Ettehadiyeh-ye Sendika-ye Kargaran-e Iran | |
اتحادیه سندیکای کارگران ایران | |
Merged into | Iranian Trade Union Congress |
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Founded | September 1946 |
Dissolved | 1951 |
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Members | 75,000 (claim, December 1947) |
Key people | Mehdi Sharif-Emami, Khosrow Hedayat |
Affiliations | ICFTU |
Ettehadiyeh-ye Sendika-ye Kargaran-e Iran (Persian: اتحادیه سندیکای کارگران ایران, known by its acronym 'اسکی', ESKI) was a trade union centre in Iran. It was founded on the initiative of the Ministry of Labour and Propaganda in September 1946, with the explicit purpose of competing with the Tudeh-led Central United Council of the Trade Unions of Workers and Toilers of Iran (CUC).[1] The task of setting up ESKI had been delegated to Mehdi Sharif-Emami, the director of the Dispute Settlement Department of the Ministry of Labour and Propaganda.[2] ESKI published the newspaper Kargaran-e Iran.[3] ESKI was a founding member of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.[4]