The Luxembourg Workers' Union ( lb, Lëtzebuerger Arbechter-Verband, LAV) was a general union in

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

. The union was founded in 1920, as the Luxembourg Mining and Metalworkers' Union. This was a merger of the Luxembourg Miners' and Ironworkers' Union with the Luxembourg Metalworkers' Union, both of which had been established in 1916. In 1921, many Catholic trade unionists left the new union, to form a new union affiliated to the

Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions The Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions ( lb, Lëtzebuerger Chrëschtleche Gewerkschaftsbond, french: Confédération Luxembourgeoise des Syndicats Chrétiens), abbreviated to LCGB, is a Luxembourgish trade union. As the LCGB abides ...

(LCGB).{{cite book , title=Trade Unions of the World , date=2005 , publisher=John Harper Publishing , location=London , isbn=0954381157 , pages=204–205 , edition=6 The union led a major strike in March 1921, against redundancies, but this was unsuccessful, and also led to the temporary banning of factory councils. From 1924, it participated in the statutory Chamber of Labour. In 1936, it worked with the LCGB to organise a major strike in support of improved pay and collective bargaining. In 1944, the union became the LAV. The following year, the union's left wing split away, to form the

Free Luxembourger Workers' Union The Free Luxembourger Workers' Union ( lb, Freie Lëtzebuerger Arbechterverband, abbreviated 'FLA') was a national trade union centre in Luxembourg, active between 1945 and 1965. Founding FLA was founded in 1945, after a split in the Luxembourg W ...

. This dissolved in 1966, and many of its members then rejoined the LAV. In 1977, it merged with the General Federation of Teachers, to form the

Independent Luxembourg Trade Union Confederation The Independent Luxembourg Trade Union Confederation (Luxembourgish: ''Onofhängege Gewerkschaftsbond Lëtzebuerg'', German: ''Unabhängiger Gewerkschaftsbund Luxemburg''), also OGBL or OGB-L, is a Luxembourgish general union. History The union wa ...

Presidents

:1938:

Nicolas Biever Nicolas "Nic" Biever (22 May 1894 – 15 July 1965) was a Luxembourgian politician. Nic Biever worked in ARBED's factory in Dudelange. In February 1919, he became secretary of the Dudelange section of the trade union Luxembourg Mining and Meta ...

: Antoine Krier :1965:

Benny Berg Bernard 'Benny' Berg (14 September 1931 – 21 February 2019) was a Luxembourgish politician and trade unionist. In the 1970s, Berg was a leading member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, sitting in the Chamber of Deputies and the comm ...

:1970:

Mathias Hinterscheid Mathias Hinterscheid (26 January 1931 – 27 December 2016) was a Luxembourg trade unionist. Born in Dudelange, Hinterscheid attended the Athanaeum in Luxembourg City. He became a steelworker at Arbed and joined the Luxembourg Workers' Union ...

:1976: Antoine Weiss

References

Trade unions in Luxembourg General unions Trade unions established in 1920 Trade unions disestablished in 1977