The Federated Workers Trade Union (FWTU) was a 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...

 in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

 that was formed in 1935. It was Registered in 1937 and became the recognised union for some workers in the private sector but also those in the Public Works Department and the Trinidad Government Railways.

In 1959 the Amalgamated Engineering and General Workers' Trade Union

Amalgamated Engineering and General Workers' Trade Union

The Amalgamated Engineering and General Workers' Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1959 with the Federated Workers Trade Union....

 merged with the FWTU followed by the British Colonial Taxpayers and All Workers Union

British Colonial Taxpayers and All Workers Union

The British Colonial Taxpayers and All Workers Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago that merged in 1959 with the Federated Workers Trade Union....

 in the same year.

The FWTU merged in 1967 with the National Union of Government Employees

National Union of Government Employees

In 1957 the National Union of Government Employees , a former trade union in Trinidad and Tobago, was formed as a result of a merger between the Industrial and Railway Employees Trade Union, the Government Farm and Nursery Workers Trade Union and the Works and Hydraulics Industrial Workers Union...

 to form the National Union of Government and Federated Workers.