The ''Confédération générale aéfienne du travail'' (CGAT) was a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

centre in

French Equatorial Africa French Equatorial Africa (, or AEF) was a federation of French colonial territories in Equatorial Africa which consisted of Gabon, French Congo, Ubangi-Shari, and Chad. It existed from 1910 to 1958 and its administration was based in Brazzav ...

. CGAT was founded in April 1957 by the Confédération générale du travail du Kamerun (the erstwhile

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

ian branch of the

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

Confédération générale du travail The General Confederation of Labour (, , CGT) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It is the largest in terms of votes in the Labour C ...

, which had broken away from CGT in December 1956) and CGT branches in French Equatorial Africa. CGAT was based in

Brazzaville Brazzaville () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo. Administratively, it is a Departments of the Republic of the Congo, department and a Communes of the Republic of the Congo, commune. Constituting t ...

.Agyeman, Opoku.
The Failure of Grassroots Pan-Africanism: The Case of the All-African Trade Union Federation
'. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2003. pp. xviii, 121 CGAT was affiliated to the

World Federation of Trade Unions 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 Int ...

. Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice.
Africa, the Politics of Unity; An Analysis of a Contemporary Social Movement
'. New York: Random House, 1967. p. 256

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Confederation Generale Aefienne Du Travail World Federation of Trade Unions Trade unions in French Equatorial Africa 1957 establishments in French Equatorial Africa Trade unions established in 1957