All China Federation of Trade Unions
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| Full name | All-China Federation of Trade Unions |
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| Native name | 中华全国总工会 |
| Founded | May 1, 1925 |
| Members |
280 Mio. (2013) 250 (2012) 193 million in 2008134 million in 2005 |
| Affiliation | WFTU |
| Key people | Li Jianguo, chairman |
| Office location | Beijing, China |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Website | www.acftu.org.cn |
280 Mio. (2013) 250 (2012)
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU; simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Quánguó Zǒnggōng Huì) is the nationalised organisation federation of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest trade union in the world with 134 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations. The ACFTU is divided into 31 regional federations and 10 national industrial unions.
Officially founded on 1 May 1925. The Second National Labour Congress convened in Guangzhou with 277 delegates representing 540,000 workers and adopted the Constitution of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Between 1922 and 1927, the organization flourished, as did the Communist Party of China’s control over the trade union movement. The labour movement had grown enormously, particularly in the three industrial and commercial centres of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai, but it also had some organizational success in other cities, such as Wuhan. The ACFTU was restricted in 1927 by the newly established rule of the Nationalist regime under Chiang Kai-shek ordering the execution of thousands of CPC cadres and trade unionists. All CPC-led unions were banned and replaced with yellow unions loyal to him.
By the rise of Mao Zedong in 1949, the ACFTU had been re-established as the sole trade union centre, but was again dissolved in 1966 in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. Following Mao's death in 1976, in October 1978 the ACFTU held its first congress since 1957. Since the early 1990s it has been regulated by the Trade Union Law of the People’s Republic of China.
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (now the International Trade Union Confederation) maintains the position that the ACFTU is not an independent trade union organisation, and states in its policy:
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