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John Vanderveken
John Vanderveken (born 4 February 1930) is a Belgian former trade union leader. Life Born in Antwerp, Vanderveken's family were involved in trade unionism, and were friendly with Omer Becu. They were also involved in the Belgian Resistance during World War II. In 1951, Vanderveken began working for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), on the recommendation of Becu. From 1956, he took time out to study at Ghent University, also working for the American labour attache. Vanderveken returned to the ICFTU in 1960, working in the Economic and Social Policy Department, then in the organisation's Geneva office. He proved successful, and in 1974 won election as the confederation's assistant general secretary. In 1982, he was made acting general secretary of the ICFTU, and was elected to the post on a permanent basis in 1983. He retired in 1992, becoming an adviser to the Education International Education International (EI) is a global union federation (GU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian People
Belgians ( nl, Belgen; french: Belges; german: Belgier) are people identified with the Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium, a federation, federal state in Western Europe. As Belgium is a multinational state, this connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural rather than ethnic. The majority of Belgians, however, belong to two distinct ethnic groups or ''communities'' ( nl, gemeenschap, links=no; french: communauté, links=no) native to the country, i.e. its historical regions: Flemings in Flanders, who speak Dutch language, Dutch; and Walloons in Wallonia, who speak French language, French or Walloon language, Walloon. There is also a substantial Belgian diaspora, which has settled primarily in the Belgian Americans, United States, Belgian Canadians, Canada, France, and the Netherlands. Etymology The Belgian Revolution, 1830 revolution led to the establishment of an independent country under a Provisional Government of Belgium, provisional government and a national Congr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heribert Maier
Heribert Maier (7 February 1932 – 6 November 2007) was an Austrian trade union leader. Born in Graz, Maier studied at the local gymnasium and then the University of Vienna, from which he obtained a doctorate in economics. Maier began working for the Austrian Trade Union Federation in 1955, then in 1958 moved to Brussels to work for the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). In 1972, he was appointed as assistant general secretary of the ICFTU, but he left the following year to become general secretary of the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical and Technical Employees (FIET). As leader of FIET, Maier focused on recruiting unions and supporting workers' struggles in Latin America, Asia and Africa. He became a worker representative at the International Labour Organization (ILO), jointly drafting its Tripartite Declaration on Multinationals in 1977, and championing the Health and Safety in Mines Convention. In 1989, Maier left FIET to become de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Secretaries Of The International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/77489?rskey=dCKrg4&result=1 (accessed May 11, 2021) The term ''general'' is used in two ways: as the generic title for all grades of general officer and as a specific rank. It originates in the Tudor period, 16th century, as a shortening of ''captain general'', which rank was taken from Middle French ''capitaine général''. The adjective ''general'' had been affixed to officer designations since the late Middle Ages, late medieval period to indicate relative superiority or an extended jurisdiction. Today, the title of ''general'' is known in some countries as a four-star rank. However, different countries use di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgian Trade Unionists
Belgian may refer to: * Something of, or related to, Belgium * Belgians, people from Belgium or of Belgian descent * Languages of Belgium, languages spoken in Belgium, such as Dutch, French, and German * Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language formerly spoken in Gallia Belgica * Belgian Dutch or Flemish, a variant of Dutch *Belgian French, a variant of French * Belgian horse (other), various breeds of horse * Belgian waffle, in culinary contexts * SS ''Belgian'', a cargo ship in service with F Leyland & Co Ltd from 1919 to 1934 *''The Belgian ''The Belgian'' is a 1917 American silent film directed by Sidney Olcott and produced by Sidney Olcott Players with Valentine Grant and Walker Whiteside in the leading roles. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot As descr ...'', a 1917 American silent film See also * * Belgica (other) * Belgic (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1930 Births
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Kersten (trade Unionist)
Otto Kersten (1928 – 1982) was a German trade union official. Born in Altjessnitz, Kersten joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and a trade union in 1946. He then studied economics at the University of Rostock and in East Berlin. The SPD in East Germany was merged into the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, but Kersten remained part of a social democratic opposition group in the party. In 1953, he was sentenced to fifteen years hard labour for this activity, although he was released after three years. He then moved to Frankfurt in West Germany, and found work with the Bundesbank. Kersten retained his interest in trade unionism, and in 1960 he began working for the European Trade Union Secretariat, then in 1965 moved to the German Trade Union Confederation, where he reorganised the international department. He became the secretary of the department, and also the chair of the confederation's International and European Committee. In 1972, he was elected as gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Friso
Enzo Friso (born 1927) is an Italian former trade union leader. Born in Padua, Friso became a metal worker and, in 1945, when trade unions were re-legalised, he joined the Italian General Confederation of Labour. In 1954, he began working full-time for the union as its secretary for the Aosta Valley, then in 1960 became its provincial secretary for Pavia. He represented the union at the 1962 Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), and soon afterwards began working for the ICFTU as director of its Beirut office. In 1968, he was transferred to Jakarta, then Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ... in 1970. This was the headquarters of the confederation, and Friso became its lead on unions in Latin America. In 1984, Friso was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education International
Education International (EI) is a global union federation (GUF) of teachers' trade unions consisting of 401 member organizations in 172 countries and territories that represents over 30 million education personnel from pre-school through university. It is one of the world's largest sectoral global union federations. History Prior to the 1950s, teacher and other education unions played little role in international trade union federations. In 1912, the International Committee of National Federations of Teachers in Public Secondary Schools was established in Belgium. Internationally, it was known as FIPESO, an acronym derived from its French name: The Federation Internationale des Professeurs de l'Enseignement Secondaire Officiel. In 1923, the National Education Association (NEA) founded the World Federation of Education Associations (WFEA) in San Francisco. Then in 1926, the International Federation of Teachers' Associations (IFTA) was formed. The same year, the International T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,Statistics Belgium; ''Loop van de bevolking per gemeente'' (Excel file) Population of all municipalities in Belgium, . Retrieved 1 November 2017. it is the most populous municipality in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of around 1,200,000 people, it is the second-largest metrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city of Geneva () had a population 201,818 in 2019 (Jan. estimate) within its small municipal territory of , but the Canton of Geneva (the city and its closest Swiss suburbs and exurbs) had a population of 499,480 (Jan. 2019 estimate) over , and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French Departments of France, departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over ,As of 2020, the Eurostat-defined Functional Urban Area of Geneva was made up of 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghent University
Ghent University ( nl, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when the region was incorporated into the United Kingdom of the Netherlands after the fall of First French Empire. In that same year, he founded two other universities for the southern provinces as well, alongside Ghent University: University of Liège and State University of Leuven. After the Belgian revolution of 1830, the newly formed Belgian state began to administer Ghent University. In 1930, UGent became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium. Previously, French (and, even earlier, Latin) had been the standard academic language in what was ''Université de Gand''. In 1991, it was granted major autonomy and changed its name accordingly from ''State University of Ghent'' ( nl, Rijksuniversiteit Gent, abbreviated as ''RUG'') to its c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
