Manuel sur l'organisation syndicale (ITF)
Summary
A French-language training manual on union organization from the International Transport Workers’ Federation, with practical exercises and role-plays for transport-sector workplace organizing across the francophone world.
Body
The Manuel sur l’organisation syndicale is the International Transport Workers’ Federation’s (ITF) practitioner manual on trade-union organisation, published by ITF and downloadable from itfglobal.org [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale]. ITF is a democratic, affiliate-led federation recognised as the world’s leading transport authority, fighting to improve workers’ lives by connecting more than 760 affiliated trade unions from over 150 countries to secure rights, equality, and justice for more than 16.6 million transport workers globally [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale]. The federation runs offices in London, Abidjan, Amman, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong, Montreal, Nairobi, New Delhi, Panama City, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, with members spanning the globe [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale].
Coverage: the manual covers the trade-union organising cycle - recruitment, member retention, collective-bargaining preparation, strike management, internal democracy (congresses, committees, election procedures), international solidarity, and the specific transport-sector challenges (seafarers, dockers, aviation, road transport, railways) [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale]. ITF affiliates the manual to other language editions with partner federations; the publication is intended to be usable as a training text by affiliates regardless of their existing capacity [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale]. The manual complements ITF’s inspectorate network (which visits workplaces globally) and its campaign infrastructure (e.g. the action on DP World lease threats against jobs, safety, and community in New Zealand) [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale].
A campaigner reaches for it when designing a trade-union organiser training in the transport sector, when training new union organisers in collective bargaining or strike-management, or when sourcing the ITF’s sectoral vocabulary and methodology [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale]. Treat as link-only; the publication is reserved for ITF affiliates as the primary audience. [source: manuel-organisation-syndicale]
Use it for
Running a 5-day union-organizer training in French; training ITF or affiliate organizers; adapting role-plays for francophone non-transport unions.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
Sources & verification
- sources/manuel-organisation-syndicale — grounding: secondary — RAW (license unverified, default link-only)