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Special Achievements
- Sharan Burrow AC is the first woman to become General Secretary of the ITUC since its foundation in 2006, and was the second woman to become President of the ACTU.
- 2000: Sharan Burrow became the first woman President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) Asia Pacific Region.
- 2004: Became the first female ICFTU President
- 2006: Became the first woman President of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) - the world’s peak labour union body representing 181 million workers in 163 countries and territories and has 340 national affiliates)
- 2010: First woman elected General Secretary of the ITUC (re-elected 2014).
- 2000-2010: Sharan was also the second woman to become President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).
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Sharan was educated at the University of New South Wales. After teaching for some years, she took a more active role in the Teachers Federation. She became Vice-President and then Federal President of the Australian Education Union in 1996-7.
Resources
Image - Sharan Burrow
Image courtesy of Sharan Burrow, NPWHF collection
Link - Sharan Burrow: General Secretary
CONFÉDÉRATION SYNDICALE INTERNATIONALE
Link - Sharan Burrow, Vice Chair, the B Team
The B Team
Image - Sharan Burrow at the World Economic forum 2013
Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Brussels; Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability gestures at the Open forum interactive session 'Unemployed or Unemployable?' at the Swiss alpine high school (SAMD) at Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2013.
Copyright by World Economic Forum.
Link - Sharan Burrow: The world must change
Investment Magazine article by Elizabeth Fry
