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International Federation Of Building Workers
The International Federation of Building Workers (IFBW) was a global union federation bringing together unions representing masons. History The German Central Union of Masons gradually built up international contacts in the late 19th-century. In 1903, it called a conference in Berlin, to formalise these relationships by establishing an international trade federation. The federation was established as the Building Workers' International, and was based in Hamburg from its foundation. By 1925, most of its member unions had merged with the carpenters' unions in their country, and so it agreed to absorb the Carpenters' International. This gave it 26 affiliates, with a total of 756,059 members. On 1 April 1934, the federation merged with the International Federation of Wood Workers, to form the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers. Affiliates The following unions were affiliated as of 1922: General Secretaries :1903: Theodor Bömelburg :1913: Fritz Paeplow :1919: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Union Federation
A global union federation (GUF) is an international federation of national trade unions organizing in specific industry sectors or occupational groups. Historically, such federations in the social democratic tradition described as international trade secretariats (ITS),. while those in the Christian democratic tradition described themselves as international trade federations. Equivalent sectoral bodies linked to the World Federation of Trade Unions described themselves as Trade Union Internationals. Many unions are members of one or more global union federations, relevant to the sectors where they have their members. Individual unions may also be affiliated to a national trade union centre, which in turn can be affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) or the WFTU. Current federations Former secretariats See also *Global Unions Global Unions or Council of Global Unions is a website, which is jointly owned and managed by the International Trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Union Of Building Workers
The Norwegian Union of Building Industry Workers ( no, Norsk Bygningsindustriarbeiderforbund, NBIAF) was a trade union in Norway, organized under the national Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. It was founded in 1923 as the Norwegian Union of Building Workers ( no, Norsk Bygningsarbeiderforbund). It was a merger between the Norwegian Union of Painters, the Wood Workers' Union of Norway, and relevant sections of the Norwegian Union of General Workers. When it was merged with Norwegian Union of Planing Workers (established 1911) in 1949, it changed its name to the Norwegian Union of Building Industry Workers. In 1961 it absorbed Norwegian Union of Stone Industry Workers (established 1896) and in 1976 it absorbed Norwegian Union of Bricklayers. Chairmen include Elias Volan (1923–1927), Jens Tangen (1935–1940). Ingvald B. Aase served as secretary in 1930 and became chairman in 1933. In 1988 it was merged with the Garment Workers' Union, the Norwegian Union of Iron and Metal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Unions Established In 1903
Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct exchange of goods and services for other goods and services, i.e. trading things without the use of money. Modern traders generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. The invention of money (and letter of credit, paper money, and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Trade between two traders is called bilateral trade, while trade involving more than two traders is called multilateral trade. In one modern view, trade exists due to specialization and the division of labour, a predominant form of economic activity in which individuals and groups concentrate on a small aspect of production, but use their output in trades for other products and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaap Van Achterbergh
Jacob Willem van Achterbergh (15 November 1882 – 15 September 1948) was a Dutch trade union leader. Born in Amersfoort, Achterbergh was a founding member of the Central Union of Building Workers. In 1920, it merged into the new General Dutch Construction Union, and he became the union's vice president. In 1933, he was elected as the general secretary of the International Federation of Building Workers. He organised a merger which formed the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW), and became its first general secretary. On the outbreak of World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ..., Achterbergh travelled to Copenhagen to safeguard the federation's assets. During the war, he was arrested by the Nazi occupiers, but he survived the wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Paeplow
Friedrich Paeplow (17 May 1860 – 19 January 1934) was a German trade unionist and politician. Born in Zirkow, Paeplow completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, and moved to Chemnitz in his journeyman years. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and in 1890 was elected as its Chemnitz chair. In 1892, he became the editor of the local SPD newspaper, the ''Chemnitzer Beobachter'', and also became a shop steward for the Central Union of Masons. In 1896, Paeplow moved to Hamburg, where he became the editor of ''Grundstein'', the masons' union's national newspaper. From 1899, he served on the executive of the General Commission of German Trade Unions, although he stood down in 1902, when the federation's headquarters moved to Berlin. He remained politically active, and in 1904 was elected to Hamburg City Council. In 1908, Paeplow became the general secretary of the masons' union, and office manager for its president, Theodor Bömelburg. He remained in pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Bömelburg
Theodor Bömelburg (27 September 1862 – 17 October 1912) was a German trade unionist and politician. Bömelburg was born in Westönnen, now part of Werl, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and plasterer, and in 1886 he was a founder of the builders' union in Bochum. By 1888, he was living in Hamburg, where he became the chair of the local Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The following year, he became an official of the city's local builders' union. In 1891, he led it into a merger with other local unions, forming the national Central Union of Masons. Bömelburg was appointed to the executive of the masons' union in 1893, and in 1894 won election as its president. That year, he was also elected as president of the Hamburg Trades Council, serving for a single year-long term. He became prominent in the General Commission of German Trade Unions, co-chairing its conferences from 1899 until 1908. In 1903, he was elected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Workers' Union Of Yugoslavia
