links:* official site....
- South African State and Allied Workers' Union
- South African Transport and Allied Workers Union
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union is a trade union in South Africa. It was founded in May, 2000 and has a membership of 82,000....
- Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union
The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union is the biggest union in the clothing, textile and leather industry, with more than 100 000 members...
- Confederation of South African Workers' Unions
- Federation of Unions of South Africa
- Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa
The Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa is a trade union in South Africa. It has a membership of 50,000 and represents employees in the Public Service as well as in the private sector....
- Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union
The Independent Municipal & Allied Trade Union is a trade union in South Africa. It has a membership of 73,000 and is affiliated with the Federation of Unions of South Africa.-External links:* official site.*...
- Public Servants Association of South Africa
The Public Servants Association of South Africa is a trade union in South Africa. It has a membership of 180,000 and is affiliated with the Federation of Unions of South Africa....
- United Association of South Africa
The United Association of South Africa is a trade union in South Africa. It has a membership of 100,000 and is affiliated with the Federation of Unions of South Africa...
- National Council of Trade Unions
The National Council of Trade Unions is a national trade union center in South Africa. It has a membership of 397,000 and was formed by the merger of the Council of Unions of South Africa and the Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions ....
South Korea
- Federation of Korean Trade Unions
The Federation of Korean Trade Unions was formed in 1961 after a military coup, and the dissolution of the General Federation of Korean Trade Unions and its affiliates...
- Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions is a national trade union centre officially established in 1995. Its predecessor was the National Council of Trade Unions , established in 1990 as an independent alternative to the Federation of Korean Trade Unions. With 682,418 members in 2007, the KCTU...
- Korean Teachers & Education Workers' Union
The Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union is a labor union of teachers in South Korea. The organization has 77,000 members among the 360,000 public and private school teachers in the country....
Spain
- Workers' Commissions
The Workers' Commissions since the 1970s has become the largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members and is the most successful union in labor elections, competing with the socialist Unión General de Trabajadores , with the syndicalist Confederación General del Trabajo ...
- Unión General de Trabajadores
The Unión General de Trabajadores is a major Spanish trade union, historically affiliated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .-History:...
- Confederación General del Trabajo
The General Confederation of Labour of Spain is an Anarcho-Syndicalist trade union, arisen from the 1979 split of CNT/AIT after the arrival of democracy and the following reorganization and restructuring process of the trade unions....
- Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo is a Spanish confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions affiliated with the International Workers Association . When working with the latter group it is also known as CNT-AIT...
- Confederación Intersindical Galega
- Agrarian Trade Union Federation
Agrarian Trade Union Federation was a national-syndicalist trade union in Spain, founded in 1933 in Castile. The federation was linked to the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista.-Sources:...
- Basque Workers' Solidarity
Basque Workers' Solidarity is the most influential trade union in Basque Country, having been created, as Solidaridad de Obreros Vascos, by members of the Basque Nationalist Party on June 10, 1911, in Bilbao.It has been opposed to the influence of trade unions who appealed...
- Euskal Langileen Alkartasuna
- Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak
LAB is a Basque nationalist trade union operating mainly in Spain currently led by Ainhoa Etxaide.It was created in 1974 by Jon Idigoras among others...
- Spanish Trade Union Organisation
The Spanish Trade Union Organisation , commonly known as Vertical Syndicate , was the only legal trade union organisation in Francoist Spain , and a main component of the Movimiento Nacional Francoist apparatus...
- Typographic Workers Trade Union
Typographic Workers Trade Union was a trade union of typographers in Spain. Founded in 1897, it was the first Catholic trade union in the country.-Sources:...
- Workers Collectives
Workers Collectives was a Catalan left-nationalist trade union.-History:CC.TT. functioned as the trade union wing of the Socialist Party of National Liberation . CC.TT. was formed in May 1977. Prior to the formation of CC.TT., PSAN had worked within CC.OO.. In 1979 CC.TT...
- Workers in Struggle Collectives
Col·lectius d'Obrers en Lluita was a Catalan left-nationalist trade union. COLL functioned as the trade union wing of the Socialist Party of National Liberation - provisional . COLL, which was formed by members of CC.OO. emerged in January 1977, with cells in Barcelona, Lleida and Majorca...
Sri Lanka
- All Ceylon United Motor Workers' Union
The All Ceylon United Motor Workers Union is a trade union which organises workers in the passenger bus sector in Sri Lanka. It is affiliated to the Ceylon Federation of Labour .-History:...
- Ceylon Electricity Board Engineer's Union
- Ceylon Federation of Labour
The Ceylon Federation of Labour is an organisation bringing together trade unions in the private, semi-government and co-operative sectors of Sri Lanka.- History :...
- Ceylon Mercantile Union
The Ceylon Mercantile Union is one of the largest trade unions in the commercial sector in Sri Lanka.The Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers Union was originally built in 1928 as a white-collar union in the mercantile sector. Victor Corea and A.E...
- GCSU Sri Lanka
The Government Clerical Service Union is a trade union of clerical workers who work in the public sector in Sri Lanka. This was formed in the 1920s when Sri Lanka was under British colonial rule...
- National Union of Workers
The National Union of Workers is an active trade union in the tea plantations in Sri Lanka. The NUW was established in 1965 by V. K. Vellayan, his colleague with the most effective labour force in the tea plantation in Sri Lanka...
- United Corporations and Mercantile Union
The United Corporations and Mercantile Union is a Sri Lankan trade union which brings together workers in the public sector.The UCMU was founded in 1968. Dr N.M. Perera became its President and Anil Moonesinghe became its General Secretary. Moonesinghe travelled the country from factory to...
