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Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association

Antiguan and Barbudan trade union

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ2410347 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association (ABPSA) is a national Trade union of Antigua and Barbuda. First recognized in the 1980s, the ABPSA is a small organization with competition from other unions in the public service sector.

See also

List of trade unions

References

ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World 6th Ed. John Harper Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9543811-5-8.

External links

www.icftu.org entry in ITUC address book.

Editorial summary

“Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association” enters the record as antiguan and Barbudan trade union. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antigua, Barbuda and Public can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antigua, Barbuda and Public.
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“Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Antigua, Barbuda and Public provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2410347. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.