Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions

Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions

The Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions ( _lb. Lëtzebuerger Chrëschtleche Gewerkschaftsbond, _fr. Fédération des syndicats chrétiens luxembourgeois), abbreviated to LCGB, is a Luxembourgian national trade union center. It is a federation of trade unions that, as its statutes state, abide by the 'principles of Christian social teachings'.de icon cite web |url=http://lcgb.lu/uploads/wysiwyg/statuts/LCGB_statuten_de.pdf |title=LCGB Statuten |accessdate=2008-05-19 |last= |first= |date= |work=|publisher=Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions ] It is affiliated to the World Confederation of Labour and the International Trade Union Confederation, having been affiliated to the Christian democratic European Trade Union Confederation. [cite web |url=http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/eurpro/brussels/partners/social.htm |title=The Social Partners |accessdate=2008-05-19 |last= |first= |date= |work=|publisher=International Labour Organisation ]

By membership, the LCGB is the second-largest trade union federation in the country, with 40,000 members; the Luxembourg Confederation of Independent Trade Unions (OGBL), is the largest, with 58,000 members.cite web |url=http://www.worker-participation.eu/national_industrial_relations/countries/luxembourg/trade_unions |title=Trade Unions |accessdate=2008-05-19 |last=Fulton |first=L. |date=2007 |work=Worker Representation in Europe |publisher=Labour Research Department ] These two federations are dominant in the private sector, except the twin areas of banking and insurance, which have an independent union. In a highly-unionised country (in which 46% of employees are unionised), the LCGB represents 27% of all trade unionists.

It is nominally politically independent, although it has long-standing political ties to the Christian Social People's Party (CSV). Whilst the LCGB supports the CSV and the OGBL the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party, the two have good relations, as manifest in their formation of a shared bureau for the steel industry in 2002.

The General Secretary of the LCGB is Marc Spautz, a CSV member of the Chamber of Deputies.

List of Presidents

* Michel Wolff (1921 – 1924)
* Mathias Dossing (1924 – 1938)
* Jean-Baptiste Rock (1938 – 1951)
* Léon Wagner (1951 – 1966)
* Pierre Schockmel (1967)
* Jean Spautz (1967 – 1980)
* Marcel Glesener (1980 – 1996)
* Robert Weber (1996 – )

Footnotes

External links

*/de icon [http://lcgb.lu/fr Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions official website]


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