The International Federation of Free Teachers' Unions (IFFTU) was a global union federation of trade unions representing teachers.

History

The International Federation of Teachers' Trade Unions was founded after World War II, and affiliated to the

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 o ...

(WFTU). When the large majority of Western trade unions left the WFTU, the teachers' trade secretariat was the only one to remain affiliated to the WFTU. To fill this gap, the new

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(ICFTU) held a meeting in Paris in 1951 to found a rival international secretariat, the "International Federation of Free Teachers' Unions". By 1960, the secretariat had 12 affiliates in 11 countries, with a total of 229,500 members, and continued to grow rapidly. At the end of 1992, it merged with the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession, to form

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 universi ...

Affiliates

In 1960, the following unions were affiliated to the federation:

Leadership

General Secretaries

:1951: Maurice van de Moortel :1965: Andre Braconier :1981: Fred van Leeuwen

Presidents

:1951: Irvin Kuenzli :1956: Pierre Reymond-Sauvin :1965: Heinrich Roden :1972: Erich Frister :1981: Albert Shanker

References

{{Authority control Global union federations Education trade unions Trade unions established in 1951 Trade unions disestablished in 1992