Georgetown: Seepaul Narine, General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has been elected President of the Caribbean Region of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) at the just concluded Regional Conference of the IUF held in Barbados on June 6-7, 2011.
Other Executives are: Secretary – Clifton Grant of Jamaica, Vice Presidents – Veronica Griffith of Barbados and Ronna Dene Burgess of Bermuda and Committee Members – Bert Patterson of Grenada and Cindy Blanchard of Antigua and Barbuda.
The six member committee headed by Seepaul Narine is tasked for the next five years with the responsibility to organize and coordinate activities including educational work which is set by the IUF among the membership of the IUF affiliated Unions.
The Caribbean affiliates are from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
The IUF is an international Federation of Trade Unions representing workers employed in Agriculture and Plantations, the preparation and manufacturing of Food and Beverages, Hotels, Restaurant and Catering Services and all stages of Tobacco processing. Founded in 1920, IUF which is based in Geneva, Switzerland is composed of three hundred and thirty six (336) trade unions in one hundred (120) countries representing a combined membership of over twelve (12) million workers.
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