Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International


The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International was a global union federation bringing together unions of communications workers worldwide.

History

While a meeting of unions of communication workers was held in Paris in 1911, no lasting organisation was established until 1920, when the PTTI was founded at a meeting in Milan. Initially, the federation consisted entirely of European unions, but after World War II, it expanded worldwide, and by 1994 had four million members.
By 1997, new forms of communication had grown in importance, and the federation renamed itself as the Communications International. At the end of 1999, it merged with the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional and Technical Employees, the International Graphical Federation, and the Media and Entertainment International, to form Union Network International.

Affiliates

In 1998, the following unions were affiliated:
UnionCountryAffiliated membership
AbvaKaboNetherlands25481
All Ceylon Telecom Services UnionSri Lanka1817
All Japan Postal Labour UnionJapan75000
All Pakistan RMS Employees Union Pakistan2000
American Postal Workers UnionUnited States244000
Antigua Workers' UnionAntigua500
Asociación Salvadoreña de Trabajadores de la Administración Nacional de TelecomunicacionesEl Salvador1000
Bahamas Communications & Public Officers' UnionBahamas1123
Bahamas Communications and Public Managers UnionBahamas258
Bahamas Public Services UnionBahamas400
Bangladesh Post Office UnionBangladesh2000
Bangladesh Postmen and Lower Grade Staff UnionBangladesh30000
Bangladesh T&T Employees' & Workers' Ideal Federal UnionBangladesh5328
Bangladesh Telezogazoge Sramik Karmachari ParishadBangladesh7968
Barbados Workers' UnionBarbados1200
Belize Telecommunication Workers UnionBelize209
Bermuda Industrial UnionBermuda298
Bermuda Public Services AssociationBermuda331
Botswana Postal Services Workers' UnionBotswana379
Botswana Telecommunications Employees UnionBotswana907
Buklod ng Manggagawa sa RCPI National Federation of LabourPhilippines1040
Cable & Wireless Ltd Staff AssociationHong Kong1027
Canadian Union of Postal WorkersCanada44890
Centrale Générale des Services Publics Secteur PostesBelgium14940
Centrale Générale des Services Publics Secteur TélécomBelgium8600
Chinese Federation of Postal WorkersTaiwan26814
Chinese Telecommunication Workers' UnionTaiwan17500
Civil and Public Services UnionIreland1700
Clerical and Commercial Workers' UnionGuyana100
Comité Nacional Unico de Telecomunicaciones del EcuadorEcuador3000
Commercial, Technical & Allied Workers' UnionSt Vincent220
Communication & Public Sector UnionAustralia13802
Communication and Transport Workers UnionTanzania6500
Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of AustraliaAustralia68640
Communication Managers' AssociationUnited Kingdom13999
Communication Managers' UnionIreland1025
Communication Workers of the PhilippinesPhilippines15300
Communication Workers' UnionIreland16100
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of CanadaCanada22290
Communications Workers of AmericaUnited States400000
Communication Workers UnionSouth Africa40000
Communication Workers UnionTrinidad and Tobago1785
Communication Workers UnionUnited Kingdom274820
Communications Workers Union of TUCGhana5000
Confederación Sindical de Trabajadores en Radio y TV de BoliviaBolivia1100
Cyprus-Turkish Telecommunications Employees UnionCyprus275
Dansk Post- og GiroforeningDenmark5199
Danish Postal UnionDenmark11764
Den Norske PostorganisasjonNorway11274
Eastern Telecom Employees UnionPhilippinesUnknown
EBS Werknemers Organisatie " OWOS"Surinam500
Estonian Post and Telecommunciations Workers Trade UnionEstonia4642
Facket för Service och KommunikationSweden58520
Federação Interestadual dos Empregados da Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos e Similares de Comunicaçôes dos Estados de São Paulo, Minas Gerais e BahiaBrazil630
Federação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Empresas de Radiodifusão e TelevisãoBrazil15000
