The Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers was a

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History

The TUI was founded at a conference in

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in December 1949. Its original name was the Trade Union International of Agricultural and Forestry Workers. In 1997 the Trade Union International of Agroalimentary, Food, Commerce, Textile & Allied Industries was formed by the merger of the Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers, Trade Union International of Food, Tobacco, Hotel and Allied Industries Workers, Trade Union International of Workers in Commerce, Trade Union International of Textile, Leather and Fur Workers Unions.

Organization

By 1985 the TUI had branch commissions representing workers in agriculture, plantations, the forestry industry and peasant workers. In 1955 the headquarters of the organization was located at 19 Via Boncampagni,

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. In 1985 its address was reported as Opletalova 57

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. However, by 1989 it had moved to Serpoukhovkaia 44, 113093

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were it stayed until at least 1991.

Conferences

*1st Warsaw, December 1949 - attended by delegates from the

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, Czechoslovakia,

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and People's Republic of Romania, Romania representing 6.57 million members. Unions in Second Brazilian Republic, Brazil, People's Republic of Albania, Albania, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea and French Tunisia, Tunisia also affiliated. *2nd, 1951 - attended by 205 delegates and observers (66 from Latin America) representing 146 national and regional organizations. *7th Moscow, 1975 *9th Warsaw, October 3–6, 1983 - 110 organizations from 71 countries (members and observers) representing 73 million workers attended.

Members

The following groups were affiliated with the TUI in 1978.Coldrick and Jones pp.173-4 * - Union Professionelle des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture, et des Forets * - União dos Trabalhadores Angolanos * - Union de Productores Agropecuarios de Republica Argentina * - Chittagong Tea Garden Workers Union * - Fédération Nationale des Syndicats des Travailleurs de la Production Vegetale et Animale de Benin * - Unión Nacional de Campesinos * - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture et des Industrie Alimentaire * - Confederación Nacional Campesina e Indigena de Chile - RANQUIL * - National Committee of the Chinese Agricultural, Forestry and Water Conservancy Workers' Union * - FENSA * - Fédération Syndicale des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture et des Forets - FESYTRAF * - Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de Plantaciones * - Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Forestales * - Cyprus Agricultural, Forestry General Workers' Trade Union * - Fédération des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture * - Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios * - Asociación de Trabajadores Agropecuarios de El Salvador - ATACES * - Federation of Agricultural and Forestry Workers - CGT (France), CGT ** - Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe ** - CGT- Reunion * - Union of Land, Food and Forests * - General Agricultural Workers' Union of the Trade Union Congress of Ghana, Trade Union Congress * - Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union * - Fédération des Travailleurs Agricoles et Forestiers * - Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union * - All India Agricultural Workers Union * - General Union of Agricultural Workers * - National Federation of Italian Agricultural Labourers and Employees * - General Union of Agricultural Forestry and Plantation Workers of Jordan * - Union des Travailleurs Agricoles de Corree * - Fedération des Syndicats des Travailleurs de Madagascar - FISEMA * - Agricultural Workers Union * - Central Independiente de Oberos Agricolas y Campesinos de Mexico * - Comite Central du Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture * - Nepal Beekeepers' Association * - Confederación de Campesinos y de Trabajodores de Nicaragua * - Federation of Agricultural Workers' Union of Nigeria * - General Union of Palestinian Peasants * - Fedération des Syndicats des Travailleurs Agricoles * - Union des Syndicats des Enterprises et Institutes Agricoles * - Transport Agricultural and General Workers' Union * - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture * - United Plantation Workers' Union * - Union Generale des Paysans * - SYNASCOT * - Syndicat National de Travaileurs de Forets de Vietnam * - Trade Union of Agricultural Workers

Leadership

General Secretaries

:1949: Ilio Bosi :1960: Vincenzo Galetti :1964: Umberto Fornari :1968: Claude Billault :1980: Gerard Laugier :1980s: René Digne :1980s: André Hemmerle

Presidents

:1949: Suleiman Tjugito :1966: Giaochino Chisio :Andreas Kyriakou

References

{{Authority control Trade Unions Internationals, Agricultural Trade unions established in 1949 Trade unions disestablished in 1997 Organizations based in Prague 1949 establishments in Poland Agriculture and forestry trade unions Defunct transnational trade unions Timber industry trade unions