According to Trotsky some months after the Third Congress of Trade Unions, it was impossible to have a dispute between the government and trade unions. He declared that the government only protected the workers. Any union that said otherwise was reorganized by the use of military force, thereby eliminating the conflict. Here is a new "Marxism" even though historians cite Trotsky as one of the few true Marxists in the new Soviet regime.
As early as 1920, Leon Trotsky stood firm on his belief that trade unions and the Soviet government could have conflicting interests. With that being the case as far as Trotsky was concerned, the trade unions needed to be educated on this crucial point. Trotsky saw the problems that workers were having with the Soviet government and to help solve them, he proposed a "shake up" so to speak of unions and union members who disagreed with Trotsky. Here we see how the early beliefs of Trotsky were changed once he and the Bolsheviks came into power. Early on in his career, he pushed for the protection of the workers' trade unions. Later, once in power he reversed his position. In exile, he reverted to his original idea about government suppression of the workers.
Congress of Irish Unions was created in 1945.
Congress of Irish Unions ended in 1959.
Leo Trotsky did inform the trade unions about the use of military force against workers in the 1920s.
Zambia Congress of Trade Unions was created in 1965.
Malawi Congress of Trade Unions was created in 1964.
Irish Congress of Trade Unions was created in 1959.
Lesotho Congress of Democratic Unions was created in 2004-05.
Congress of South African Trade Unions was created in 1985.
Congress of Democratic Trade Unions - Quebec - was created in 1972.
The AFL-CIO is a federation of different unions in the US. Member unions include factory worker unions and government employee unions.
After Trotsky asserted that there could be no conflict between the trade unions and the government, Lenin sought a "compromise" of sorts between the government and the Mensheviks. He asserted that both positions were in error because a workers state had not yet been created. What this meant of course was the revolution was not complete and trade unions were not yet in compliance with the new social order. Under such circumstances, War Communism was necessary to move toward the workers state.