Union federations and confederations

National and international bodies that unions affiliate to, which coordinate and speak for the labour movement. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Labour unions schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline: Labour unions v1
Inherited from: Labour unions
Mapped on the schema: 1 of 18 placed here
Primitives: 60 in 8 parts
Last updated: 3 Nov 2026

What the registry holds here

Union federations and confederations and below · public parts only

With public findings: 18
Public parts: 26
Distinct sources: 26
Last change: 2 Nov 2026

Organizations by public parts

Counts of what public research has found and sourced, each part with its source on the organization’s profile. They say what is known, not how much of the industry exists.

Deepen this industry

Focused research on the organizations with the fewest mapped parts in union federations and confederations; what it finds is public for everyone.

World Federation of Trade Unions1 part
International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations1 part
International Federation of Journalists1 part
International Transport Workers' Federation1 part
International Trade Union Confederation1 part

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60 primitives

Primitive	Part	Layer	Description	Parameters	Organizations
Workplace health and safety representation hse	Control: rules the organization runs under	Decisions	Safety representatives and the union's work on hazards at members' workplaces.	0	—
Financial disclosure reports financial_disclosure	Control: rules the organization runs under	Process	Annual reports of assets, receipts, officer pay and spending filed with labour authorities where required.	0	—
Union strategy strategy	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Where to organize, what to bargain for and which political goals to pursue.	0	1
Officers and conventions governance	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Elected officers, executive boards and the conventions that decide policy.	0	—
Union meetings cadence	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	Regular member, executive and steward meetings.	0	—
Bargaining and organizing reviews improvement	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	Learning from each campaign and bargaining round.	0	—
Strikes and industrial actionPremium industrial_action	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Included for Members	Members	Members
Officer elections officer_elections	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	Nominating and electing officers by secret ballot under the union's rules and the law.	0	—
Affiliations affiliations	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Membership of federations and international bodies, and the dues and votes that come with it.	0	—
Political programPremium political_program	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Included for Members	Members	Members

Organizations: how many of the 1 organizations mapped in public on Union federations and confederations and below have a sourced part on the primitive. Primitives are matched by key, so organizations on earlier versions count.

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60 primitives

Primitive	Part	Layer	Description	Parameters	Organizations
Workplace health and safety representation hse	Control: rules the organization runs under	Decisions	Safety representatives and the union's work on hazards at members' workplaces.	0	—
Financial disclosure reports financial_disclosure	Control: rules the organization runs under	Process	Annual reports of assets, receipts, officer pay and spending filed with labour authorities where required.	0	—
Union strategy strategy	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Where to organize, what to bargain for and which political goals to pursue.	0	1
Officers and conventions governance	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Elected officers, executive boards and the conventions that decide policy.	0	—
Union meetings cadence	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	Regular member, executive and steward meetings.	0	—
Bargaining and organizing reviews improvement	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	Learning from each campaign and bargaining round.	0	—
Strikes and industrial actionPremium industrial_action	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Included for Members	Members	Members
Officer elections officer_elections	Direction: deciding where it goes	Process	Nominating and electing officers by secret ballot under the union's rules and the law.	0	—
Affiliations affiliations	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Membership of federations and international bodies, and the dues and votes that come with it.	0	—
Political programPremium political_program	Direction: deciding where it goes	Decisions	Included for Members	Members	Members