Public Works and Public Service Workers Trade Union
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The Public Works and Public Service Workers Trade Union was a trade union
in Trinidad and Tobago
that merged with the National Union of Government Employees
in 1959.
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 merged 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...
in 1959.
See also
- List of trade unions
- Federated Workers Trade UnionFederated Workers Trade UnionThe Federated Workers Trade Union was a trade union in Trinidad and Tobago 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...
- National Union of Government and Federated Workers