Trade Union International of Workers in Commerce
The Trade Union International of Workers in Commerce was a trade union international affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.
History[]
The union was formed in 1959.[1]
In 1997 it merged with the Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers, Trade Union International of Food, Tobacco, Hotel and Allied Industries Workers, and Trade Union International of Textile, Leather and Fur Workers Unions to form the Trade Union International of Agroalimentary, Food, Commerce, Textile & Allied Industries.[2]
Organization[]
The highest organ in the union was the international conference. Then there was the administrative committee and the secretariat.[3]
In 1978 its address was listed as 57 Prague, 1[4] an address it would keep until at least 1991.[5]
Membership[]
When the TUI began it had 22 affiliated unions. At its 1976 conference it claimed 14,862,279 members in 50 affiliated unions in 44 countries.[6] By the mid 1980s it had 70 members organizations in 61 countries representing 20 million members [7]
In 1978 the following organizations were affiliated to the TUI:[8]
Albania -
Austria -
Benin -
Bulgaria -
Cameroon -
Chile -
China -
Colombia -
Congo -
Cuba -
Cyprus -
Czechoslovakia -
El Salvador -
France - Commerce, Services and Distribution Federation, CGT
France - , CGT
Guadeloupe - , CGT
East Germany - Union of Trade
Guyana -
Honduras -
Hungary -
India -
India -
Iraq -
Italy - Italian Federation of Commerce, Hotel and Service Workers
Jordan - (in exile)
North Korea -
Madagascar -
Mali -
Mauritius -
Mongolia -
Nigeria -
Nigeria -
Palestine - (in exile)
Panama -
Panama -
Peru -
Peru -
Poland -
Romania -
Sierra Leone -
Somalia -
Soviet Union -
Sri Lanka -
Sri Lanka -
Syria -
Tanzania -
Uruguay -
Venezuela - , (CUTV)
Vietnam -
South Yemen -
Publications[]
The TUI published News monthly and Bulletin quarterly in English, French, Spanish, German and Russian.[9]
Leadership[]
General Secretaries[]
- 1959: Domenico Banchieri
- 1964:
- Ilie Frunza
- 1980s: Alvaro Villamarin
Presidents[]
- 1959: Marie Radova
- Janos Vas
References[]
- ^ Coldrick, A. Percy and . The international directory of the trade union movement New York : Facts on File, [1978] p.183
- ^ Europa World Year Book London; Taylor & Francis, 2004 p.342
- ^ Coldrick and Jones p.183
- ^ Coldrick and Jones p.183
- ^ Trade unions of the world, 1992-1993. Harlow, Essex, U.K. : Longman ; Detroit, Mich. : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by Gale Research Inc., 1991 p.559
- ^ Coldrick and Jones p.183
- ^ The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985. Prague; Published by the WTFU in cooperation with PRACE Czechoslovak Trade Unions 1985 p.151
- ^ Coldrick and Jones pp.183-5
- ^ Coldrick and Jones p.183
- Trade Unions Internationals
- Trade unions established in 1959
- Trade unions disestablished in 1997
- 1997 disestablishments
- TUI of Agriculture, Food, Commerce, Textile and Allied Industries
- Defunct transnational trade unions