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Trade Union Congress Of Nigeria
The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUCN) was a national trade union federation in Nigeria. History The federation was established in 1942, as the Federated Trade Union, becoming the TUCN the following year. It was the first federation to receive government approval or to operate on a national basis. In 1949, a group led by Michael Imoudu split away to form the Nigerian National Federation of Labour, but the two reunited in 1950 as the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). The NLC soon ceased to operate, but was re-established in 1953 by Imoudu, as the All Nigeria Trade Union Federation. The National Council of Trade Unions split away in 1957, but rejoined in 1959, with the merged union re-adopting the TUCN name. In 1960, Imoudu travelled to the Soviet Union and to China without the approval of the federation, and was suspended. The federation split over the question of whether to affiliate to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) or to the World Federation of ...
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National Trade Union Federation
A national trade union center (or national center or central) is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a country. Nearly every country in the world has a national trade union center, and many have more than one. In some regions, such as the Nordic countries, different centers exist on a sectoral basis, for example for blue collar workers and professionals. Among the larger national centers in the world are the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Change to Win Federation in the USA; the Canadian Labour Congress; the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Britain; the Irish Congress of Trade Unions; the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU); the Congress of South African Trade Unions; the Dutch FNV; the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish LO; the German DGB; the French CGT and CFDT; the Indian BMS, INTUC, AITUC and HMS; the Italian CISL, CGIL and UIL; the Spanish CCOO, CNT, CGT and USO; the Czech ČMKOS; the Japan Trade Union C ...
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Michael Imoudu
Michael Athokhamien Omnibus Imoudu was a Nigerian labour union leader. Early life and education Imoudu was born in 1902, in Afemai division of Edo State. His father was a soldier in the West African Frontier Force and had served in East Africa and in The Gambia. After the death of his parents in 1922, Imoudu lived and worked for a relative who was a linesman on the railways. Due to the job of the relative, he traveled to various cities in the Mid-West and in the East, during his sojourn, he learned the Igbo language. He attended several schools and finished his elementary education at Agbor Government School in 1927. He traveled to Lagos in 1928 and secured work a year later as a daily labourer, he also worked as a linesman in the Post and Telegraph Department before joining the railways as an apprentice turner. Career as labour leader Imoudu started labour union activities as a member of the Railway Workers Union (RWU), the union was to become one of the most militant unions i ...
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International Confederation Of Free Trade Unions
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 ...
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World Federation Of Trade Unions
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade unions established in 1945. Founded in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the organization built on the pre-war legacy of the International Federation of Trade Unions as a single structure for trade unions world-wide. With the emergence of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the WFTU splintered, with most trade unions from the Western-aligned countries leaving and creating the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) in 1949. Throughout the Cold War, membership of the WFTU was made up predominantly of trade unions from the Soviet-aligned and non-aligned countries. However, there were notable exceptions to this, such as the Yugoslav and Chinese unions, which departed following the Tito-Stalin and Sino-Soviet splits, respectively, or the French CGT and Italian CGIL unions, who were members. With the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the WFTU los ...
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Nigeria Trade Union Congress
The Nigeria Trade Union Congress (NTUC) was a national trade union federation in Nigeria. History The union was founded in 1960, as a split from the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUCN) by members who wished to align with the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). It was led by former TUCN president Michael Imoudu. In 1962, the federation merged with the TUCN, to form the United Labour Congress (ULC), but after the new organisation voted to affiliate to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the NTUC withdrew. It formed Independent United Labour Congress (IULC), with Imoudu as president and Amaefulo Ikoro as general secretary. The government chose to only recognise the ULC, and the IULC found itself in disputes over the use of funds. Ibrahim Nock and his supporters split away at the end of 1962 to form the Northern Federation of Labour, while early in 1963, Wahab Goodluck and S. U. Bassey took over the leadership of the IULC, which they renamed as the NTUC. ...
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United Labour Congress
The United Labour Congress (ULC) was a national trade union federation in Nigeria. History The federation was established in 1962, when the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria merged with the Nigeria Trade Union Congress (NTUC). The federation decided not to align with any particular political party, but to affiliate to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. This led the NTUC to withdraw. The federation was led by president Alhaji Haroun Popoola Adebola and general secretary L. L. Borha. It led the formation of the Joint Action Committee, which campaigned for wage increases for labourers. The selection of delegates to the International Labour Organization in 1962 proved a point of conflict, with N. Anunobi and his supporters splitting away to form the Nigeria Workers' Council (NWC). In 1967, affiliated unions based in Biafra split to form the Biafran Trade Union Confederation. In 1978, the federation merged with the NTUC, the NWC and the Labour Unity Front, to ...
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Gogo Chu Nzeribe
Gogo Chu Nzeribe was a Nigerian trade unionist and a leader of the nation's communist movement during the drive towards independence in the 1950s. He was the secretary general of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, which at the time was led by president Michael Imoudu. Nzeribe was murdered in 1967 by troops loyal to the federal side during the crisis of the 1960s. Prior to his death, he was arrested and detained at Dodan Barracks by the Yakubu Gowon regime. He had a daughter with Nigerian novelist, Flora Nwapa. Early life Nzeribe was born into a well-to-do family and attended King's College, Lagos. He turned to trade unionism as a result his interest in Nigeria's struggle for independence. He started out organizing student and workers rallies against the colonial Colonial or The Colonial may refer to: * Colonial, of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony or colony (biology) Architecture * American colonial architecture * French Colonial * Spanish Colonial architecture ...
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Trade Unions In Nigeria
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 ...
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Trade Unions Established In 1942
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 ...
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