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Liga Geral Dos Trabalhadores De Angola
''Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola'' ('General League of Angolan Workers', abbreviated LGTA) was an Angolan trade union organization in exile. Being based amongst Angolan refugees in neighbouring Congo-Kinshasa, LGTA was linked to the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA). During the 1960s, LGTA was the largest Angolan trade union outfit.Mielke, Siegfried. Internationales Gewerkschaftshandbuch'. Opladen: Laske + Budrich, 1983. pp. 204-205 Founding LGTA was launched in order to counter the pro- MPLA exile trade union UNTA. The new organization was based in Leopoldville/Kinshasa (Congo). In its initial phase, LGTA received support from the Congolese trade union centre FGTK. International affiliations LGTA joined the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and AFRO (the regional ICFTU organization) in 1961. LGTA had around 1,500 members in the mid-1960s.United States. Labor Digests on Countries in Africa'. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Lab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ICFTU
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was an international trade union. It came into being on 7 December 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and was dissolved on 31 October 2006 when it merged with the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) to form the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Prior to being dissolved, the ICFTU had a membership of 157 million members in 225 affiliated organisations in 148 countries and territories. History In 1949, early in the Cold War, alleging Communist domination of the WFTU's central institutions, a large number of non-communist national trade union federations (including the U.S. AFL–CIO, the British TUC, the French FO, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries. From the 1950s the ICFTU actively recruited new members from the developing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
