European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions
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The European Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (CESI; French
Confédération Européenne des Syndicats Indépendants, German
Europäische Union der unabhängigen Gewerkschaften, Italian
Confederazione Europea Sindacati Indipendenti) is a regional trade union
federation representing 8 million members of independent trade unions in Europe
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CESI represents free and independent trade unions from the private and public sectors that adhere to democratic principles and defend the respect of human rights.
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
Confédération Européenne des Syndicats Indépendants, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
Europäische Union der unabhängigen Gewerkschaften, Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
Confederazione Europea Sindacati Indipendenti) is a regional trade union
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
federation representing 8 million members of independent trade unions in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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CESI represents free and independent trade unions from the private and public sectors that adhere to democratic principles and defend the respect of human rights.