Caribbean Congress of Labour

Regional trade union federation in the Caribbean

CCL

Caribbean Congress of Labour

Founded| 1960
Headquarters| Saint Michael, Barbados
Location|

* Caribbean

Members| 500,000 in 17 countries

Key people

| Jennifer Isaacs-Dotson, President
Asokore Beckles, General Secretary
Affiliations| Independent

The Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) is a regional trade union federation. It represents 500,000 members in 33 affiliated unions across 17 Caribbean nations.

The federation represents trade union concerns to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), as well as the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

The CCL works with both the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the Inter American Regional Organisation (ORIT).

## Leadership

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### General Secretaries

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1960: Osmond Dyce[1]
1966: Basil Blackman[1]
1969: Gaston Benjamin[1]
1973: Burns Bonadie[1]
1983: Kertist Augustus[1]
1998: George De Peana[1]
2007: Lincoln Lewis
2010: Chester Humphrey
2016: Asokore Beckles

### Presidents

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1960: Frank Walcott[1]
1963: Thossy Kelly[1]
1966: Frank Walcott[1]
1969: Richard Ishmael[1]
1973: Nathaniel Crichlow[1]
1977: Frank Walcott[1]
1980: Vernon Glean[1]
1983: Leonard Archer[1]
1986: Lascelles Beckford[1]
1989: Roy Trotman[1]
1995: Lloyd Goodleigh[1]
2001: Lincoln Lewis
2007: Jacqueline Jack
2010: David Massiah
2016: Jennifer Isaacs-Dotson

## See also

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* Organized labour portal

* List of trade unions
* List of federations of trade unions

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List of trade unions in the Americas

Sovereign
states|

* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Belize
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Canada
* Chile
* Colombia
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Grenada
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Nicaragua
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Suriname
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

Dependencies
and territories|

* Anguilla
* Aruba
* Bermuda
* Bonaire
* British Virgin Islands
* Cayman Islands
* Curaçao
* Falkland Islands
* French Guiana
* Greenland
* Guadeloupe
* Martinique
* Montserrat
* Puerto Rico
* Saba
* Saint Barthélemy
* Saint Martin
* Saint Pierre and Miquelon
* Sint Eustatius
* Sint Maarten
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
* Turks and Caicos Islands
* U.S. Virgin Islands

* North America
* Central America
* Caribbean
*   *   *   * South America

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q CARICOM: Our Caribbean Community : an Introduction. Ian Randle Publishers. 2005. p. 175\. ISBN 9766370567.

* ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* United States

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