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The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) was established in 1945 to replace the
The Trade Union International of Workers in Tourism and Hotels[16] was founded in 2009, the Trade Union International of Banks, Insurance and Financial Unions Employees[17] in 2011 and the Trade Union International of Trade Unions of Pensioners and Retired Persons in 2014.[18]
In 1997 the Trade Union International of Agroalimentary, Food, Commerce, Textile & Allied Industries was formed by the merger of the Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers, Trade Union International of Food, Tobacco, Hotel and Allied Industries Workers, Trade Union International of Workers in Commerce, Trade Union International of Textile, Leather and Fur Workers Unions.[15]
After the dissolution of the Eastern bloc, the Trade Unions International of Energy Workers and the Trade Union International of Metal and Engineering Workers temporarily suspended operations. In 1998 a conference was held in in Trade Unions International of Energy Workers in 2007. This left the metal workers an opportunity create a new TUI the next year, Trade Union International of Workers in the Mining, the Metallurgy and the Metal Industries.[12][15]
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Other than the initial eleven, two new TUIs were formed during the course of the Cold War:
Over time, some of these original eleven would expand their bases, change their names or merge:
During the late 1940s, the WFTU unsuccessfully tried to reach an agreement with already existing international trade secretariats. When the Union split in 1949 they were left without an organization at the level of specific industries. Therefore they created the:
The TUI system has gone through a number of transformations in its over 60 years of existence. The earliest TUI was the . The following Trade Unions Internationals are constituted within the WFTU:[3] .
National affiliates of the WFTU include:
The WFTU holds consultative status with the FAO, and other UN agencies. It maintains permanent missions in New York, Geneva, and Rome.
As part of its efforts to advance its international agenda, the WFTU develops working partnerships with national and industrial trade unions worldwide as well as with a number of international and regional trade union organizations including the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU), the Permanent Congress of Trade Union Unity of Latin America (CPUSTAL), and the General Confederation of Trade Unions of CIS countries.
In Africa, unions of major importance such as COSATU in South Africa, are debating the issue of affiliation with the WFTU.
In recent years, the WFTU has successfully managed to recruit several trade unions of importance in Europe, amongst which the Rail Maritime Trade Union in Great Britain, the Unione Sindicale di Base in Italy. In France, the CGT federation of food processing industry has maintained its affiliation with the WFTU. The CGT federation of Chemical industries sent delegates to the last congress in Athens in 2011. In 2013, two local CGT railway workers branches have taken steps to become affiliates with the WFTU.
The WFTU has declined precipitously in the past twenty years since the fall of the Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Third World, campaigning against imperialism, racism, poverty, environmental degradation and exploitation of workers under capitalism and in defense of full employment, social security, health protection, and trade union rights. The WFTU continues to devote much of its energy to organizing conferences, issuing statements and producing educational materials.
. Soviet Union, left later when their governments had ideological differences with the China and Yugoslavia A number of those unions, including those from [2]
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