Federação Nacional dos Trabalhadores em Empresas de Telecomunicações e Operadores de Mesas TelefonicasBrazil5400
Federación Argentina de Trabajadores de Luz y FuerzaArgentina32000
Federación de Comunicación y TransporteSpain10224
Federación de Obreros y Empleados de Correos y TelecomunicacionesArgentina25000
Federación de Obreros y Especialistas y Empleados de los Servicios e Industria de las TelecomunicacionesArgentina23000
Federacion de Trabajadores de Comunicaciones Eléctricas y Afines de PanamaPanama1300
Federación de Trabajadores de la cpt-Telefonica del PeruPeru1500
Federación de Trabajadores de Telecomunicaciones de VenezuelaVenezuela13000
Federación de Trabajadores Telefonicos de Cuba en el ExilioCuba1605
Federación Enrique Schmidt CuadraNicaragua2000
Federación Nacional de Empleados de Comunicaciones Eléctrico-PostalesCosta Rica3486
Federación Nacional de Empleados y Trabajadores Postales del EcuadorEcuador750
Federación Nacional de Sindicatos de la Compañía de Teléfonos de ChileChile5100
Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de AASANABolivia1000
Federacion Nacional de Trabajadores de Electricidad del PerúPeru800
Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de Luz, Fuerza y TelefonosBolivia1000
Federación Nacional de Trabajadores de Radio, Teatro, Cine y Televisión y Afines de VenezuelaVenezuela2943
Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Eléctricos y Afines de ChileChile3200
Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Postales de BoliviaBolivia1200
Federación Sindical de Trabajadores de la Empresa ENTEL BoliviaBolivia1800
Federacion Uruguaya de Funcionarios PostalesUruguay800
Fédération Démocratique Unifiée des Travailleurs des PTT - CFDTFrance41790
Fédération des Employés des Postes HelléniquesGreece7000
Fédération des PTT "Podkrepa"Bulgaria2000
Fédération des Syndicats de la "Poste Roumaine"Romania10500
Fédération des Syndicats Rom TélécomRomania18000
Fédération Nationale des Postes et TélécommunicationsMauritania400
Fédération Nationale des Postes et Télécommunications - UMTMorocco8000
Federation of National Postal OrganisationsIndia125000
Federation of National Telecommunications OrganisationsIndia100000
Federation of Semi-Government EmployeesCyprus850
Federation of Telecommunications, Electronic Information and Allied WorkersJapan30000
Federation of Workers in Greek TelecommunicationsGreece20007
Fédération syndicale nationale des PTTGuinea1000
Fédération Syndicaliste des Facteurs des Postes et Télécommunications du Grand-Duché du LuxembourgLuxemburg1225
Federazione Italiana Sindacati TelecomunicazioniItaly10000
Félag Islanzkra SimamannaIceland854
FETRA-TVChile1500
Fiji Post and Telecoms Employees AssociationFiji1144
Fiji Public Service AssociationFiji200
Free Pancyprian Organisation of Telecommunications EmployeesCyprus1800
General Trade Union of Communication WorkersEgypt60000
General Trade Union of Postal WorkersEgypt2500
General Trade Union of PTT WorkersSudan8818
General Workers' UnionMalta1690
German Postal UnionGermany479418
Gewerkschaft PTT UnionSwitzerland20855
Ghana Electronic Servicing Technicians AssociationGhana1200
Government Servants' AssociationMauritius700
Grenada Technical & Allied Workers' UnionGrenada316
Guyana Public Service UnionGuyana580
Haber-is SendikasiTurkey4500
Handels- og Kontorfunktionaerernes Forbund i DanmarkDenmark1585
Hong Kong Telephone Co. Ltd Staff AssociationHong Kong2401
Hungarian Union of Telecommunications SectorHungary8613
Japan Postal Workers' UnionJapan150000
Japan Telecommunications Workers' UnionJapan208000
Kokusai Denshin Denwa Workers' UnionJapan3900
Kommunikasjons- og Teletilsattes LandsforbundNorway2515
Korean Communications Workers' UnionSouth Korea26804
Korean Federation of Communications Trade UnionsSouth Korea2950
Korean Telecommunications Trade UnionSouth Korea45000
Lithuanian Communication Workers Trade UnionLithuania9200
Metalworkers' UnionFinland2100
Mongolian Postal Workers UnionMongolia350
Montserrat Allied Workers' UnionMontserrat221
National Association of Letter CarriersUnited States200000
National Organisation of Postal EmployeesPakistan12000
National Postal Mail Handlers UnionUnited States47450
