Trade unions

This file relates to labour in Kuwait. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Annual labour report for Kuwait
• Kuwaiti press comment on the Kuwait Government’s attitude to trade unions
• Report on social, industrial and labour developments in Kuwait by the British Labour Attaché in HM Embassy in Beirut R L Morris
• Discussions between Morris and the American Labour Attaché J P Condon at the US Embassy in Beirut on labour in the Middle East, including in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; lists of trade unions in Kuwait and various federations of workers; and comments from the Kuwait Embassy on the issue of admitting Palestinians to the unions
• Federation of existing trade unions in Kuwait to form the General Federation of Labour in Kuwait; and its eventual recognition by the Kuwaiti Minister for Social Affairs
• The visit of the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation to Kuwait