The World Federation of Workers in Food, Drink, Tobacco and Hotel Industries (, FMATH) was a global union federation bringing together unions representing workers in food and service industries.
History The federation was established on 10 October 1948 at a meeting in Marche-en-Famenne. Initially named the International Christian Federation of Food, Drink, Tobacco and Hotel Workers, the federation was a merger of the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions of Workers in the Food and Drink Trades, the International Federation of Christian Tobacco Workers, and a federation of Christian hotel workers. Like its predecessors, it affiliated to the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions.
By 1979, the federation's affiliates claimed a total of 250,000 members. In 1982, it merged with the World Federation of Agricultural Workers, to form the World Federation of Agriculture and Food Workers.
Affiliates The following unions were affiliated in 1979:
Union Country Membership Sindicato de los Trabajadores de la Industria Lechera Argentina Christian Fraction of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union Austria 800 Christian Fraction of the Union of Workers in Food and Allied Industries Austria 4,000 Christian Union of Workers in Food, Tobacco and Hotels Belgium 55,000 Confédération des syndicats nationaux Canada 9,000 Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria de Hongos Costa Rica Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores de la Cana Dominican Republic ALEB West Germany Sindicato de Trabajadores de Traborcalera Centro Americana SA Guatemala Federacion Hondurena de Trabajadores de la Alimentacion Honduras Indian Federation of Workers in Food, Tobacco and Catering Industries India 18,008 Cigarette and Tobacco Union Indonesia 105,246 Luxembourg Confederation of Christian Trade Unions Luxembourg 450 Montserrat Allied Workers Union Montserrat Catholic Union of Agriculture, Food and Tobacco Netherlands 11,727 Food Union Netherlands 8,000 Industrial Workers' Union CNV Netherlands 3,186 Industrial Workers' Union NKV Netherlands 8,300 Federacion de Trahadornan di Aruba Netherlands Antilles Bond Trahadornan HORECAF Netherlands Antilles Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria Aceitera de Managera Nicaragua Federation of Hotel, Food, Drink and Catering Workers' Unions of Nigeria Nigeria Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores del Comercio y Alimentacion Panama Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores Comerciantes en Marcadors y Anexos Peru Union de Trabajadores de Galletas Sultana Puerto Rico Rhodesia Catering and Hotelworkers' Union Rhodesia 9,000 Working People's Union St Kitts Hotels, Catering and Entertainment Workers' Union Sierra Leone 1,400 Christian Transport, Commerce and Food Workers' Union Switzerland 800 Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores de la Alimentacion Venezuela
References