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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]
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.
The ICFTU merged with the World Confederation of Labor in 2006, and in 2008, ORIT merged with the WCL's former regional organisation for the Americas, the Latin American Confederation of Workers, to form the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas.
The National Workers' Union (NWU) is a trade union in Guyana. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation. References. ICTUR; ...