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The Guyana Trades Union Congress is a national trade union center in Guyana. It was founded in 1941 as the British Guiana Trades Union Council . It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation .
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union (GAWU) is the largest trade union in Guyana.It was founded in 1946 as the Guiana Industrial Workers' Union.After failing in the 1950s it was reformed as the Guyana Sugar Workers' Union in 1961 but changed its name to Guyana Agricultural Workers' Union in 1962 before becoming the GAWU later that decade.
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The BGLU was founded in 1919, emerging as a labour union amongst black dockworkers. Led by Hubert Critchlow. It soon expanded into a colony-wide labour movement. [2] BGLU was not the first trade union in the Caribbean, but was the first to be legally registered. [3] By 1928 the organization claimed to have 1,073 members, of whom 341 were women. [4]
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The Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) is a regional trade union federation. It represents 500,000 members in 33 affiliated unions across 17 Caribbean nations.. The federation represents trade union concerns to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), as well as the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) 34,000 (FITUG) 16,000 (GTUC) Jamaica Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions Trinidad and Tobago Federation of Independent Trade Unions and Non-Governmental Organisations (FITUN) National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago (NATUC) 80,000 (NATUC) Mexico
The BGLU is officially the first trade union in the Caribbean. In 1945 he attended the World Trade Union Conference as President of the British Guiana Trades Union Council. [2] Often referred to as 'The father of Trade Unions', Critchlow was the first man in British Guiana to formalize labor negotiations. He died in Georgetown in 1958.