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Australia
Australian Congress of Trades Unions
France
Rail union affiliated to the left wing SUD Federation (Solidarity, Unity, Democracy)
Post and Telecomms union affiliated to
SUD Federation – second largest after CGT
International Union Federations
www.itf.org.uk/english/index.cfm
International Transport Federation
www.imfmetal.org/main/index.cfm
International Metal Workers Federation
International Federation of Journalists
Israel
Campaigning body organizing especially Arab Israeli citizens,
organizing in the building industry
South Africa
South African Municipal Workers Union one of the most left wing
of the unions and opponent of government’s economic policy
www.cosatu.org.za/affiliates.html
Links to COSATU (main union federation in Tripartite Alliance
with ANC and South African Communist Party) affiliates
UK
www.tuc.org.uk/tuc/unions_main.cfm
Links to British Trades Unions
Left grouping within Amicus, a fusion between the Engineering
Union (AEEU) and MSF (Manufacturing Science & Finance)
www.grassrootsfbu.co.uk/home.htm
A campaign set up by opponents of the deal the leadership
negotiated in the fire dispute
Socialist Teachers Alliance based in the National Union of
Teachers, largest teaching union
Left organization within public sector union UNISON
Off-Shore Industry Liaison
Committee – independent trade union of off-shore oil industry workers, outside
of the TUC. Originated
as a campaign around safety which brought together the unions in the North Sea,
but formed in response to a sell-out of the work force by official unions.
USA
AFL-CIO the pro-business union federation
www.calnurses.org/oldmainindex.html
California Nurses Association – a union opposed to ‘partnership’
with private health care companies which has campaigned for legal minimum
nurse/patient ratios, including strike action.
United Electrical Workers Union, an independent radical union,
not affiliated to the AFL-CIO. Involved in alliance with Mexican unions
employed by US multi-nationals (see its International Solidarity site (www.ueinternational.org/ )
Rank and file caucus within the United Auto Workers Union
Teamsters for a Democratic Union, reform caucus in the Teamsters
union headed by James Hoffa’s son
http://uniondemocracy.com/Resources/AUDLinks.htm#public
Rank and file and reform caucus links on the site of the
Association for Union Democracy