UNION BUILDING

WHAT WE DO

Organisations with strong institutional capacity enable union leaders to run the union in a transparent, efficient and sustainable fashion, and ensuring gender awareness and the development of young leaders as part of this. Union leaders of such calibre are in the best position to build organising and bargaining capacity, and to empower members for activism, mobilisation, and the fight for their interest.

Union building projects support the ITF’s overall strategic plan of growing workers power, are part of the operational plans of sections regions and departments, and are based on clear strategic target selection. They build new unions where there aren’t any yet, strengthen unions where they exist but want to become more powerful, or consolidate small unions into greater more powerful organisation.

PROJECTS & SUPPORTERS

The foundation for our work is the mandate from the ITF’s Congress.

All our projects take place in Latin America, Africa, the Arab World and Asia/ Pacific and support the work of the ITF’s industrial sections, the women’s team and the youth team.

Many union building projects are supported by our partners, the Trade Union Solidarity Support Organisations, TUSSOs, and some through bilateral partnerships.

ITF affiliates in the home countries of the TUSSOs also contribute to Union Building projects.

PROJECT: REMARKABLE WOMEN WHO MOVE THE WORLD 

Women transport workers move the world, and we are proud to be part of a project that helps empower some of those remarkable women and their unions, creating visibility around the challenges women face in urban mobility. 

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