The Italian Union of Postal Workers (Italian : Unione Italiana Lavoratori poste, UIL POSTE) is a trade union representing workers at Poste italiane.
The union was founded on 21 March 1950, as the Italian Union of Post and Telecommunication Workers. It affiliated to the recently-founded Italian Labour Union. [1] By 1965, it had only 9,900 members, [2] but by 2013 this had grown to 29,540. [3]
A trade union or labor union, 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 and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade unions established in 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 in London, United Kingdom.
The Italian Confederation of Trades Unions is a national trade union centre in Italy representing various Catholic-inspired groups linked with Christian Democracy party.
The Italian Labour Union is a national trade union centre in Italy. It was founded in 1950 as a socialist, social democratic, republican, and laic split from the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL). It represents almost 2.2 million workers.
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Irving Brown was an American trade unionist and leader in the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and subsequently the AFL-CIO. Brown played a prominent role in Western Europe and Africa during the Cold War in splintering communist-led labor movements. Along with former Communist Party of the USA member Jay Lovestone, he founded the American Institute for Free Labor Development in 1962.
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