Suriname
- Federation of Civil Service Organizations
The Federation of Civil Service Organizations is a trade union federation of Suriname. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- General Alliance of Labour Unions in Suriname
The General Alliance of Labour Unions in Suriname is a trade union federation in Suriname. It was founded in 1951.In 1982 Cyrill Daal, the president of De Moederbond, was executed by the military....
- Organization of Cooperating Autonomous Trade Unions
The Organization of Cooperating Autonomous Trade Unions is a trade union federation in Suriname. It was founded in 1985 out of a leadership dispute at the General Alliance of Labour Unions in Suriname....
- Progressive Labour Federation 47
The Progressive Labour Federation 47 is a trade union federation in Suriname. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
Swaziland
- Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions
-External links:* and the COSATU.* -Affiliates:There are 21 trade unions affiliated to the SFTU.* Building and Construction Workers Union * Swaziland Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union * Swaziland Commercial Workers Union...
- Swaziland Federation of Labour
The Swaziland Federation of Labour was created in 1994 as a break-away union from the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions. It has 12 affiliates covering manufacturing, retail, finance, IT, media and non-teaching staff, amongst other things. Originally 5,000 strong, the membership of the...
- Swaziland Health Institutions and Allied Workers Union
Sweden
- Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees
The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation for eighteen trade unions in Sweden that organise professional and other qualified employees within both the private and the public sectors...
- Swedish Trade Union Confederation
The Swedish Trade Union Confederation , commonly referred to as LO, is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fifteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-collar" workers...
- Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations
The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations is a confederation of 26 independent professional associations in Sweden. It gathers some 556,000 members, all of whom are academics or graduate professionals with a university or college degree. The members include economists, lawyers,...
Switzerland
- Swiss Federation of Trade Unions
- syndikat - Die Online Gewerkschaft
- Travail.Suisse
Travail.Suisse is a trade union in Switzerland. It was formed in December, 2002 by the merger of the Christlichnationaler Gewerkschatsbund der Schweiz and the Vereinigung Schweizerischer Angestelltenverbände...
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
- Friendly Islands Teachers' Association
The Friendly Islands Teachers' Association is a trade union in Tonga. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Tonga Nurses' Association
The Tonga Nurses' Association is a trade union in Tonga. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation....
- Tonga Conga Line Association
Current Unions
- Airline Superintendents Association
The Airline Superintendents Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago with most of its members in the former airline of BWIA....
- All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers' Trade Union
- Airline Superintendents Association
The Airline Superintendents Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago with most of its members in the former airline of BWIA....
- Amalgamated Workers Union
The Amalgamated Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. The bulk of its members are employed by the Port of Spain City Corporation....
- Association of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Staff
The Association of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Staff is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago with the bulk of its members in the former Caroni Ltd, the state owned sugar industry that closed in July 2003....
- Aviation, Communication and Allied Workers Union
The Aviation, Communication and Allied Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago, most of whose members work for BWIA West Indies Airways.-See also:* List of trade unions...
- Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union
The Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. It was formed on 21 February 2003 out of a merger between the Bank and General Workers Union and the Bank Employees Union...
- Communication, Transport and General Workers Union
The Communication, Transport and General Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago with most of its members in the former airline of BWIA....
- Communication Workers Union
The Communication Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago which has the bulk of its members in the Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago ....
- Contractors and General Workers Trade Union
The Contractors and General Workers Trade Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. It is the recognised majority Union for daily rated workers at the San Fernando City Corporation and also has other bargaining units....
- Customs and Excise Extra Guards Association
The Customs and Excise Extra Guards Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago which represents Extra Guards in the Customs and Excise Division of the Ministry of Finance....
- Electronic Media Union of Trinidad and Tobago
The Electronic Media Union of Trinidad and Tobago is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. It main membership base was in the now defunct National Broadcasting Network which was the state broadcasting company....
- Emperor Valley Zoo
The Emperor Valley Zoo is the main zoo in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located north of the Queen's Park Savannah and west of the Botanic Gardens in Port of Spain....
- Estate Police Association
The Estate Police Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago which represents precepted security staff....
- Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations
Arising out of the 2000 Convention of NATUC, the main national trade union centre in Trinidad and Tobago, divisions took place which resulted in the formation of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations...
- Fire Services Association
- Managers and Supervisors Association
- National Petroleum Staff Association
The National Petroleum Staff Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. It organises senior staff in the state owned National Petroleum company....
- National Union of Domestic Employees
The National Union of Domestic Employees is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago.In 1974, Clotil Walcott, along with James Lynch, Salisha Ali and others, established The National Union of Domestic Employees as a section of the Union of Ship Builders, Ship Repairers and Allied Workers Union...
- Oilfields Workers' Trade Union
The Oilfields Workers Trade Union or OWTU is one of the most powerful trade unions in Trinidad and Tobago. Currently led by Ancil Roget, the union was born out of the 1937 labour riots, the union was nominally led by the imprisoned TUB Butler but was actually organised by lawyer Adrian Cola Rienzi...
- National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago
- National Union of Government and Federated Workers
- National Workers' Union
- Public Services Association
The Public Services Association of Trinidad and Tobago is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. It was originally known as the Civil Service Association but changed its name in 1971....
- Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union
The Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago. Its historical base was the port but this has shrunk in significance over the years. It retains a dock and seafarers membership but has expanded into organising local factories such as National Flour Mills and...
