Trade Union International of Transport Workers

The Trade Union International of Transport Workers (TUI-TRANSPORT) is a sectoral federation of workers in the transport industry, affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions. It was formerly known as the Trade Unions International of Transport, Port and Fishery Workers.

History

The organization's roots go back to 1949 when two TUI affiliates of the WFTU were created: the Trade Unions International of Seamen and Dockers which represented seamen, inland waterways workers, fishermen and port workers, and the Trade Unions International of Land and Air Transport Workers. In March 1953, these two merged into Trade Union International of Transport, Port and Fishery Workers.[1][2] It kept the latter name until at least 1978,[2] but adopted the current name by 1985.[3] The federation held its 14th congress in Istanbul in March 2019.[4]

Organization

TUI has a controlling congress, later called a conference, an administrative committee, a bureau and a secretariat.[2] The union also had five branch commissions dealing with different sectors of the transportation industry: ports, civil aviation, railroads, maritime and motor transport.[3]

The Headquarters moved many times. In 1955 its address was reported as Seilerstaette 3, Vienna 1, Austria. It shared the address with the Trade Unions International of Miners Unions.[1] By 1957 its headquarters were in Janska 100, Prague 1, Czechoslovakia.[5] In 1978 it was still in the same district of Prague but at Opletalova 57.[2] By 1985 it had moved to Váci út 73,1138 Budapest, Hungary,[3] an address it would keep until at least 1991.[6] Its current address is at Rua Serra do Japi 31, São Paulo, Brazil.[7]

Membership

In 1978 the TUI claimed 17.5 million members in 115 unions.[2] In 1985 it claimed 18 million members in 145 unions in 72 countries [3] In 2004 it had 95 unions from 37 countries.[8]

Publications

The union issued a quarterly, Transport Workers of the World in English, French, Spanish and German, as well as a monthly Information Bulletin in English, French, Spanish and Russian.[2]

Leadership

General Secretaries

1953: André Fressinet
1958: Rafael Avila Gonzalez
1961: Augustin Gruenais
1970s: Debkumar Ganguli
1980s: Kulangara Chacko Mathew
1990s: Jozsef Toth
Wagner Fajardo Pereira
Ali Riza Kucukosmanoglu

Presidents

1953: Cesare Massini
1957: Alphonse Drouard
Georges Lanoue
1993:
Ricardo Maldonado Olivares

References

  1. ^ a b Directory of World Federation of Trade Unions Washington Office of International Labor Affairs, June 1955 p. 48
  2. ^ a b c d e f Coldrick, A. Percy; Jones, Philip. The international directory of the trade union movement New York : Facts on File, [1978] pp. 204–205
  3. ^ a b c d The World Federation of Trade Unions, 1945-1985. Prague; Published by the WTFU in cooperation with PRACE Czechoslovak Trade Unions 1985 p. 156
  4. ^ The Europa Directory of International Organizations. Routledge. 2020. ISBN 100032639X.
  5. ^ Facts about international Communist front organisations p. 55
  6. ^ Upham, Martin. Trade unions of the world, 1992-1993. Harlow, Essex, U.K. : Longman ; Detroit, Mich. : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by Gale Research Inc., 1991 p. 559
  7. ^ Trade Union Internationals
  8. ^ Europa World Year Book London; Taylor & Francis, 2004 p. 342