Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CTP)

The Confederation of Peruvian Workers (Confederación de Trabajadores Peruanos, or CTP) is a group of labor unions controlled by the Aprista Party in Peru. It developed from the initial formation of the Federation of Sugar Workers (FTA), organized in northern coastal Peru during the regime of President Bustamante y Rivero (1945–1948). At the time, the Aprista Party had considerable official influence. However, under the regime of General Manuel Odría, stern military enemy of the Apristas, the CTP began to lose union affiliations to the Communist-controlled General Confederation of Peruvian Workers (CGTP). By 1968 the CTP's influence on Peruvian unions had been largely supplanted by the CGTP. During the military regime (1968–1980), the CTP lost even more leverage, in part due to its opposition to the military. Although in 1985 and again in 2006 Peruvians elected Alan García of APRA to the presidency, the CTP's role remains relatively diminished. However, the CTP played a part when it joined with the CGTP and CUT in agreeing to support a new Peruvian labor code that includes measures like collective bargaining.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

James Payne, Labor and Politics in Peru (1965).

Peter Klarén, Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo (1973).

Additional Bibliography

Alexander, Robert Jackson, with Eldon M. Parker. A History of Organized Labor in Peru and Ecuador. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.

Pareja Pflucker, Piedad. Aprismo y sindicalismo en el Perú, 1943–1948. Lima: Ediciones Perú, 1980.

Parker, D. S. The Idea of the Middle Class: White-Collar Workers and Peruvian Society, 1900–1950. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Villanueva, Armando, interviewed by Guillermo Thorndike. La gran persecución, 1932–1956. Lima: Empresa Periodística Nacional, 2004.

                                      Alfonso W. Quiroz