58:, and was the only global union federation to have headquarters outside Europe. By 1960, it had 43 affiliates, with a membership of more than 500,000. In 1963, the union began recruiting unions of chemical workers, and renamed itself as the "International Federation of Petroleum and Chemical Workers". This brought it into conflict with the IFF, which renamed itself as the "International Federation of Chemical and General Workers' Unions" (ICF), and the ICFTU suspended grants to both organisations.
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funds, and it became regarded as a CIA front organisation. Faced with a loss of prestige, it discussed a potential merger with the ICF, but this did not occur, and it dissolved in 1976.
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of the United States. It was formed in response to the growth of employment in the oil industry, and was initially named the
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National
Federation of Workers in Commercial Distribution Companies of Mining Products and Combustible Materials
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The secretariat was established in 1954 at a meeting in Paris, held on the initiative of the
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bringing together trade union representing workers in the chemical and oil industries.
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By the late 1960s, it became known that the IFPCW was receiving regular grants from
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National
Federation of Workers in the Chemical, Parachemical and Glass Industries
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International
Federation of Industrial Organisations and General Workers' Unions
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Cartel of Unions of
Research and Development Engineers in Hydrocarbons
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47:. Most of its founder members had previously been affiliated to the
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In 1960, the following unions were affiliated to the federation:
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168:
Federation of
Petroleum and Related Industries' Workers of Peru
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Consolidated Mobil Oil
Workers' Union of Nigeria and Cameroons
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325:
National
Federation of Engineers and Supervisory Employees
21:
International
Federation of Petroleum and Chemical Workers
441:
Panhellenic
Federation of Petroleum Workers and Employees
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Lebanese
Petroleum Company Employees' and Workers' Union
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The international directory of the trade union movement
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National Federation of Petroleum and Products Workers
685:
Directory of International Trade Union Organizations
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Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
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Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
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931:
860:
791:
732:
726:International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
37:International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
710:
90:Autonomous Union of Italian Petroleum Workers
45:International Federation of Petroleum Workers
8:
717:
703:
695:
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16:Former global union federation (1954–1976)
243:General Union of Miscellaneous Industries
129:Central Islamic Labour Union of Indonesia
522:Swiss Textile and Factory Workers' Union
487:Petroleum Workers' Federation of Curaçao
976:Bureau of Workers Activities of the ILO
665:Coldrick, A. P.; Jones, Philip (1979).
652:
594:Union of Petroleum Workers of Colombia
476:Petroleum Workers' Federation of Aruba
430:Pakistan Petroleum Workers' Federation
408:Oil Companies' Field Staff Association
268:Kenya Petroleum and Oil Workers' Union
7:
583:Union of Organised Petroleum Workers
561:Union of Oil and Methane Gas Workers
463:Petroleum Employees' Union of Ceylon
103:Bengal Oil and Petrol Workers' Union
1018:Trade unions disestablished in 1976
572:Union of Oil and Petroleum Workers
511:Singapore Petroleum Workers' Union
303:Mobil Oil Company Employees' Union
290:Madras Kerosene Oil Workers' Union
231:General Union of Petroleum Workers
218:General Union of Petroleum Workers
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547:Union of Metal, Mining and Energy
143:Chemical, Paper and Ceramic Union
1013:Trade unions established in 1954
970:International Trade Secretariats
535:Turkish Petroleum Workers' Union
41:Oil Workers' International Union
1003:Chemical industry trade unions
498:Petroleum Workers' Trade Union
422:British West Indies Federation
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337:National Federation of Miners
255:Kenya Chemical Workers' Union
54:The secretariat was based in
419:Oilfield Workers' Federation
1034:
741:Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek
452:Petroleum Employees' Union
683:Goldberg, Arthur (1960).
1008:Global union federations
314:Mobil Oil Workers' Union
982:Socialist International
25:global union federation
932:Regional organisations
85:Affiliated membership
617:1954: Loyd A. Haskins
204:Gambia Workers' Union
179:Hind Oil Kamger Sabha
963:Allied organisations
490:Netherlands Antilles
479:Netherlands Antilles
234:United Arab Republic
794:general secretaries
733:General secretaries
612:General Secretaries
939:APRO: Asia Pacific
642:1973: George Sacre
620:1973: Curtis Hogan
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816:Herbert A. Tulatz
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917:Fackson Shamenda
899:Donald MacDonald
834:John Vanderveken
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808:Alfred Braunthal
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39:(ICFTU) and the
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978:(ILO-ACTRAV)
944:AFRO: Africa
893:Bruno Storti
759:Otto Kersten
684:
669:. Macmillan.
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147:West Germany
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949:ERO: Europe
911:Roy Trotman
887:Arne Geijer
777:Bill Jordan
753:Harm Buiter
632:Jack Knight
525:Switzerland
247:Netherlands
997:Categories
869:Paul Finet
861:Presidents
840:Enzo Friso
792:Assistant
771:Enzo Friso
647:References
638:Luis Tovar
625:Presidents
607:Leadership
69:Affiliates
881:Omer Becu
852:Zé Olívio
783:Guy Ryder
747:Omer Becu
586:Venezuela
514:Singapore
191:Histadrut
132:Indonesia
597:Colombia
433:Pakistan
403:200,000
600:20,000
555:Unknown
551:Austria
529:Unknown
505:Unknown
470:Unknown
436:12,000
425:12,000
390:10,000
366:40,000
355:10,919
317:Lebanon
306:Lebanon
297:Unknown
282:Lebanon
262:Unknown
237:20,000
225:Unknown
221:Tunisia
212:Unknown
162:Unknown
158:Nigeria
150:10,000
136:Unknown
123:Unknown
110:Unknown
97:Unknown
82:Country
51:(IFF).
31:History
972:(ITSs)
921:2004:
915:2000:
909:1992:
903:1975:
897:1972:
891:1965:
885:1957:
879:1953:
873:1951:
867:1949:
850:2002:
844:1993:
838:1984:
832:1974:
826:1972:
820:1967:
806:1960:
800:1952:
781:2002:
775:1995:
769:1992:
763:1982:
757:1972:
751:1967:
745:1960:
739:1949:
636:1967:
630:1954:
589:1,300
578:2,200
567:8,795
541:6,000
538:Turkey
493:6,200
482:3,000
466:Ceylon
447:5,000
444:Greece
387:Canada
377:4,000
374:France
363:Brazil
341:France
328:France
274:2,500
250:1,400
208:Gambia
198:2,400
195:Israel
174:1,000
119:France
56:Denver
575:Ghana
564:Italy
501:Libya
455:India
411:India
293:India
271:Kenya
258:Kenya
182:India
106:India
93:Italy
79:Union
814:and
517:989
458:800
414:150
352:Cuba
344:600
331:300
320:140
309:140
185:600
171:Peru
19:The
285:75
63:CIA
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