The Coordination Syndicale Haïtienne (CSH) was the primary labor federation that backed the 2004 ousting of
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
's democratically elected government. Starting in the late 1990s they received financial and technical aid from the
ILO
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and ol ...
,
ICFTU
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was an international trade union. It came into being on 7 December 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and was dissolved on 31 October 2006 when ...
, and
ORIT Orit is a Hebrew language feminine given name ().
Notable people with this given name include:
*Orit Gadiesh
*Orit Noked
*Orit Strook
*Orit Wolf
*Orit Adato
*Orit Rozin
*Orit Bar-On
*Orit Ishay
*Orit Zuaretz
*Orit Galili-Zucker
Other uses
* The Be ...
.
Fritz Charles was the general secretary of CSH during this time. Following the 2004
coup another labor organization that agitated for the government to leave the country, the
Batay Ouvriye, was found to be receiving massive funding/support from foreign agencies (
AFL-CIOs Solidarity Center).
References
* by Jeb Sprague, Labor Notes, retrieved October 15, 2006
Trade unions in Haiti
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