The Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers (Russian: Международный профсоюз работников сельского хозяйства, лесного хозяйства и плантаций; 1949 – 1997) was a trade union international affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.
History The TUI was founded at a conference in Warsaw, Poland in December 1949. Its original name was the Trade Union International of Agricultural and Forestry Workers. In 1997 the Trade Union International of Agroalimentary, Food, Commerce, Textile & Allied Industries was formed by the merger of the Trade Union International of Agricultural, Forestry and Plantation Workers, Trade Union International of Food, Tobacco, Hotel and Allied Industries Workers, Trade Union International of Workers in Commerce and Trade Union International of Textile, Leather and Fur Workers Unions.
Organization By 1985 the TUI had branch commissions representing workers in agriculture, plantations, the forestry industry and peasant workers. In 1955 the headquarters of the organization was located at 19 Via Boncampagni, Rome. In 1985, its address was reported as Opletalova 57 Prague 1, Czechoslovakia. However, by 1989 it had moved to Serpoukhovkaia 44, 113093 Moscow where it stayed until at least 1991.
Conferences 1st Warsaw, December 1949 - attended by delegates from the Soviet Union, China, East Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania representing 6.57 million members. Unions in Brazil, Albania, North Korea and Tunisia also affiliated. 2nd, 1951 - attended by 205 delegates and observers (66 from Latin America) representing 146 national and regional organizations. 7th Moscow, 1975 9th Warsaw, October 3–6, 1983 - 110 organizations from 71 countries (members and observers) representing 73 million workers attended.
Members The following groups were affiliated with the TUI in 1960 to 1997.
Albania - Union Professionelle des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture, et des Forets Angola - União dos Trabalhadores Angolanos Argentina - Union de Productores Agropecuarios de Republica Argentina Bangladesh - Chittagong Tea Garden Workers Union Benin - Fédération Nationale des Syndicats des Travailleurs de la Production Vegetale et Animale de Benin Bolivia - Unión Nacional de Campesinos Bulgaria - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture et des Industrie Alimentaire Chile - Confederación Nacional Campesina e Indigena de Chile - RANQUIL China - National Committee of the Chinese Agricultural, Forestry and Water Conservancy Workers' Union Colombia - FENSA Congo - Fédération Syndicale des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture et des Forets - FESYTRAF Costa Rica - Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de Plantaciones Cuba - Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Forestales Cyprus - Cyprus Agricultural, Forestry General Workers' Trade Union Czechoslovakia - Fédération des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture Ecuador - Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios El Salvador - Asociación de Trabajadores Agropecuarios de El Salvador - ATACES France - Federation of Agricultural and Forestry Workers - CGT Guadeloupe - Confédération générale du travail de Guadeloupe Reunion - CGT- Reunion East Germany - Union of Land, Food and Forests Ghana - General Agricultural Workers' Union of the Trade Union Congress Guyana - Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union Hungary - Fédération des Travailleurs Agricoles et Forestiers India - Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union India - All India Agricultural Workers Union Iraq - General Union of Agricultural Workers Italy - National Federation of Italian Agricultural Labourers and Employees Jordan - General Union of Agricultural Forestry and Plantation Workers of Jordan North Korea - Union des Travailleurs Agricoles de Corree Madagascar - Fedération des Syndicats des Travailleurs de Madagascar - FISEMA Mauritius - Agricultural Workers Union Mexico - Central Independiente de Oberos Agricolas y Campesinos de Mexico Mongolia - Comite Central du Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture Nepal - Nepal Beekeepers' Association Nicaragua - Confederación de Campesinos y de Trabajodores de Nicaragua Nigeria - Federation of Agricultural Workers' Union of Nigeria Palestine - General Union of Palestinian Peasants Poland - Fedération des Syndicats des Travailleurs Agricoles Romania - Union des Syndicats des Enterprises et Institutes Agricoles Sierra Leone - Transport Agricultural and General Workers' Union Soviet Union - Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Agriculture Sri Lanka - United Plantation Workers' Union Syria - Union Generale des Paysans Togo - SYNASCOT Vietnam - Syndicat National de Travaileurs de Forets de Vietnam South Yemen - Trade Union of Agricultural Workers
Leadership
General Secretaries 1949: Ilio Bosi 1960: Vincenzo Galetti 1964: Umberto Fornari 1968: Claude Billault 1980: Gerard Laugier 1980s: René Digne 1980s: André Hemmerle
Presidents 1949: Suleiman Tjugito 1966: Giaochino Chisio Andreas Kyriakou
See also Krestintern
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