The Ecuador Confederation of Free Trade Union Organizations (CEOSL) is a trade union

Trade union

A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

 centre in Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

. CEOSL was founded on May 1, 1962, inspired by North America

North America

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n trade unions. It later distanced itself from its North American sponsors during the 1980s and 1990s, though. As of 2006 CEOSL organized 984 trade unions, 18.32% of the total number of unions in the country.

CEOSL is a member of the Frente Unitario de los Trabajadores

Frente Unitario de los Trabajadores

The Frente Unitario de Trabajadores is a central organizing body for the main trade union centres in Ecuador.In 1980 FUT was formed by the unification of Confederación Ecuatoriana de Organizaciones Clasistas Unitarias de Trabajadores , Ecuador Confederation of Free Trade Union Organizations , and...

, an umbrella organization for Ecuadorian trade unions.