The General Workers' Union of Yugoslavia ( sh, Opšteg radničkog saveza, ORS) was a general union in Yugoslavia. The union was founded in 1917, when trade union activity was re-legalised in Yugoslavia. In its early years, it led significant industrial actions, including a general strike in 1919. The leadership of the Yugoslav Social-Democratic Party Yugoslav Social-Democratic Party ( sl, Jugoslovanska socialdemokratska stranka, hr, Jugoslavenska socijaldemokratska stranka) or JSDS was a socialist political party in Slovenia and Istria during the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of ... became concerned about communist activity in the union, and so organised the Cartel of Professional Organisations, which separated the industries with the most militant workers from the main body of the ORS.{{cite book , last1=Janjatović , first1=Bosiljka , title=Sindikalni pokret u Jugoslaviji do 1941. Godine. , publisher=Sindikalna Skola Hrvatske , url=http://radnici.ba/wp-content/u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Federation Of Building Trades Operatives
The National Federation of Building Trades Operatives (NFBTO) was a trade union federation in the United Kingdom, consisting of unions with members in construction and related industries. History In 1914, a group of workers attempted to form the Building Workers' Trade Union, a single industrial union to cover the entire construction industry. The existing unions in the industry opposed this, and held a conference in London in February 1915, to discuss their response. They decided to set up the National Associated Building Trades Council (NABTC). This focused on considering what industrial policies would be desirable after World War I was concluded. The council's members remained autonomous in all matters and were free to leave at will, but it attracted affiliations from most relevant unions:Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, ''Historical Directory of British Trade Unions'', vol.3, pp.40-41 * Amalgamated Slaters', Tilers' and Roofing Operatives' Society * Amalgamated Society of Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Construction Workers' Union
The Swiss Construction Workers' Union (german: Schweizerische Bauarbeiterverband, SBAV) was a trade union representing workers in the construction industry in Switzerland. Although many of the various small unions of building workers in Switzerland were affiliated to the Swiss Trade Union Federation, the stronger unions were concerned about allying with the weaker ones, and they could not agree on the best way to unionise Italian workers in the industry. The SBAV was founded in 1904, but remained very small. In 1920, the SBAV was joined by the Stone and Clay Workers' Union merged with the Central Union of Carvers, the Central Union of Painters and Plasterers, and the Union of Bricklayers and Labourers. Augusto Vuattolo, former leader of the bricklayers, became the president of the SBAV. Two years later, it merged with the Swiss Woodworkers' Union to form the Swiss Construction and Woodworkers' Union The Union of Construction and Wood (german: Gewerkschaft Bau und Holz, GBH; fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Dutch Construction Union
The General Dutch Construction Union ( nl, Algemeen Nederlandsche Bond van Bouwbedrijfsbond, ANB) was a trade union representing workers in the construction industry in the Netherlands. The union was founded on 11 January 1920, when the General Dutch Carpenters' Union merged with the Central Union of Building Workers, establishing the General Dutch Building Workers' Union. On formation, it had 21,678 members. Like both its forerunners, it affiliated to the Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions (NVV). In 1941, the Dutch Painters' Assistants' Union and the General Dutch Plasterers' Union both merged in. In 1951, the NVV reorganised its affiliates, to form industrial union Industrial unionism is a trade union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union, regardless of skill or trade, thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in ...s. The union began representing office workers in the constru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Union Of Masons
The Central Union of Masons (german: Zentralverband der Maurer) was a trade union representing bricklayers in Germany. Regular conferences of masons were held in Germany in the 1880s. With the repeal of the Anti-Socialist Laws, it was possible to form legal trade unions, and at the 8th Congress of Masons, in Gotha, in May 1891, the Central Union of Masons was established. It adopted ''Der Grundstein'' as its journal. The union gradually built up international contacts in the late 19th-century. In 1903, it called a conference in Berlin, to formalise these relationships by establishing the International Federation of Building Workers. The union affiliated to the General Commission of German Trade Unions, and by 1904, it was the second largest in Germany, with 128,850 members. By 1910, this had risen slightly, to 169,645. At the start of 1911, it merged with the Central Union of Construction Workers, to form the German Construction Workers' Union. Presidents :1891: Adolf Damm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Construction Workers' Union
The German Construction Workers' Union (german: Deutscher Bauarbeiter-Verband, DBV) was a trade union representing building workers in Germany. The union was founded on 1 January 1911, when the Central Union of Masons merged with the Central Union of Construction Workers, the two bringing together 235,217 members. The Central Union of Plasterers joined at the start of 1912. The union affiliated to the General Commission of German Trade Unions, and in 1919 became a founding affiliate of the General German Trade Union Confederation. It was also the leading union in the International Federation of Building Workers. On 1 January 1923, the union merged with the Central Union of Glaziers and the Central Union of Potters, to form the German Union of Building Trades. Presidents :1911: Theodor Bömelburg :1913: Fritz Paeplow Friedrich Paeplow (17 May 1860 – 19 January 1934) was a German trade unionist and politician. Born in Zirkow, Paeplow completed an apprenticeship as a bric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
