{"id":8146,"date":"2023-04-10T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:48:12","slug":"international-trade-union-confederation-ituc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-trade-union-confederation-ituc\/","title":{"rendered":"International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an organization <strong>established in 2006<\/strong>, that <strong>promotes the trade union movement<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>represents 176 million workers in 161 countries<\/strong> and territories and has 325 national affiliates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mission: Promotion and defence of workers\u2019 rights and interests<\/strong>, through international cooperation between trade unions, global campaigning and advocacy within the major global institutions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its main <strong>areas of activity<\/strong> include the following: <strong>trade union and human rights<\/strong>; <strong>economy, society and the workplace; equality and non-discrimination<\/strong>; and international solidarity.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>governed by four-yearly world congresses<\/strong>, a <strong>General Council<\/strong> and an <strong>Executive Bureau.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>works closely with the International Labour Organisation<\/strong> and with several other UN Specialised Agencies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters: Belgium<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Trade Union?<\/h3>\n<p>A trade union is an organisation made up of members (a membership-based organisation) and its membership must be made up mainly of workers. One of a trade union&#8217;s main aims is to protect and advance the interests of its members in the workplace. Most trade unions are independent of any employer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/world\/europe\/intl-trade-union-confederation-calls-wbg-imf-to-overhaul-multilateral-system-act-for-sustainable-recovery20230409193637\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Int&#8217;l Trade Union Confederation calls WBG, IMF to overhaul multilateral system, act for sustainable recovery<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITUC is an organization established in 2006, that promotes the trade union movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}