- Steel Workers Union of Trinidad and Tobago
The Steel Workers Union of Trinidad and Tobago is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago....
- Transport and Industrial Workers Union
The Transport and Industrial Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago.-External links:*...
- Trinidad and Tobago Postal Workers Union
The Trinidad and Tobago Postal Workers Union is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago which is the recognised union for postal workers employed by TTPost....
- Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association
The Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago with members in the former BWIA, now Caribbean Airlines, and Tobago Express....
- Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association
The Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago and is the representative organisation for teachers who are employed in the public education sector. Its membership approximates 10,800 teachers in active service and 1,200 retiree members...
- Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers
The Union of Commercial and Industrial Workers is a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago which was once one of the major unions organising shop workers. It has since diminished in both size and significance....
Historical Unions
- All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union
All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union, founded by Adrian Cola Rienzi was the major sugar workers' trade union and the predominant Indo-Trinidadian voice in organised labour in Trinidad and Tobago between the 1930s and 1970s...
- Amalgamated Engineering and General Workers' Trade Union
The Amalgamated Engineering and General Workers' Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1959 with the Federated Workers Trade Union....
- Bank and General Workers Union
The Bank and General Workers Union , a former trade union in Trinidad and Tobago, was formed on 17 April 1974 and represented workers in over 60 companies, including all the workers at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago. It merged with the Bank Employees Union on 21 February 2003 to form the...
- Bank Employees Union
The Bank Employees Union , a former trade union in Trinidad and Tobago, started as a staff association in 1974 out of a consultative committee which was adopted with partners from other banks in the Barclays group....
- British Colonial Taxpayers and All Workers Union
The British Colonial Taxpayers and All Workers Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1959 with the Federated Workers Trade Union....
- Civil Service Association
The Civil Service Association is a former trade union in Trinidad and Tobago which changed its name in 1971 to the Public Services Association...
- Communication Services and General Workers Trade Union
The Communication Services and General Workers Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that transferred its daily paid members to the National Union of Government Employees in 1959. The Union no longer exists.-See also:* List of trade unions...
- Federated Workers Trade Union
The Federated Workers Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that was formed in 1935. It was Registered in 1937 and became the recognised union for some workers in the private sector but also those in the Public Works Department and the Trinidad Government Railways.In 1959 the...
- Government Farm and Nursery Workers Trade Union
The Government Farm and Nursery Workers Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1957 with the Industrial and Railway Employees Trade Union and the Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union to form the National Union of Government Employees-See also:* List of trade...
- Industrial and Railway Employees Trade Union
The Industrial and Railway Employees Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1957 with the Government Farm and Nursery Workers Trade Union and the Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union to form the National Union of Government Employees-See also:* List of trade...
- National Union of Government Employees
In 1957 the National Union of Government Employees , a former trade union in Trinidad and Tobago, was formed as a result of a merger between the Industrial and Railway Employees Trade Union, the Government Farm and Nursery Workers Trade Union and the Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union...
- Public Works and Public Service Workers Trade Union
The Public Works and Public Service Workers Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged with the National Union of Government Employees in 1959.-See also:* List of trade unions* Federated Workers Trade Union...
- Staff Association of Barclays Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Limited
The Staff Association of Barclays Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Limited, a former trade union in Trinidad and Tobago, was registered on 2nd May 1974. The Association changed its name to the Bank Employees Union when the Bank‘s name changed to Republic Bank Limited in 1981.-See also:* List of trade...
- TTT Senior Staff Association
The TTT Senior Staff Association was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that organised senior staff at TTT, the Trinidad and Tobago Television service. TTT was merged into the National Broadcasting Network and was later closed....
- Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union
The Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1957 with the Government Farm and Nursery Workers Trade Union and the Industrial and Railway Employees Trade Union to form the National Union of Government Employees-See also:* List of trade...
Turkey
Uganda
- National Organization of Trade Unions
The National Organization of Trade Unions is one of the two national trade union centers in Uganda in addition to the Central Organisation of Free Trade Unions, Uganda The National Organization of Trade Unions (NOTU) is one of the two national trade union centers in Uganda in addition to the...
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- Central Organisation of Free Trade Unions, Uganda (COFTU)
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- General Federation of Trade Unions (UK)
The General Federation of Trade Unions is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It has 35 affiliates with a membership of just over 214,000 and describes itself as the "federation for specialist unions".-History:...
- Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in the United Kingdom, representing the majority of trade unions...
- Scottish Trades Union Congress
The Scottish Trades Union Congress is the co-ordinating body of trade unions, and local Trades Councils, in Scotland. With 39 affiliated unions as of 2007, the STUC represents around 630,000 trade unionists....
Current Unions
- ACCORD
Accord is a trade union for HBOS workers within the Lloyds Banking Group. It has more than 30,000 members and is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions....
- Advance
- Aegis
- Alliance for Finance
The Alliance for Finance is a trade union federation in the United Kingdom.The Alliance for Finance was founded in 1996 on the initiative of the Barclays Group Staff Union to encourage more joint campaigning and solidarity between the many trade unions and staff associations covering the banking...
- Aspect
Aspect is a trade union in the United Kingdom for professionals working in children's services.The union was founded in 1919 by four school inspectors as the National Association of Inspectors of Schools and Educational Organisers . Membership rose to around 200 by the mid-1920s, and the...
- Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen is the trade union representing railway workers in Great Britain who are train drivers or in the line of promotion to train driver....
- Associated Train Crew Union
- Association for Clinical Biochemistry
- Association for College Management
The Association for College Management was a trade union in the United Kingdom.The union was founded in 1965 as the Association of Vice-Principals of Colleges, representing middle managers in colleges of further and higher education. In 1987, it was renamed the Association of College Management,...