National Union of Communication WorkersZambia5000
National Union of Government Employees, PTT SectionIsrael10000
National Union of P & T EmployeesNigeria20000
National Union of Public WorkersBarbados250
National Union of Telecoms EmployeesMalaysia12000
Nepal Telecommunication Corporation Workers UnionNepal2208
Norsk PostforbundNorway12865
NZ Engineering Printing and Manufacturing UnionNew Zealand5000
Oversesas Telecoms Employees UnionSri Lanka190
Pakistan Telecommunication Staff UnionPakistan6000
Pakistan Telecommunication UnionPakistan4563
Papua New Guinea Post and Telecommunication Workers UnionNew Guinea1600
Personalverband der BundesverwaltungSwitzerland1390
Philcom Employees UnionPhilippines171
Pos Malaysia Berhad Clerical Staff Union, SarawakMalaysia260
Post and Telecommunication Workers Trade UnionLatvia11300
Post Office Administrative Staff AssociationMauritius60
Postal Employees Union of the PhilippinesPhilippines250
Postal Officers' UnionFinland5437
Postal Trade UnionHungary24300
Postal UnionFinland19133
Postal Workers' AssociationPhilippines5000
Póstmannafélag IslandsIceland1002
Precision Electrical and Related Equipment Senior Staff AssociationNigeria404
Public Employees Association of Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea884
Public Service Association of Western SamoaWestern Samoa116
Public Service Executive UnionIreland600
Public Service Union of BelizeBelize90
Radio Nepal Employees AssociationNepal272
Schweizerischer PosthalterverbandSwitzerland2484
Sekretariat Lacznosci - SolidarnoscPoland19000
Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government-Owned CompaniesNigeria5020
Sierra Leone Postal Services Ltd. Senior Staff AssociationSierra Leone45
Sierra Leone Union of Postal & Telecommunications EmployeesSierra Leone1300
Sindacato Lavoratori della ComunicazioneItaly25500
Sindacato Lavoratori PostelegrafoniciItaly60000
Sindicato Argentino de TelevisiónArgentina3616
Sindicato de Correos, Telégrafos y Caja PostalSpain11000
Sindicato de Funcionarios Postales del ParaguayParaguay435
Sindicato de la Industria Eléctrica de El SalvadorEl Salvador562
Sindicato de Luz y Fuerza de la República de GuatemalaGuatemala800
Sindicato de Telefonistas de la República MexicanaMexico44000
Sindicato de Teléfonos - UGTSpain14225
Sindicato de Trabajadores de CorreosGuatemala1200
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Administración Nacional de ElectricidadParaguay400
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Empresa Guatemalteca de TelecomunicacionesGuatemala1000
Sindicato de Trabajadores de TelecomunicacionesParaguay2700
Sindicato de Trabajadores de Telecomunicaciones de HondurasHonduras3000
Sindicato de Trabajadores del Instituto de Recursos Hidraúlicos y ElectrificaciónPanama3700
Sindicato de Trabajadores del Servicio Postal de HondurasHonduras700
Sindicato Democratico dos Trabalhadores das Telecomunicaçôes e CorreiosPortugal6037
Sindicato dos Correios e Telecomunicações de São Tomé e PríncipeSão Tomé and Principe131
Sindicato dos Electricitarios de Sao PauloBrazil25000
Sindicato dos Trabalhadores de aviacao Civil, Correios e ComunicacoesMozambique257
Sindicato dos Trabalhadores em Empresas de Telecomunicações e Operadores de Mesas Telefónicas no Estado de São PauloBrazil9736
Sindicato dos Transportes Comunicações e TurismoCape Verde442
Sindicato Interempresa Nacional de Trabajadores de ENDESA y filialesChile2560
Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de de la Radio y la TelevisiónParaguay1250
Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Empresa de Correos de ChileChile4089
Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores del Servicio Postal MexicanoMexico5100
Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores Postales SINTRAPOSTALColombia2300
Sindicato Nacional dos Trabalhadores das Telecomunicaçoes e audiovisualPortugal7490
Sindicato Nacional dos Trabalhadores dos Transportes e ComunicaçõesGuinea-Bissau436
Sindicato Nacional Interempresa de la Empresa Telex-Chile y FilialesChile1150
Sindicato Unico de Trabajadores de la Compania Peruana de RadiodifusionPeru200
