Predecessor | Plantation Workers International Federation International Landworkers' Federation |
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Merged into | International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations |
Founded | 2 Dec 1959 |
Dissolved | 31 Dec 1993 |
Headquarters | 17, Rue Necker, Geneva, Switzerland |
Members | 3 million (1994) [1] |
Publication | IFPAAW Snips |
The International Federation of Plantation and Agricultural Workers (IFPAAW) was a global union federation bringing together unions representing land workers.
The federation was created on December 2, 1959, when the Plantation Workers International Federation (PWIF) merged with the International Landworkers' Federation (ILF). The ILF consisted of European unions representing agricultural workers, while the PWIF consisted of mostly workers on plantations in poorer countries, but also included some former affiliates of the defunct International Federation of Tobacco Workers. [1]
By 1976, IFPAW claimed 3 million members, and maintained this level for the remainder of its existence. At some point, it changed its name slightly to the International Federation of Plantation, Agricultural and Allied Workers, while retaining the IFPAW abbreviation. [1]
IFPAW pioneered collective bargaining at the international level in 1988, when it signed an agreement with Danone. [1]
The federation merged into the International Union of Food and Allied Workers' Associations at 1 January 1994, which renamed itself as the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association. [1]
In 1960, the following unions were affiliated to the federation: [2]
Union | Country | Affiliated membership |
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All Trinidad Sugar Estates and Factory Workers Union | British West Indies Federation | 7,000 |
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America | United States | 4,500 |
Barbados Workers' Union | British West Indies Federation | 6,000 |
British Guiana Trades Union Council | British Guiana | Unknown |
Cameroons Development Corporation Workers' Union | British Cameroons | 14,000 |
Ceylon Workers' Congress | Ceylon | 140,000 |
Danish Gardeners' Union | Denmark | 5,302 |
Danish General and Special Workers' Union | Denmark | 25,000 |
Eastern Region Development Corporation Workers' Union | Nigeria | 2,700 |
Federation of Peasants and Rural Workers of Peru | Peru | 1,000,000 |
General Union | Belgium | 4,000 |
Grenada Manual and Mental Workers' Union | British West Indies Federation | 10,000 |
Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union | West Germany | 85,000 |
Italian Federation of Agricultural Employees and Labourers | Italy | 325,000 |
Italian Union of Land Workers | Italy | 448,669 |
National Agrarian Federation | Costa Rica | 1,500 |
National Federation of Agricultural Technicians and Employees | Italy | 4,000 |
National Federation of Agricultural Workers | France | 2,000 |
National Federation of Farmers | Colombia | 12,000 |
National Federation of Sharecroppers and Smallholders | Italy | 100,000 |
National Federation of Sugar Workers | Peru | 25,000 |
National Union of Agricultural Workers | United Kingdom | 125,000 |
National Union of Hired Agricultural Workers | Israel | 200,000 |
National Union of Plantation Workers | Malaysia | 140,000 |
National Workers Union | British West Indies Federation | 8,000 |
General Dutch Industrial Union of Agriculture | Netherlands | 39,962 |
Norwegian Union of Forestry and Land Workers | Norway | 8,000 |
Plantation Workers' Federation of Vietnam | South Vietnam | 26,000 |
Plantation Workers' Union | Mauritius | 5,000 |
Rural Workers' Union | Finland | 6,620 |
St Lucia Workers' Co-operative Union | British West Indies Federation | 958 |
Swedish Agricultural Workers' Union | Sweden | 29,925 |
Tanganyika Sisal and Plantation Workers' Union | Tanganyika | 81,339 |
Tela Railroad Company Workers' Union | Honduras | Unknown |
Transport and General Workers' Union | United Kingdom | 6,000 |
Union of Agricultural and Forestry Workers | Austria | 68,636 |
Union of Commerce, Transport and Food | Switzerland | 1,010 |
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