- Association of Educational Psychologists
The Association of Educational Psychologists is a trade union in the United Kingdom.The British Psychological Society represented educational psychologists until 1962, when it received chartered status...
- Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland
The Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland is a Scottish trade union established in 1975 to represent head teachers and deputy head teachers from nursery, primary and special schools in Scotland. It has 1,385 members....
- Association of Licensed Aircraft Engineers
- Association of Local Authority Chief Executives
- Association of Management and Professional Staffs
- Association of Principal Fire Officers
- Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel
- Association of Professional Music Therapists in Great Britain
- Association of Revenue and Customs
The Association of Revenue and Customs is a trade union and also a subdivision of the FDA trade union which represents senior managers and professionals working in HM Revenue and Customs...
- Association of School and College Leaders
The Association of School and College Leaders , formerly the Secondary Heads Association , is the British professional association for leaders of secondary schools and colleges.-History:...
- Association of Somerset Inseminators
- Association of Teachers and Lecturers
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers is a trade union, teachers' union and professional association, affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, in the United Kingdom representing educators from nursery and primary education to further education...
- Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers' Union is a trade union in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1847 in Manchester, it is a trade-based union of workers in the food industry....
- Balfour Beatty Group Staff Association
- Belfast Airport Police Association
- Boots Pharmacists Association
- Britannia Staff Union
The Britannia Staff Union is a trade union in the United Kingdom.The union was founded in 1972 as the Leek and Westbourne Building Society Staff Association, and was certified as an independent union in 1976. In 1984, it was renamed the Britannia Building Society Staff Association, becoming the...
- British Air Line Pilots' Association
- British Association of Colliery Management
- British Association of Dental Nurses
- British Association of Journalists
- British Association of Occupational Therapists
- British Dental Association
The British Dental Association is the largest voluntary membership organisation for dentists in the UK.-Structure:The majority of the BDA’s 22,000 members are family dentists, working in general practice providing both National Health Service and private care...
- British Dietetic Association
The British Dietetic Association is a professional association and trade union for dieticians in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1936 and became a certified union in 1982; it is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Scottish Trades Union Congress.The BDA was established in 1936...
- British Medical Association
The British Medical Association is the professional association and registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council. The association’s headquarters are located in BMA House,...
- British Orthoptic Society
- Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union
The Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union is a trade union in the United Kingdom. It has around 26,500 members who work in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure and interactive media....
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy , is the professional body and trade union for physiotherapists in the United Kingdom.Formed by four nurses in 1894, the Society now has more than 50,000 members.-Membership:There are four levels of membership:...
- Cheshire Building Society Staff Association
- City Screen Staff Forum
- Communication Workers Union
The Communication Workers Union is the main trade union in the United Kingdom for people working for telephone, cable, DSL and postal delivery companies, with 215,000 members....
- Community
Community is a UK trade union representing workers in the iron and steel, domestic appliance manufacturing, clothing, textiles, footwear and betting industries as well as workers in voluntary organisations, workshops for visually impaired and disabled people, community-care providers and housing...
- Community and District Nursing Association
- Connect
Connect is a former British trade union representing approximately 20,000 workers in the communications industry. Connect's President is Denise McGuire The final general secretary was Adrian Askew...
- Council of Civil Service Unions
- Currys Supply Chain Staff Association
- Dental Practitioners Association
- Derbyshire Group Staff Union
The Derbyshire Group Staff Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom, representing workers at the Derbyshire Building Society.The union was founded in 1972 as the Derbyshire Building Society Staff Association. In 1979, it applied for a Certificate of Independence, but this was refused. At the...
- Diageo Staff Association
The Diageo Staff Association was a small trade union in the United Kingdom.The union was founded in 1965 as a staff committee at the Guinness brewery in Park Royal, London. Originally named the Guinness Brewing Staff Association, it gained a Certificate of Independence in 1979, when it had only...
- Educational Institute of Scotland
The Educational Institute of Scotland is the oldest teachers' trade union in the world, having been founded in 1847 when dominies became concerned about the effect of changes to the system of education in Scotland on their professional status....
- Engineering Officers Technical Association
- EQUITY
- FDA (trade union)
- Federation of Professional Railway Staff
- Fire Brigades Union
The Fire Brigades Union is a trade union in the United Kingdom for wholetime Firefighters , Retained Duty System and Emergency Control Room staff...
- Fire Officers Association
- G4S Justice Services Staff Association
- Gallaher Sales Staff Association
- General Federation of Trade Unions
The General Federation of Trade Unions is a national trade union centre in the United Kingdom. It has 35 affiliates with a membership of just over 214,000 and describes itself as the "federation for specialist unions".-History:...
- GMB
The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom, and has more than 600,000 members. Its members are drawn from many sectors, with particular strength amongst manual workers in local government and the health service...
- Guild of Professional Teachers of Dancing
- Harrods Staff Union
- The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
- Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association
The Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association is a professional body in the UK specifically designed for senior hospital doctors. Its membership has increased dramatically over the last years possibly due to re-negotiation of the Hospital Consultants Contract.-External links:*...
- Immigration Service Union
- IMPACT
- Independent Democratic Union
- Independent Federation of Nursing in Scotland
- Independent Workers Union
- Industrial Workers of the World – British Isles
- Institute of Football Management and Administration
- Institute of Journalists Trade Union
- International Federation of Air line Pilots Associations
- Irish Bank Officials Association
- Irish National Teachers' Organisation
The Irish National Teachers' Organisation , in Irish Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann, which was founded in 1868, is the largest teachers' trade union in Ireland. It represents teachers at primary level in the Republic of Ireland, and at primary and post-primary level in Northern Ireland. The head office...