Sindikata e e Punonjesve Poste-TelecomAlbania2017
Sindikato di Trahadonan den Telekomunikashon di KorsouCuracao410
Sociedad Unión de Carteros y Empleados Postales de El SalvadorEl Salvador70
Society of Telecom ExecutivesUnited Kingdom17430
Solidaridad de Trabajadores VascosSpain500
Specialarbejderforbundet i DanmarkDenmark6309
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Public Service UnionSt Vincent46
StatstjänstemannaförbundetSweden10050
Steel and Engineering Workers Union of NigeriaNigeria1500
Svenska IndustritjänstemannaförbundetSweden11236
Swaziland P&T Workers' UnionSwaziland568
Swedish Federation of Lawyers, Social Scientists & EconomistsSweden1100
Syndicat Autonome des PostesCentral African Republic727
Syndicat Autonome du Personnel de la SOCATELCentral African Republic550
Syndicat des Agents des PostesRwanda300
Syndicat des Agents des TélécommunicationsRwanda600
Syndicat des P & TLuxemburg995
Syndicat des Télécommunications du SénégalSenegal1004
Syndicat des Travailleurs de l'Audio-Visuel du BéninBenin300
Syndicat des Travailleurs des Postes et TélécommunicationsBurundi750
Syndicat libre des Travailleurs des Secteurs des Postes et Télécommunications du CongoRepublic of the Congo800
Syndicat National des Postes et TélecommunicationsCôte d'Ivoire2298
Syndicat National des Postes et TélécommunicationsMauritania400
Syndicat National des Postes et TélécommunicationsBurkina Faso700
Syndicat National des Postes et TélécommunicationsGabon1500
Syndicat National des Postes et TélécommunicationsBenin1540
Syndicat National des Postes et Télécommunications et TIMMali1926
Syndicat National des Postes, Télécommunications et des Télécommunications InternationalesChad500
Syndicat National des TélécommunicationsChad300
Syndicat National des Travailleurs des Postes et des TélécommunicationsSenegal2800
Syndicat National des Travailleurs des Postes et Télécommunications du NigerNiger490
Tele- og DataforbundetNorway10587
Telecommunication Officers' UnionSri Lanka700
Telecommunication Workers' UnionMauritius517
Telecommunications Employees' AssociationFiji219
Telecommunications Workers UnionCanada10695
Telegraaf en Telefoon Werknemers Organisatie SurinameSurinam1050
Telecommunications UnionDenmark11477
Telephone Organisation of Thailand State Enterprise Employees AssociationThailand9545
Telephone Shilpa Sangstha Workers and Employees UnionBangladesh550
The Guyana Postal & Telecommunication Workers’ UnionGuyana1080
The St Lucia Civil Service AssociationSt Lucia350
The State Enterprise Association of the Communication Authority of ThailandThailand7000
The Telephone Industries of Pakistan and Workers FederationPakistan2600
Trade Union Federation of PTT WorkersFrance45182
Trinidad and Tobago Postal Workers UnionTrinidad and Tobago780
Uganda Posts & Telecommunications Employees' UnionUganda2000
Unie van Werknemers in het Water, Gas- en ElectriciteitsbedrijfCuracao400
Union Nationale des Travailleurs du Zaïre Fédération Nationale des PTTDemocratic Republic of the Congo7500
Union of Communication WorkersSlovakia22083
Union of Communication WorkersCzech Republic51700
Union of Hong Kong Post Office EmployeesHong Kong1380
Union of Pos Malaysia Berhad Clerical WorkersMalaysia3243
Union of Post & Telecommunication OfficersSri Lanka4678
Union of Post Office WorkersMauritius163
Union of Postal Communications EmployeesCanada2554
Union of Postal and Telecommunications WorkersAustria43800
Union of Postal Employees PASYDYCyprus350
Union of Postal Uniformed StaffMalaysia4504
Union of Postal Uniformed Staff SarawakMalaysia289
Union of Posts & Telecommunications EmployeesKenya9999
Union of Sabah Postal Uniformed StaffMalaysia123
Union of Telecoms Employees Malaysia1950
Union of Telecoms Employees of SingaporeSingapore6059
Unione Italiana Lavoratori PostelegrafoniciItaly13000
Unione Italiana Lavoratori TelecomunicazioniItaly5300
Verband Schweizerischer PostbeamterSwitzerland5318
Verband Schweizerischer Telefon- and TelegrafenbeamterSwitzerland4017
Waterfront and Allied Workers' UnionDominica95
Zimbabwe Posts and Telecommunications Workers' UnionZimbabwe6703

Leadership

General Secretaries

Presidents