ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation

ITUC Asia Pacific
ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation
Merged intoITUC Regional Organisation for Asia and Pacific
Founded1951
Dissolved2007
HeadquartersNTUC Centre, One Marina Boulevard, Singapore
Location
  • Asia and Pacific Region
Members30 million in 28 countries[1]
AffiliationsICFTU
Websitewww.icftu-apro.org

The ICFTU Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation (APRO) was a regional organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), representing trade unions from countries in Asia and Oceania.

History

The federation was founded in May 1951 at a meeting in Karachi, as the Asian Regional Organisation. It was initially based in Calcutta, but moved to New Delhi in 1956, and then Singapore in 1988. In 1984 it changed its name to the ICFTU-Asia Pacific Regional Organisation.[2] In 2007, following the merger of the ICFTU and the World Confederation of Labour (WCL), the organisation merged with the WCL's Brotherhood of Asian Trade Unions, to form the ITUC Regional Organisation for Asia and Pacific.

In 2006, the organisation described its aims thus:

The organisation seeks to bring about a just, welfare society with a higher standard of living. It believes that promoting a higher wage policy and the dignity and status of workers through a stronger trade union movement will help achieve this. Equipping workers with the skills to fight for fundamental rights, including the setting up of bona fide trade unions is perhaps its major undertaking. Under its current structure, ICFTU-APRO tackles education, information, social and economic policy, women, human and trade union rights and youth among its areas of work.

Affiliates

The following national organisations were affiliated to ICFTU-APRO in 2006:

Leadership

General Secretaries

1951: Dhyan Mungat[2]
1956: Govardhan Mapara[2]
1966: V. S. Mathur[2]
1988: Takashi Izumi[2]
2000: Noriyuki Suzuki

Presidents

1953: Robert Edward Jayatilaka[2]
1955: Jose J. Hernandez[2]
1960: P. P. Narayanan[2]
1965: Haruo Wada[2]
1968: Minoru Takita[2]
1969: P. P. Narayanan[2]
1976: Devan Nair[2]
1982: Tadanobu Usami[2]
1988: Gopeshwar[2]
1994: Ken Douglas[2]
2000: Sharan Burrow
2005: Govindasamy Rajasekaran[3]

References

  1. ^ "International Confederation of Free Trade Unions". Archived from the original on 2005-08-16. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Carew, Anthony (2000). The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Oxford: Peter Lang. p. 575–576. ISBN 9783906764832.
  3. ^ "Rajasekaran Govindasamy". Indian-Malaysian Online. Retrieved 28 June 2021.