Caribbean Congress of Labour (Ca)
Caribbean Congress of Labour (Ca) : This is a regional grouping of national trade union centres and trade unions from across the English and Dutch-speaking territories of the Caribbean. It has as its objectives: The full organization of workers in the Caribbean; To fight for the recognition of trade unions; to secure educational, social, cultural, economic and other benefits for workers; To support other aims "in conformity with democratic principles of free Unionism'; To encourage the formation of national groupings and/or centres of trade unions; The defence of free trade unions, against infiltration and subjugation by totalitarian forces; and to build and strengthen ties between free trade unions of the Caribbean and those of the rest of this hemisphere and the world. The CCL was inaugurated during the period 14-15 September 1960, at a specially convened meeting of Caribbean Trade Union leaders in Grenada. This was the culmination of a series of attempts at establishing a regional trade union movement: The British Guiana and West Indies Labour Conference of 1926 to discuss economic and political matters (particularly federation). The Trinidad Conference of 1938 to discuss a regional position to be placed before the Moyne Commission which investigated the causes of the 1930's disturbances. The third British Guiana and West Indies Conference (1944) which coincided with the silver jubilee of the British Guiana Labour Union. The Barbados Conference of 1945, at which a Caribbean Labour Congress (CLC) was formed (to be dissolved in 1952 over ideological differences). The Barbados Conference of 1952, to establish a Caribbean Area Division of the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers (CADORIT) - an instrument of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) to project democratic western principles in the Caribbean area. The third conference of CADORIT (Trinidad, April 1958), which passed a resolution for the early establishment of a Caribbean congress of labour. The main administrative mechanisms of the CCL are the Triennial Conference of Delegates, the General Council and the Administrative Committee. Day-to-day administrative support is rendered by the Secretariat, which is currently located in Barbados
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