期刊名称：Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN：1705-1436
出版年度：2007
卷号：11
出版社：York University
摘要：Three main political ILMOs have co-existed until recently: the World Confederation of Labour (WCL, Christian-oriented, founded in 1920), the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU, now communist-led, founded in 1945) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU, social-democrat, founded in 1949 out of a split from the WFTU). During the Cold War, these three organizations were very much involved in an East-West dynamic. The WFTU and the ICFTU, in particular, were considered as puppets of their respective camps in the world of labour (Gordon 2000, Moody 1997). With the fall of the USSR and its allies, the WFTU was considerably weakened and many now consider it a dying organization. The membership of the WCL has also suffered from the rising tendency of secularization among denominational unions. Both phenomena have led to the increase of the ICFTU's membership and to the foundation, in November 2006, of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which is actually a merger between the WCL and the ICFTU
