European Trade Union Federation of Textiles, Clothing and Leather (ETUF:TCL)
The European Trade Union Federation of Textiles, Clothing and Leather (ETUF:TCL) was officially set up on 24 March 1975 in Brussels under the name European Trade Union Committee of Textiles, Clothing and Leather. The history of the Organisation actually began in 1964 with the launch of the "European Research Department" as part of what was known at the time as the International Federation of Textile and Garment Workers.
Today, the ETUF:TCL brings together 70 free and democratic trade union federations stemming from 40 European countries (mainly the European Union, the European Economic Area, accession countries as well as EU candidate countries, but also from the Balkans and a number of other Eastern European countries). As a result, the ETUF:TCL represents more than one million workers, in other terms one in three in TCL sectors within the area delimited by the Council of Europe.
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which will be included in the collective bargaining demands of all its 75 affiliated trade unions and in future collective bargaining rounds throughout Europe over the next four years.
