The Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA-CSA) is the regional organization of the

International Trade Union Confederation The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); german: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund (IGB), link=no; es, Confederación Sindical Internacional (CSI), link=no. is the world's largest trade union federation. History The federation w ...

for

the Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with th ...

History

The confederation was formed in March 2008 when the

ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers The ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers ( es, Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores, ORIT) was the regional organization of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) for the Americas. The fede ...

merged with the

Latin American Confederation of Workers The Latin American Confederation of Workers ( es, Central Latinoamericana de Trabajadores, CLAT), was the World Confederation of Labour's (WCL) regional organization for Latin America and the Caribbean. The WCL merged with the International Confed ...

. The organization has 48 affiliated organizations, in 21 countries, representing 55 million workers.

Leadership

General Secretaries

:2008: Víctor Báez :2018: Rafael Freire Neto

Presidents

:2008: Linda Chavez-Thompson :2012: Hassan Yussuff :2021: Fred Redmond

References

{{Reflist International organizations based in the Americas Trade unions established in 2008 Organizations based in Montevideo