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UITBB
The Trade Union International of Building, Wood, Building Materials and Allied Industries, also known as the Trade Union International of Construction, Wood, Building Materials and Allied Industries, more commonly known by its French acronym UITBB (''Union internationale des syndicats des travailleurs du bâtiment, du bois et des matériaux de construction'') is a trade union international affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions. History The UITBB was founded at a conference in Milan in 14–16 July 1949. Organization The highest organization is the Conference which meets every 4 years. Between conferences, the union is run by an administrative committee. The committee elections the president, vice-presidents, secretary general and secretaries, who constitute the executive bureau. The secretariat is made up of the secretary general and secretaries who ran the day-to-day activities of the organization. The organisation's headquarters was in Helsinki from at leas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Union International
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade union, trade unions established on October 3, 1945. Founded in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the organization built on the pre-war legacy of the International Federation of Trade Unions as a single structure for trade unions world-wide, following the World Trade Union Conference#Committee, World Trade Union Conference in London, United Kingdom. With the emergence of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the WFTU splintered, with most trade unions from the Western bloc, Western-aligned countries leaving and creating the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) in 1949. Throughout the Cold War, membership of the WFTU was made up predominantly of trade unions from the Eastern Bloc, Soviet-aligned and Non-Aligned Movement, non-aligned countries. However, there were notable exceptions to this, such as the Yugoslav and Chinese unions, which departed following the Tito–Stalin s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
