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Uruguayan politician and trade unionist

Enrique Pastorino (6 March 1918 – January 1995) was a Uruguayan trade union leader and communist politician.

Born in Montevideo, Pastorino worked variously in the packaging industry and in agriculture, before finding work in a shoe factory. He joined the leather workers' union, becoming its general secretary in 1941, and the following year, he also joined the Communist Party of Uruguay (CPU). He was elected to the CPU's central committee in 1947, and its executive committee in 1950. The following year, he was given responsibility for leading on trade union work in the party. From 1951 to 1959, he served as a national deputy.

In 1946, Pastorino moved to work for the General Workers' Union, with responsibility for organisation, then became its general secretary in 1950. In 1961, he became the secretary of the Central Council of Workers of Uruguay, serving until 1966, when he became the secretary of the Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores – Convención Nacional de Trabajadores. Through his trade union work, he also became active in the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), becoming a vice-president in 1957, and president in 1969.

In 1973, Pastorino was awarded the International Lenin Prize. That year, he moved to Prague, due to the coup in Uruguay. He remained active in the WFTU, becoming its general secretary in 1978. He resigned from the post in 1980, without giving any explanation. In 1982, he was invited to attend the WFTU congress to be awarded a gold medal, but he did not do so, and he did not take his pension from the organisation.

References

^ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. 1979.
^ Mañana, Daniel. "Un imprescindible de la CNT: Enrique Pastorino". La Onda Digital. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
Mañana, Daniel. "Enrique Pastorino, y la Federación Sindical Mundial". La Onda Digital. Retrieved 20 March 2020.

Trade union offices
Preceded byRenato Bitossi	President of the World Federation of Trade Unions 1969–1978	Succeeded bySándor Gáspár
Preceded byPierre Gensous	General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions 1978–1980	Succeeded byIbrahim Zakaria

v t e World Federation of Trade Unions
General Secretaries	Louis Saillant (1945–1968) Pierre Gensous (1969–1978) Enrique Pastorino (1978–1980) Ibrahim Zakaria (1980–1990) Alexander Zharikov (1990–2005) George Mavrikos (2005–2022) Pambis Kyritsis (2022–present)
Presidents	Walter Citrine (1945–1946) Arthur Deakin (1946–1949) Giuseppe Di Vittorio (1949–1959) Agostino Novella (1959–1961) Renato Bitossi (1961–1969) Enrique Pastorino (1969–1975) Sándor Gáspár (1975–1989) Indrajit Gupta (1989–1990) Ibrahim Zakaria (1990–1994) Antonio Neto (1994–2000) K. L. Mahendra (2000–2005) Shaban Assouz (2005–2016) Mzwandile Makwayiba (2016–current)
Affiliated national centres	Bangladesh BTUC Bolivia COB Cuba CTC Greece PAME India AITUC – CITU Indonesia KASBI Iran Workers' House Japan Zenroren DPR Korea GFTUK Palestine GUPW Perú CGTP Spain Intersindical-CSC – CIG – LAB Senegal FGTS South Africa COSATU Sudan SWTUF Syria GFTU Vietnam VGCL
Affiliated unions	Guyana GAWU South Africa NEHAWU UK RMT
Trade Union Internationals	Agroalimentary, Food, Commerce, Textile and Allied Banks, Insurance and Financial Building, Wood, Building Materials and Allied Chemical, Energy, Metal, Oil and Allied Mining, Metallurgy and Metal Pensioners and Retired Persons Public Service and Allied Teachers Textile-Garment-Leather Tourism and Hotels Transport

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