Sentence examples for icftu from inspiring English sources
Bill Jordan, general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), a Brussels-based club of 206 union federations from 141 countries, puts it this way: "We aim to get the world committed to core standards.
Bill Jordan, the general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), visited Caracas last month.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the world's principal organization of national trade union federations.
He warned the government that if it goes ahead and interferes with the unions, the ICFTU will call for a boycott of Venezuelan goods, and of the country's trade shipments.
The ICFTU was formed in 1949 by Western trade union federations that had withdrawn from the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) after bitter disagreements with the communist-led unions in the WFTU.
The primary strength of the ICFTU lies in the trade union federations of western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Latin America.
By the late 20th century the ICFTU had more than 200 member organizations representing 125,000,000 workers in 140 countries and territories.
The AFL CIO withdrew from the ICFTU in 1969 but later rejoined the federation.
