Central dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras do Brasil

www.ctb.org.br

Central of Male and Female Workers of Brazil (CTB) was founded in a National Congress of Trade Unions held on December 12-14, 2007 in Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais State with the participation of 1,300 trade union leaders from almost all the Brazilian States and representing more than 500 organisations.

The CTB is the result of an initiative on the part of trade unionists from different schools of thought and independent leaders as well. At its creation, the CTB already had a significant representation in the private and public sectors, with membership in main rural workers´ federations and unions and a prominent presence in the metallurgical, maritime, trade, construction, education, urban, transportation, services, finance, civil services, and postal industries.

Today, it is one of the most representative trade union centrals of Latin America, being the third largest in the country according to the Ministry of Labour with about of 1200 affiliated entities.