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ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers

Field	Value
name	ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers
location_country	The Americas
affiliation	ICFTU
members	50 million in 29 countries
native_name	Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores
image	ICFTU_Inter_American_Regional_Organisation_of_Workers_logo.gif
founded	1951
dissolved	March 2008
merged	Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
headquarters	São Paulo, Brazil
website

The ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers (, ORIT) was the regional organization of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) for the Americas.

The federation was formed in 1951, and described its objective as being to work for independent, autonomous, democratic unions throughout the Americas. 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.

As of 2005, the organization had 65 affiliated or fraternal organizations, in 29 countries, representing 50 million workers.

Member TUCs

The following national organizations were affiliated with ORIT in 2005:

Argentina
- Confederación General del Trabajo de la República Argentina
Barbados
- Barbados Workers' Union
Belize
- National Trade Union Congress of Belize (Fraternal, not affiliated)
Brazil
- Central Única dos Trabalhadores
- Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores
Canada
- Canadian Labour Congress
- Confédération des syndicats nationaux
Chile
- Central Unitaria de Trabajadores
Colombia
- Confederación de Trabajadores de Colombia
- Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Colombia (Frat.)
Costa Rica
- Confederación de Trabajadores Rerum Novarum
Dominica
- Waterfront and Allied Workers' Union
Dominican Republic
- Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores Dominicana
- Confederación de Trabajadores Unitaria
Ecuador
- Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones
El Salvador
- Central de Trabajadores Democráticos
- Unión Nacional de Trabajadores Campesinos (Frat.)
Guatemala
- Confederación de Unidad Sindical de Guatemala
- Unidad Sindical de Trabajadores de Guatemala (Frat.)
Central de Trabajadores del Campo (Frat.)
Guyana
- Guyana Trades Union Congress
Honduras
- Confederación de Trabajadores de Honduras
- Confederación Unica de Trabajadores de Honduras
Jamaica
- Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions
Mexico
- Confederación de Trabajadores de México
- Unión Nacional de Trabajadores
Montserrat
- Montserrat Allied Workers' Union
Nicaragua
- Confederación de Unificación Sindical
- Central Sandinista de Trabajadores
Panama
- Confederación de Trabajadores de la República de Panamá
- Convergencia Sindical
Paraguay
- Central Unica de Trabajadores
Peru
- Confederación Gral de Trabajadores del Perú
- Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú
Suriname
- Algemeen Verbond van Vakverenigingen de Moederbond (Frat.)
Trinidad and Tobago
- National Trade Union Centre of Trinidad and Tobago
United States
- AFL-CIO
Uruguay
- Asociación de Bancarios del Uruguay
Venezuela
- Confederación Trabajadores de Venezuela

Criticism

In June 2006 an American labor magazine, Labor Notes, documented the role that the ORIT, ICFTU, ILO, and the AFL-CIO played in supporting elements opposed to the government of Haitian leader Aristide. ORIT is alleged to have ignored massive labor persecution against public sector workers and trade unionist supporters of the ousted government throughout 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Leadership

General Secretaries

:1951: Francisco Aguirre :1952: Luis Alberto Monge :1958: Alfonso Sanchez Madariaga :1961: Arturo Jáuregui :1974: Julio Etcheverry Espinola :1977: Juan Del Pino :1983: Tulio Cuevas :1986: Luis Anderson McNeil :2003: Víctor Báez

Presidents

:1951: Arturo Sabroso Montoya :1952: Luis Alberto Colotuzzo :1955: Ignacio Gonzalez Tellechea :1961: Alfonso Sanchez Madariaga :1970: Blas Chumacero :1974: Rafael Camacho Guzmán :1977: Alfonso Sanchez Madariaga :1997: Dick Martin :2001: Linda Chavez-Thompson

References

"Americas: New Unified ITUC Regional Organisation Founded".
(2005). "Trade Unions of the World". John Harper Publishing.
"Labor Notes Archive".
(2000). "The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions". Peter Lang.

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