Bustamante Industrial Trade Union

BITU
Bustamante Industrial Trade Union
Founded	1938
Headquarters	98-100 Duke Street, Kingston, Jamaica
Location	Jamaica, West Indies;
General Secretary	George Fyffe
President	Kavan A. Gayle
Senior Vice President	Wesley Nelson
Vice President	Alden Brown
Affiliations	JCTU, ILO, ITF, UNI, IUF

The Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU, also referred to as the Busta Union) is a trade union center in Jamaica established by Sir Alexander Bustamante. The BITU was formed in 1938, as a split from the Jamaica Workers and Tradesmen's Union.^[2] It built up a membership of 54,000 within 6 years.^[1] It is affiliated to the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Association.

Presidents

2007: Kavan Gayle^[4]

^ ^a ^b Knowles, William (1959). Trade Union Development and Industrial Relations in the British West Indies. University of California Press. pp. 71–72. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
^ Alexander, Robert J. (2004). A History of Organized Labor in the English-Speaking West Indies. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. ISBN 0275977439.
^ ^a ^b ^c "'Ruddy' Spencer gets Shearer's job". Jamaica Observer. 1 August 2004. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
^ Coke Lloyd, Jacqueline (12 November 2021). "Leadership: a journey". Daily Observer.

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