PROP

Project to strengthen the urban labor union movement in Paraguay by helping the Confederacion Paraguaya de Trabajadores (CPT), the country's major trade union organization, to strengthen existing unions, form new unions and federations, and establish a coordinated structure of unions, federations, and confederations. The project will be implemented by the American Institute for Free Labor Development (AIFLD). AIFLD will help the CPT to increase membership significantly in its affiliated federations of textile, transport, and maritime workers (the banking sector, the fourth sector affiliated with CPT, being already almost completely unionized) and to organize at least one new federation. AIFLD will also provide four levels of training: a basic trade union course for the membership at large; training of 40 instructors to teach the basic course; a 4-week residential course for 40 union leaders; and short-term U.S. training in advanced educational and leadership techniques for six leaders. Since the overwhelming majority of CPT leaders are also members of the ruling Colorado party, AIFLD will maintain a cordial relationship with the government while at the same time working with all

Source: DEC abstract, PD-ABH-754 (1971). The source's own text.