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The BGLU was founded in 1919, emerging as a labour union amongst black dockworkers. Led by Hubert Critchlow. It soon expanded into a colony-wide labour movement. [2] BGLU was not the first trade union in the Caribbean, but was the first to be legally registered. [3] By 1928 the organization claimed to have 1,073 members, of whom 341 were women. [4]
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The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union (GAWU) is the largest trade union in Guyana.It was founded in 1946 as the Guiana Industrial Workers' Union.After failing in the 1950s it was reformed as the Guyana Sugar Workers' Union in 1961 but changed its name to Guyana Agricultural Workers' Union in 1962 before becoming the GAWU later that decade.
The MPCA was first registered in 1937, and was initially led by Ayube Mohamed Edun. [1] The union represented sugar workers, many of whom were Indo-Guyanese. [2] After the Leonora sugar workers' strike in 1939, membership began to increase significantly, passing the 20,000 mark in 1943, making it the largest union in the country. [1]
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers RMT; Royal College of Nursing RCN (legally a professional society rather than a trade union) Scottish Artists Union SAU [3] Sex Workers Union (SWU) Society of Radiographers SoR; Solidarity Federation; Transport and General Workers Union T&G / TGWU; Transport Salaried Staffs' Association TSSA
Critchlow was born in Georgetown, Guyana. Little is known of his early childhood but in his late teens, after leaving school, he was a dock worker. At the age of 21, he began his struggle for the interest of waterfront workers' wage negotiations and rights. His struggle continued into 1917 when he founded the British Guiana Labor Union (BGLU).
The Guyana Trades Union Congress is a national trade union center in Guyana. It was founded in 1941 as the British Guiana Trades Union Council . It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation .
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