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The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU, also referred to as the Busta Union) is a trade union center in Jamaica established by Sir Alexander Bustamante. The BITU was formed in 1938, as a split from the Jamaica Workers and Tradesmen's Union. [2] It built up a membership of 54,000 within 6 years. [1]
Bustamante and the others recommended the formation of a trade union to empower the workers. [3] On November 16, 1940, Kingston city workers formed the Municipal Officers Association. Although Bustamante and others had counseled an industrial union, membership in the new organization was limited to white-collar workers. Government workers ...
The union was established in 1937, by Allan Coombs, and the Marxist Hugh Clifford Buchanan. Soon after, Percy A. Aiken led a breakaway, the Builders and Allied Trade Union. [1] Alexander Bustamante joined the union, and soon became prominent by writing letters to the press regarding a strike wave in Jamaica. In 1937, he was appointed as the ...
During the 1938 labour rebellion, he quickly became identified as the spokesman for striking workers, who were mostly of African and mixed-race descent. Coombs' JWU became the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) after the revolt, and Bustamante became known as "The Chief ". [5] In 1940, he was imprisoned on charges of subversive activities.
Bustamante Industrial Trade Union; J. Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers; Jamaica Civil Service Association; Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions;
The JCTU emerged from the Joint Trade Unions Research Development Centre (JTURDC) which was founded on 11 September 1980 by the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union, the National Workers Union, the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers and the Trade Union Congress.
The party was founded on 8 July 1943 by Alexander Bustamante as the political wing of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union. Bustamante had previously been a member of the PNP. It won the 1944 general elections with 22 of the 32 seats. [20] It went on to win the 1949 elections with a reduced majority. The PNP received more votes (203,048) than ...
As the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union was the largest organization in Jamaica at the time, [5] Longbridge was arguably the most influential woman in Jamaica. [5] Bustamante later described the role of women in the Jamaican trade union movement in her memoir, "We women were the mainstay of the union's organisation, though we could hardly have ...