Pancyprian Federation of Labour

Infobox Union
name= PEO
country= Cyprus
affiliation= WFTU
members= 68,100
full_name= Pancyprian Federation of Labour
native_name= Παγκύπρια Εργατική Ομοσπονδία


founded= 1941
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office= Nicosia, Cyprus
people= Pambis Kyritsis, general secretary
website= [http://peo.org.cy peo.org.cy]
footnotes= PEO, the Pancyprian Federation of Labour ( _el. Παγκύπρια Εργατική Ομοσπονδία), is an umbrella organization for trade unions in Cyprus.

It was instrumental in the 1948 strikes in the mines of the Cyprus Mines Corporation and has been closely related to AKEL.

When AKEL was declared illegal by the British colonial government of Cyprus in 1955, PEO and especially its leader Andreas Ziartides was the only legal leftwing political entity and it was expressing the politics of underground AKEL.

PEO had a membership from all ethnic groups in Cyprus. In 1958 the Turkish Cypriot nationalistic organisation TMT launched a terror campaign against Turkish Cypriot members of PEO, killing the journalist Fazil Onder and attempting to kill the head of PEO's Turkish bureau, Ahmet Sadi. Following those events, most Turkish Cypriots left the union, and PEO's members since then have primarily been Greek Cypriots.

The PEO is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions.

References

*cite book
year = 2005
title = Trade Unions of the World
editor = ICTUR et al,
edition = 6th
publisher = John Harper Publishing
location = London, UK
id = ISBN 0-9543811-5-7

External links

* [http://peo.org.cy peo.org.cy]