Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation
Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation | |
Founded | 1992 |
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Location | |
Members | 800,000 (claimed) |
The Sudanese Workers' Trade Union Federation (SWTUF) is the sole national trade union center in the Sudan.[1]
The current SWTUF is a government sponsored trade union federation that was re-organized in 1992 from the original SWTUF which, along with all other trade unions, was dissolved by
ICTUR reports that the leaders of the dissolved SWTUF were allowed to keep their personal freedom (a concession not afforded to all Sudanese labour unionists) but were restricted from continued activity.[1]
History
In 1949 the
The SWTUF controlled roughly 70 percent of all labor-union membership by the
Upon
SWTUF leadership remained in communist hands.[2] After the abortive communist coup in mid-1971, the government dissolved the SWTUF and executed a number of its leaders.[2]
In the early 1970s, the SWTUF was reinstituted.[2] Prior to 1989, the SWTUF, in its weakened state, included 42 trade unions, representing more than 1.7 million workers in the public and private sectors.[2]
Following the
The 1998 constitution provided the right of association for trade-union purposes, but as of 2011 the government continued to restrict this right.[2] Only the government-controlled SWTUF, the leading blue-collar labor organization with about 800,000 members, functioned legally.[2]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8444-0750-0. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Though published in 2015, this work covers events in the whole of Sudan (including present-day South Sudan) until the 2011 secession of South Sudan.)
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