Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores
The Organización Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores (ORIT) is an inter-American labour federation formed in Mexico City in 1951. The organisation was closely linked to the anti-communist wing of the international labour movement at the time. At the inaugural meeting, the United States delegation was led by George Meany of the American Federation of Labor. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions was represented by Vincent Tewson of the British Trades Union Congress.[1]
A 1969 staff report by Robert H. Dockery for the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee stated that because of its support for US foreign policy:
- ORIT endorsed the overthrow of the Arbenz regime in Guatemala and of the Goulart regime in Brazil. It supported Burnham over Cheddi Jagan in Guyana, and it approved the US intervention in the Dominican Republic. To many Latin Americans, this looks like ORIT is an instrument of the U.S. State Department.[2]
After the formation of the International Trade Union Confederation ORIT was replaced by the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (TUCA).[1]
External resources
- Jeb Sprague, Failed Solidarity: The ICFTU, AFL-CIO, ILO, and ORIT in Haiti, Labor Notes, 28 September 2006.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 James C. Docherty, Sjaak van der Velden, Jacobus Hermanus Antonius van der Velden, Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor, Scarecrow Press, 2012, p.203.
- ↑ Cited in Ronald Radosh, American Labor and United States Foreign Policy, New York: Random House, 1969, p.374.
