Free Trade Union International organization
also: International Confederation of Free Trade Union, ICFTU, International Confederation of Free Labor Unions, Western Oriented Trade Union International
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Claims (4)
Arne Geijer headed
Free Trade Union International host_asserted
“I guess Carl Arn Geiger is his name. But he came up with basically a Swedish style kind of labor union. He was the chairman of the Free Trade Union International and sat on his board. And if you look into that one, what's interesting about …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Sweden @ 42:20
Danish Federation of Trade Unions member_of
Free Trade Union International documented
“playing a major role, and with Eiler Jensen as its vice chairman, was formed. Through its affiliation with the ICFTU, that's the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the DFTU became involved in intelligence work, no kidding, an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 39:41
Eiler Jensen member_of
Free Trade Union International documented
“playing a major role, and with Eiler Jensen as its vice chairman, was formed. Through its affiliation with the ICFTU, that's the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the DFTU became involved in intelligence work, no kidding, an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism #2 @ 39:41
Irving Brown member_of
Free Trade Union International book_quoted
“intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 9:17
Mentions (10)
▶ 14:27
The PSI's, quote, finances were low and its stocks were low with its own parent body, the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, which was set up by the CIA in 1949 to rival the Soviet influenced World Federation of Trade Unions. …
▶ 42:20
I guess Carl Arn Geiger is his name. But he came up with basically a Swedish style kind of labor union. He was the chairman of the Free Trade Union International and sat on his board. And if you look into that one, what's interesting about …
▶ 56:51
and the British secret intelligence to get the ball rolling. The agency had longstanding ties to AFL, American Federation of Labor. They had played a central role in the 1949 creation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions …
▶ 39:07
and go with the one that wanted to ostracize. Again, it's just this manipulation of how this thing works is just crazy. So the DFTO then participated in establishing a thing called the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. In 19…
▶ 39:41
playing a major role, and with Eiler Jensen as its vice chairman, was formed. Through its affiliation with the ICFTU, that's the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, the DFTU became involved in intelligence work, no kidding, an…
▶ 42:27
ICFTU meant that the Danish trade unions contributed towards Denmark's integration into the Western Alliance. And the same thing happened in other Nordic countries to include Sweden, even though officially, militarily, and politically they …
▶ 13:36
Despite the use of certain delaying maneuvers from the communists, the Swiss Trade Union Confederation, the biggest union federation in Switzerland, had shown great skill in proposing a call for membership of the International Confederation…
▶ 9:17
intellectuals, and journalists who were engaged in a cultural Cold War. He belonged to a group of international journalists and correspondents who informed Irving Brown, director of the union that we've been talking about, the European Offi…
▶ 9:44
on non-West parts of the world. Both the AFL and the ICFTU, that international version of it, aimed at challenging communism and beating it at its own game, said Brown. The journalist network included Helmi Sabour, S-A-B-B-O-U-R, in the Nea…
▶ 51:37
I wondered if there was affiliation with the International Coaching Federation because I come from global human capital and I thought, oh, that'd be bad. Well, ICF, I believe, is actually ICFTU, which is the International Confederation of F…