- Lawson Mardon Star Ltd Managerial Staff Association
- Lecturers Employment Advice and Action Fellowship
- LEGION
- Leeds Building Society Staff Association
- Leek United Building Society Staff Association
- Leicestershire Overmen Deputies and Shotfirers Association
- Lloyds TSB Group Union
- Locum Doctors Association
- Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Association
- Musicians Union
-About the MU:The Musicians' Union is an organisation which represents over 30,000 musicians working in all sectors of the UK music business.-Campaigns:The MU stages regular campaigns in relation to relevant musical and industrial issues...
- NAPO
The National Association of Probation Officers is the trade union that represents probation officers and Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service reporters in the United Kingdom.NAPO was formed in 1912...
- National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers
The National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers represents colliery deputies and under-officials in the coal industry. NACODS was established as a national organisation in 1910...
- National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers (South Wales Area)
- National Association of Co-operative Officials
The National Association of Co-operative Officials is a trade union for staff in the co-operative sector in the United Kingdom, principally the Co-operative Group and other retail societies, Co-operatives UK and the Co-operative Party....
- National Association of Head Teachers
The National Association of Head Teachers is a trade union representing Headteachers, deputy headteachers and assistant headteachers and other school and college leaders in the United Kingdom.-External links:**...
- National Association of NFU Group Secretaries
- National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers
The NASUWT is a trade union representing teachers, including headteachers, throughout the United Kingdom....
- National Federation of Sub-Postmasters
The National Federation of SubPostmasters is a national trade union with both commercial trading and charitable arms that represents the interests of subpostmasters in the United Kingdom. It is the only organisation recognised by the Post Office to represent subpostmasters....
- National House Building Council Staff Association
- National Society for Education in Art and Design
- National Union of Journalists
The National Union of Journalists is a trade union for journalists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1907 and has 38,000 members. It is a member of the International Federation of Journalists .-Structure:...
- National Union of Mineworkers
- National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
- National Union of Students
-British Isles:*National Union of Students**National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland**National Union of Students Scotland**National Union of Students Wales-Scandinavia:*Danish National Union of Students*National Union of Students in Finland...
(NUS)
- National Union of Teachers
The National Union of Teachers is a trade union for school teachers in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It is a member of the Trades Union Congress...
- Nationwide Group Staff Union
The Nationwide Group Staff Union is an independent trade union in the United Kingdom. It has a membership of over 12,000 and represents workers within the Nationwide Building Society and its associated companies....
- Nautilus
Nautilus UK is a British trade union representing shipmasters, officers and cadets serving on merchant ships, as well as other maritime workers such as harbourmasters and marine pilots.- History :...
- Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance
- NISA
- North of England Zoological Society Sraff Association
- Palm Paper Staff Association
- PDA Union
- POA
The POA: The Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers is a trade union in the United Kingdom "for prison, correctional and secure psychiatric workers." It currently has a membership of 33,500...
- Prison Governors Association
- Prison Service Union
- Prison Staff Association
- Professional Association of Cabin Crew Employees
- Professional Cricketers Association
- Professional Footballers Association
- Professional Rugby Players Association
The Rugby Players Association is a trade union representing athletes who currently play or have played rugby union in England at a professional or semi-professional level. Established in 1998, it was originally called the Professional Rugy Players' Association ; in October 2009 it changed its name...
- Prospect
Prospect is a United Kingdom trade union which represents engineers, managers, scientists and other specialists in both the public and private sectors. It was formed on 1 November 2001 by the merger of the trade unions the Institution of Professionals Managers and Specialists and the Engineers and...
- Public and Commercial Services Union
The Public and Commercial Services Union is the sixth largest trade union in the United Kingdom. Most of its members work in government departments and other public bodies although some work for private companies.- Membership and organisation :...
- Retail Book Association
- Retained Firefighters Union
The Retained Firefighters' Union is a British trade union representing over 3,000 retained personnel within the Retained Duty System .The RFU was formed in 1976...
- Retired Officers Association
- Royal College of Midwives
The Royal College of Midwives is a British midwives organisation which has existed under its present name since 1947.-History:The Matrons' Aid Society, renamed the Midwives' Institute in 1881, was founded by Louisa Hubbard and Zepharina Veitch to raise the training and status of midwives...
- Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing is a union membership organisation with over 395,000 members in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1916, receiving its Royal Charter in 1928, Queen Elizabeth II is the patron...
- RSPB Staff Association
- Scarborough Building Society Staff Association
- Scottish Artists Union
The Scottish Artists Union is the representative voice for visual and applied artists in Scotland.-History:The Scottish Artists Union was formally constituted in 2001, becoming the first new trade union of the 21st century...
- Scottish Carpet Workers Union
- Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association
Founded in 1944, the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association is Scotland's second largest teachers' union, set up to focus on secondary issues, initially as a reaction to the perception of undue influence exercised on national education issues at that time by the primary sector...
- Services, Industrial, Professional & Technical Union
- Shield Guarding Staff Association
- Skipton Staff Association
- Society of Authors
The Society of Authors is a trade union for professional writers that was founded in 1884 to protect the rights of writers and fight to retain those rights .It has counted amongst its members and presidents numerous notable writers and poets including Tennyson The Society of Authors (UK) is a...
- Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists
- Society of Radiographers
The Society of Radiographers is a professional body and a trades union that represents more than 90% of the diagnostic and therapeutic radiographers in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1920...
- Society of Union Employees (UNISON)
- Solidarity
- Staff Association of Bank of Baroda (UK Region)
- Staff Union Dunfermline Building Society
- Staff Union West Bromwich Building Society
- Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
The Transport Salaried Staffs' Association is a trade union for "white collar" workers in the transport industry in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland...
- UBAC
- UDW
- UFS
- Ulster Teachers' Union
The Ulster Teachers' Union is a trade union based in Northern Ireland, whose membership mostly comprises primary school teachers working in the state sector. It has 6,429 members. The UTU has close links with the Irish National Teachers Organisation, an all-Ireland trade union who represent the...
- Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru
Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru commonly referred to as UCAC, was formed in Wales from a split from the NUT in the late 40's over the issue of the Welsh language in teaching...
- Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians
The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians is a British and Irish trade union which represents, as of December 2009, 127,433 workers in construction and allied trades, an increase of nearly 17,000 since 2003....
- Union of Country Sports Workers
- Union of Democratic Mineworkers
The Union of Democratic Mineworkers is a British trade union not recognised by the TUC or the Labour party for coal miners, which is based in Nottinghamshire, England...
- Union of General & Volunteer Workers
- Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
The Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers is a trade union in the United Kingdom. Consisting of over 405,000 members, USDAW is the UK's fourth largest and fastest growing trade union. Membership has increased by more than 17% in the last five years and by nearly a third in the last decade...
- UNISON
UNISON is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom with over 1.3 million members.The union was formed in 1993 when three public sector trade unions, the National and Local Government Officers Association , the National Union of Public Employees and the Confederation of Health Service...
- United Road Transport Union
The United Road Transport Union is a trade union in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1890 and has a membership of over 14,000. The URTU represents workers throughout the UK Logistics Sector involved in Warehousing, Driving and general distribution....
- Unite - the Union
- Unity
Unity, formerly the Ceramic and Allied Trades Union, is a British trade union, created in the early 19th century to protect pottery workers from dangerous conditions of their field. In 2006 it changed its name to Unity....
- United and Independent Union
- University and College Union
The University and College Union is a British trade union formed by the merger in 2006 of the Association of University Teachers and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education ....
- VOICE
Voice 'The union for education professionals' is an independent British Trade Union for teachers, lecturers and other education and childcare workers in British education...
- Warwick International Staff Association
- Welsh Rugby Players Association
The Welsh Players Association , founded in 2003, is the representative body for professional rugby union players in Wales. Its General Secretary is Neil Maclean-Smith, who succeeded previous General Secretary, Dean Sheehan and former Chief Executive, Richard Harry. Rhys Williams, former Wales and...
- Whatman Staff Association
- Workers Uniting
Workers Uniting is a trans-Atlantic trade union created in 2008 by a merger of Unite the Union of the United Kingdom and Ireland with the U.S.-based United Steelworkers union . Both unions still retain individual branding and leadership.The merged union has a membership of three million members....
- Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. It is affiliated with both the Trades Union Congress and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds .-Activities:...
- Yorkshire Independent Staff Association
AFL-CIOThe American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...
- Air Line Pilots Association
- Amalgamated Transit Union
The Amalgamated Transit Union is a labor union in the United States and The Amalgamated Transit Union Canadian Council in Canada, representing workers in the transit system and other industries...
- American Federation of Government Employees
The American Federation of Government Employees is an American labor union representing over 625,000 employees of the federal government, about 5,000 employees of the District of Columbia, and a few hundred private sector employees, mostly in and around federal facilities...
- American Federation of Musicians
The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada is a labor union of professional musicians in the United States and Canada...
- American Federation of School Administrators
The American Federation of School Administrators or AFSA represents public school principals, vice principals, administrators, and supervisors in the United States...
- American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is the second- or third-largest labor union in the United States and one of the fastest-growing, representing over 1.4 million employees, primarily in local and state government and in the health care industry. AFSCME is part of the...
- American Federation of Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers is an American labor union founded in 1916 that represents teachers, paraprofessionals and school-related personnel; local, state and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff, and nurses and other healthcare professionals...
- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent, including actors in radio and television, as well as radio and television announcers and newspersons, singers and recording artists , promo and voice-over announcers and other...
- American Postal Workers Union
The American Postal Workers Union is a labor union in the United States. It represents employees of the United States Postal Service who are clerks, maintenance employees, and motor vehicle service workers...
- American Train Dispatchers Department
- Associated Actors and Artistes of America
The Associated Actors and Artistes of America is the federation of trade unions for performing artists in the United States. The following unions belong to the 4As:* The Actors' Equity Association * The American Guild of Musical Artists...
- Actors' Equity Association
The Actors' Equity Association , commonly referred to as Actors' Equity or simply Equity, is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance. However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or...
- American Guild of Musical Artists
The American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO is the American labor union that represents 8,000 current and retired opera singers, ballet and other dancers, opera Directors, backstage production personnel at opera and dance companies, and figure skaters.-Jurisdiction:According to its website it...
- American Guild of Variety Artists
American Guild of Variety Artists is an American entertainment union representing performers in variety entertainment, including circuses, Las Vegas showrooms and cabarets, comedy showcases, dance revues, magic shows, theme park shows, and arena and auditorium extravaganzas. It awards the "Georgie...
- The Guild of Italian American Actors
- Screen Actors Guild
The Screen Actors Guild is an American labor union representing over 200,000 film and television principal performers and background performers worldwide...
- Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union
The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union is a labor union in the United States and Canada. It has a membership of 100,000...
- Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen is a labor union in the United States and Canada. It represents workers who install and maintain signal systems on rail transport networks...
- California Nurses Association/ National Nurses Organizing Committee
- California School Employees Association
The California School Employees Association is the largest labor union in the United States. CSEA represents more than 230,000 public employees in California....
- Communications Workers of America
Communications Workers of America is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States representing about 550,000 members in both the private and public sectors. The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada representing about 8,000 members...
- Farm Labor Organizing Committee
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee , AFL-CIO, is a labor union representing migrant farm workers in the Midwestern United States and North Carolina.-History:...
- Federation of Professional Athletes/National Football League Players Association
- Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
- International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers
The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers is a union in the United States and Canada, which represents primarily construction workers, as well as shipbuilding and metal fabrication employees.-Origins:...
- International Association of Fire Fighters
The International Association of Fire Fighters is a labor union representing professional firefighters in the United States and Canada. The IAFF was formed in 1918 and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO in the United States and the Canadian Labour Congress in Canada. The IAFF is headquartered in...
- International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
The International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers is a trade union in the United States and Canada...
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx. 646,933 workers as of 2006 in more than 200 industries.-Formation and early history:...
- International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers is a trade union in the United States and Canada. It is for boilermakers and related occupations, and is affiliated with both the AFL-CIO and CLC....
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is a labor union which represents workers in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama and several Caribbean island nations; particularly electricians, or Inside Wiremen, in the construction industry and linemen and other...
- International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers , AFL-CIO & CLC, is a diverse labor union representing more than 80,000 women and men in professional, technical, administrative and associated occupations in the United States and Canada. Their members are employed by federal,...
- International Guards Union of America
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii and Alaska, and in British Columbia, Canada. It also represents hotel workers in Hawaii, cannery workers in Alaska, warehouse workers throughout...
- International Longshoremen's Association
The International Longshoremen's Association is a labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways...
- International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America
- International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers
The International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers or Novelty Workers traditionally represented workers at toy factories. Because that industry almost entirely moved to China, the trade union now represents other manufacturing, construction and healthcare workers...
- International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers is a labor union in the United States and Canada which represents bricklayers, pointers/cleaners/caulkers, stone and marble masons, cement masons, plasterers, tilesetters, terrazzo and mosaic workers...
- International Union of Elevator Constructors
The International Union of Elevator Constructors is a trade union in the United States and Canada of individuals who construct, modernize, repair, and service elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and other conveyances...
- International Union of Operating Engineers
The International Union of Operating Engineers is a trade union within the AFL-CIO representing primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers who maintain heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes, in the...
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades is a union representing about 140,000 painters, glaziers, wall coverers, flooring installers, convention and trade show decorators, glassworkers, sign and display workers, and drywall finishers in the United States and Canada...
- International Union of Police Associations
The International Union of Police Associations is a North American trade union chartered for law enforcement, corrections and related support personnel. IUPA is a participant in the AFL-CIO federation of trade unions. I.U.P.A. was originally chartered as the "National Conference of Police...
- Laborers' International Union of North America
The Laborers' International Union of North America is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of March 31, 2010, they have about 632,000 members, members, about 80,000 of which are in Canada.The current general president is Terence M...
- Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
- National Football League Players Association
- National Air Traffic Controllers Association
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association is a labor union in the United States. It is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, and is the exclusive bargaining representative for air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration...
- National Association of Letter Carriers
The National Association of Letter Carriers is an American labor union, representing non-rural letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service...
- Office and Professional Employees International Union
The Office and Professional Employees International Union is a trade union in the United States representing 110,416 white-collar workers in the public and private sector....
- Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association
The Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the United States and Canada is a trade union of plasterers and cement masons in the construction industry in the United States and Canada. Members of the union finish interior walls and ceilings of buildings and apply...
- Seafarers International Union of North America
The Seafarers International Union or SIU is an organization of 12 autonomous labor unions of mariners, fishermen and boatmen working aboard vessels flagged in the United States or Canada. Michael Sacco has been its president since 1988. The organization has an estimated 35,498 members and is the...
- Sheet Metal Workers International Association
- Transport Workers Union of America
Transport Workers Union of America is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100,...
- UNITE HERE
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with more than 265,000 active members The union's members work predominantly in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries...
- United American Nurses
United American Nurses was an American union affiliated with the AFL-CIO.Founded in 1999, it only represented registered nurses...
- United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada
The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the United Association is a trade union of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing, pipefitting, and sprinkler fitting industry of...
- United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial...
- United Mine Workers of America
- United Independent Technology Technicians of America
- United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union
The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union is the largest industrial labor union in North America, with 705,000 members. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, U.S., the United Steelworkers represents workers in the United...
- United Transportation Union
The United Transportation Union is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a broad-based, transportation labor union representing about 125,000 active and retired railroad, bus, mass transit, and airline workers in the United States....
- United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers
The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers is a union of roofers and waterproofing personnel, headquartered in Washington, D.C....
- Utility Workers Union of America
The Utility Workers Union of America is a labor union in the United States. It has a membership of 50,000 and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO. The union has over 50,000 members working in the electric, gas, water, and nuclear industries across the United States. Represents Utilty Workers in...
- Writers Guild of America, East
Writers Guild of America, East is a labor union representing writers of television and film and employees of television and radio news. The 2006 membership of the guild was 3,770....
