What Is the WFTU?
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) was founded in Paris on October 3, 1945. It is the oldest international trade union organization and founder of the International Labor Organization (ILO).
It follows the line of the class-oriented trade union movement and it struggles against capitalism and imperialism for a society without exploitation of man of man.
Currently it has 80 million members in 120 countries. Its structure, its organization, its leadership consists of:
- World Trade Union Congress
- Presidential Council
- Secretariat
From 1945 until 1953 it was based in Paris, France. In 1953-1956 the headquarters were in Vienna, Austria. In 1956-2005 the headquarters were in Prague, Czechoslovakia. From January 2006 until today it is headquartered in Athens, Greece.
It has a regional office in each continent and also a Trade Union International (TUI) in all major sectors.
Throughout its course so far, the WFTU played a main central role in the struggles against apartheid, against racism, the struggle against colonialism, against the policy of the governments of U.S., NATO, Israel and its allies; against the barbarism of capitalism. It was at the forefront in the conquest of all labor and union rights.
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