The CTH received support from foreign labor organizations, including ORIT, the American Institute for Free Labor Development ( AIFLD ), and Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation and was an affiliate of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ).

The ICFTU had three regional organisations, APRO for Asia and the Pacific, AFRO for Africa, and ORIT for the Americas.

The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) was an international trade union.

The ICFTU was formally dissolved on 31 October 2006 when it merged with the World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) to form the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ).

; Participation in international organizations: CARICOM, CSME, CCJ, ACS, ICCt, ACP, Commonwealth of Nations, CDB, ECLAC, FAO, G-77, IADB, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, International Maritime Organization, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, ISO, ITU, LAES, MIGA, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO.

The International Labour Organisation ( ILO ) and International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) condemned Chávez's interference in the affairs of free trade unions.

The matter of affiliation with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) is in dispute.

However, according to the International Institute of Social History, member unions of the ICFTU were opposed to affiliating with the Christian organization.

The WCL was formally dissolved on 31 October 2006 when it merged with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) to form the International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ).

In 1949, the AFL and other trade unions formed the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ), an international organization which rejected communist or communist-led trade unions.

In 1975 the CGT affiliated itself with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) opposed to Communism.

ACCT, AfDB, AsDB, Australia Group, BIS, CE, CERN, CGPM, EAPC, EBRD, ECE, EFTA, ESA, FAO, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD ( World Bank ), ICAO, ICC, ICC, ICDO, ICFTU, ICMM, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFCS, IFRCS, IGC, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, IWC, LAIA ( observer ), NAM ( guest ), NEA, NSG, OAS ( observer ), OECD, OIE, OPCW, OSCE, OTIF, PCA, PFP, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMIBH, UNMIK, UNMOP, UNOMIG, UNTSO, UNU, UPU, WCL, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO, ZC.

Prior to being dissolved, the ICFTU had a membership of 157 million members in 225 affiliated organisations in 148 countries and territories.

In 1949, early in the Cold War, alleging Communist domination of the WFTU's central institutions, a large number of non-communist national trade union federations ( including the U. S. AFL-CIO, the British TUC, the French FO, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT ) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries.

From the 1950s the ICFTU actively recruited new members from the developing regions of first Asia and subsequently Africa.

Following the collapse of Communist party government in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the Federation's membership has risen steeply from 87 million in 1988 and 100 million in 1992, as trade union federations from former Soviet bloc countries joined the ICFTU.

The ICFTU also maintained close links with the European Trade Union Confederation ( ETUC ) ( which includes all ICFTU European affiliates ) and Global Union Federations, which link together national unions from a particular trade or industry at international level.

The ICFTU has staff which are devoted entirely to the monitoring and defence of workers rights, and they issue — almost on a daily basis — alerts and calls to action.

The ICFTU published its " Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights " every June, the publication of which was usually accompanied by extensive press coverage of the violations of trade union rights around the world.

That constitution listed no fewer than seventeen aims of the organization and it has been argued that the ICFTU from its very beginning set itself goals that would be impossible to achieve — particularly with a small staff and budget.

In 2004 Australian union leader Sharan Burrow was elected as the first female president of the ICFTU.

ICFTU published an annual report which documents violations by governments, industries, and military and police forces against both workers and related trade unions.

ICFTU wrote that, " One of the most striking features of the violations that took place in Africa is the failure of governments to respect the rights of their own employees, both through the restrictions in law on organising, collective bargaining and strike action, and repression in practice.

ICFTU singled out Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, South Korea and the Philippines as having " particularly " violent episodes.

The WFTU has declined precipitously in the past twenty years since the fall of the Communist regimes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, with many of its former constituent unions joining the ICFTU.

AfDB, ALADI, Australia Group, BCIE, ECLAC, FAO, G-6, G-11, G-15, G-19, G-20, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, MIPONUH, MNNA, MTCR, NSG, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UN Security Council ( temporary ), Unasur, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCCC, UNFICYP, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMIBH, UNMIK, UNMOP, UNTAET, UNTSO, UNU, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO, Zangger Committee.

ACP, AsDB, C, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IMF, IMO, Intelsat ( nonsignatory user ), IOC, ITU, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, SOPAC, SPREP, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO.

James B. Carey also helped influence the CIO ’ s pullout from the WFTU and the formation of the ICFTU dedicated to promoting free trade and democratic unionism worldwide.

The company started Argentina's first burlap bag manufacturer, following which they successfully lobbied government policy makers for protective tariffs on the then-critical commercial staple.

The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San José.

Through the National Research Council, Hale simultaneously lobbied for science to play a larger role in national affairs, and for Throop to play a national role in science.

In the United States, the League of American Wheelmen lobbied for the improvement of roads in the last part of the 19th century, founding and leading the national Good Roads Movement.

At the time the fourth service was being considered, a movement in Wales lobbied for the creation of dedicated service that would air Welsh-language programmes, then only catered for at ' off peak ' times on BBC Wales and HTV.

There was also some evidence that the Department of Defense and the Air Force lobbied to get responsibility for the Cuban flights.

Reacting to a perceived threat, the planters lobbied for more direct British rule.

The Vatican's official press organ, l ' Osservatore Romano, lobbied for censorship while the Board of Roman Parish Priests and the Genealogical Board of Italian Nobility attacked the film.

The homophile movement lobbied to establish a prominent influence in political systems of social acceptability ; radicals of the 1970s would later disparage the homophile groups for being assimilationist.

By November 1944 Himmler had merged the army officer recruitment department with that of the Waffen-SS and had successfully lobbied for an increase in the quotas for recruits to the SS.

While initial talk existed of a race to Berlin by the Allies, after Stalin successfully lobbied for Eastern Germany to fall within the Soviet " sphere of influence " at Yalta, no plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.

They contributed their own collections of books, conducted lengthy fund raising campaigns for buildings, and lobbied within their communities for financial support for libraries, as well as with legislatures and the Carnegie Library Endowment founded in the 20th century.

During the multi-day session to determine a new location for the state capital, many cities, including Ann Arbor, Marshall, and Jackson, lobbied hard to win this designation.

It also actively lobbied for UK involvement in human space flight endeavours.

Burma's U Thant and U Nu lobbied for China's entry as a permanent member into the Security Council, but denounced the invasion of Tibet.

Over time, a few Marvel Comics writers lobbied Marvel editors to incorporate the idea of a Multiverse resembling DC's parallel worlds ; this plot device allows one to create several fictional universes which normally do not overlap ( see below or Multiverse for more information ).

Michelangelo was originally commissioned to paint the 12 Apostles against a starry sky, but lobbied for a different and more complex scheme, representing creation, the Downfall of Man and the Promise of Salvation through the prophets and Genealogy of Christ.

Puerto Rican leaders had lobbied for such an opportunity repeatedly, in 1898, 1912, 1914, 1919, 1923, 1929, 1932, 1939, 1943, 1944, 1948, 1956, and 1960.

Some groups seeking greater understanding and acceptance of sexual diversity have lobbied for changes to the legal and medical status of unusual sexual interests and practices.