List of federations of trade unions in Europe

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General Confederation of Labour (France)

The General Confederation of Labour 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.

General Confederation of Labour can mean one of the following labor unions:

Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden


Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden is a syndicalist trade union federation in Sweden. Unlike other Swedish unions, SAC organises people from all occupations and industries in one single federation, including the unemployed, students, and the retired. SAC also publishes the weekly newspaper Arbetaren, owns the publishing house Federativs and runs the unemployment fund Sveriges Arbetares Arbetslöshetskassa (SAAK).

Confédération nationale du travail

The CNT-F or National Confederation of Labour is a French anarcho-syndicalist union.

Unione Sindacale Italiana

Unione Sindacale Italiana is an anarcho-syndicalist trade union. It is the Italian section of the International Workers' Association, and the name of USI is also abbreviated as USI-AIT.

Giuseppe Di Vittorio

Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti, was an Italian syndicalist and communist politician. He was one of the most influential trade union leaders of the labour movement after World War I.

Italian Labour Union

The Italian Labour Union or UIL is a national trade union center in Italy. It was founded in 1950 as a socialist, social democratic, (republican) and laic split from the Italian General Confederation of Labour. It represents almost 2.2 million workers.

General Labour Union (Italy)

The General Labour Union is an Italian Trade Union Confederation established in 1950, with the original denomination Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Nazionali Lavoratori (CISNAL). In 1996, CISNAL assumed its current name of General Labour Union, a symbolic change to respond to the new challenges of third-millennium society and the reforms of work legislation, without forgetting the founders’ values.

Italian anarchism as a movement began primarily from the influence of Mikhail Bakunin, Giuseppe Fanelli, and Errico Malatesta. Rooted in collectivist anarchism, it expanded to include illegalist individualist anarchism, mutualism, anarcho-syndicalism, and especially anarcho-communism. It participated in the biennio rosso and survived Italian fascism. Platformism and insurrectionary anarchism were particularly common in Italian anarchism and continue to influence the movement today. The synthesist Italian Anarchist Federation appeared after the war, and autonomismo and operaismo especially influenced Italian anarchism in the second half of the 20th century.

Workers Autonomous Trade Unions Confederation


The Workers Autonomous Trade Unions Confederation is an Italian autonomous trade union association.

The United Trade Unions of the Free Territory of Trieste, initially called the United Trade Unions of the Julian March, was a trade union confederation in the Free Territory of Trieste. The confederation was politically connected to the Communist Party of the Free Territory of Trieste (PCTLT/KPSTO).

The World Union of Liberal Trade Union Organizations known by its French acronym UMOS-BESL is a trade union federation of liberally inclined unions.

Luca Visentini

Luca Visentini is a trade unionist and poet and the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). He was elected at the ETUC Congress in Vienna in May 2019 for a second mandate, having already served four years as General Secretary.

The National Federation of Local Authority and Healthcare Workers was a trade union representing public sector workers in Italy.

The Italian Federation of Textile and Clothing Workers was a trade union representing garment and textile workers in Italy.

The Italian Federation of Textile Workers was a trade union representing workers in the textile industry in Italy.

The United Italian Federation of Clothing Workers was a trade union representing workers in the clothing and footwear industries in Italy.