CTWThe Change to Win Federation is a coalition of American labor unions originally formed in 2005 as an alternative to the AFL-CIO. The coalition is associated with strong advocacy of the organizing model...
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union is a labor union representing about 1.8 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States , and Canada...
- Workers United
Workers United is an American and Canadian union which represents about 100,000 workers in the textile, commercial laundry, and gaming industries....
- United Farm Workers of America
The United Farm Workers of America is a labor union created from the merging of two groups, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee led by Filipino organizer Larry Itliong, and the National Farm Workers Association led by César Chávez...
- United Food and Commercial Workers
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers in the United States and Canada in many industries, including agriculture, health care, meatpacking, poultry and food processing, manufacturing, textile, G4S Security, chemical...
Independent
- Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association
The Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association is a small, independent union representing aircraft maintenance employees of commercial airlines in the United States. AMFA is committed to the principles of craft unionism...
- Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions
The Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions consists of unions representing graduate employees at universities in Canada and the United States...
- Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...
- Dramatists Guild of America
The Dramatists Guild of America is a professional organization for playwrights, composers, and lyricists working in the U.S. theatre market.Membership as an Associate Member is open to any person having written at least one stage play. Active Members are playwrights who have had at least one play...
- Fraternal Order of Police
The Fraternal Order of Police is an organization of sworn law enforcement officers in the United States. It claims a membership of over 325,000 members organized in 2100 local chapters , organized into local lodges, state lodges, and the national Grand Lodge...
- Independent Pilots Association
The Independent Pilots Association is the collective bargaining unit for the more than 2800 airline pilots of United Parcel Service.-IPA Foundation:...
- International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades
- International Union Security * Police * Fire Professionals of America
- Jockeys' Guild
The Jockeys' Guild Inc. is an American trade association based in Lexington, Kentucky, representing thoroughbred horse racing and American quarter horse professional jockeys...
- Major League Baseball Players Association
The Major League Baseball Players Association is the union of professional major-league baseball players.-History of MLBPA:The MLBPA was not the first attempt to unionize baseball players...
- National Education Association
The National Education Association is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become...
- National Emergency Medical Services Association (NEMSA)
- Programmers Guild
The Programmers Guild is an American non-profit corporation that advocates against corporate outsourcing, the H1-B visa program and related topics. The Guild was founded in 1998 by John Miano, a New Jersey programmer. The current president is Kim Berry, a Sacramento based activist on outsourcing...
- NHL Players Association
The National Hockey League Players' Association or NHLPA is the labor union for the group of professional hockey players who are under Standard Player Contracts to the thirty member clubs in the National Hockey League located in the United States and Canada...
- National Basketball Players Association
The National Basketball Players Association is a trade association that represents basketball players in the National Basketball Association . It was previously a labor union before dissolving during the 2011 NBA lockout. It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major...
- National Rural Letter Carriers Association
- National Treasury Employees Union
The National Treasury Employees Union is an independent labor union representing approximately 150,000 employees of 30 agencies of the United States government...
- National Weather Service Employees Organization
The National Weather Service Employees Organization, known as the NWSEO, is the labor organization and professional association that represents 4,000 employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S...
- Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association or Policemen's Benevolent Association ' is the name of several labor unions representing police officers. One such union is the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, which is the largest union representing members of the New York City Police...
- Professional Lacrosse Players' Association
The Professional Lacrosse Players' Association is the trade union of players in indoor lacrosse's National Lacrosse League....
- Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is one of the largest building trades union in the United States. One of the unions that formed the American Federation of Labor in 1886, it left the AFL-CIO in 2001.-Early years:...
- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America , is an independent democratic rank-and-file labor union representing workers in both the private and public sectors across the United States....
- United Independent Technology Technicians Of America
- US Airline Pilots Association
The US Airline Pilots Association is the collective bargaining agent for US Airways pilots. The US Airline Pilots Association replaced the Air Line Pilots Association in a representational election and is an "in-house union" representing the interests of the US Airways pilots...
- World Umpires Association
The World Umpires Association is an organization of Major League Baseball umpires. It was certified by the National Labor Relations Board on February 24, 2000 as a bargaining agent. It took over as bargaining agent for MLB umpires before the 2000 MLB season, replacing the Major League Umpires...
- Writers Guild of America, west
Writers Guild of America, West is a labor union representing film, television, radio, and new media writers. The Guild was formed in 1954 from five organizations representing writers, which include the Screen Writers Guild...
Union Reform Groups
- Labor Notes
Labor Notes is a non-profit organization and network for rank-and-file union members and grassroots labor activists. Though officially titled the Labor Education and Research Project, the project is best known by the title of its monthly magazine. The magazine reports news and analysis about labor...
- Short Circuits
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Teamsters for a Democratic Union is a rank-and-file union democracy movement organizing to reform the International Brotherhood of Teamsters , or Teamsters. TDU was created out of the merger of the Professional Drivers Council and TDU in 1979...
Venezuela
- Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela
The Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela is a federation of labor unions in Venezuela. It has close links to the Democratic Action party....
- Movimiento Nacional de Trabajadores Para La Liberación
The Movimiento Nacional de Trabajadores Para La Liberación is a national trade union center in Venezuela. It was formed in 1974 and is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation.-References:...
- Unión Nacional de Trabajadores de Venezuela
See also
Lists of organizations
- List of employer associations
- List of civic, fraternal, service, and professional organizations
- List of reference tables for more lists in the field of business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
- List of organizers
List of Wikipedia articles on labor unions