The General Labour Confederation of Belgium (Dutch: Belgisch Vakverbond, BVV; French: Confédération Générale du Travail de Belgique, CGTB) was a socialist national trade union federation in Belgium active between 1937 and 1944 when it was superseded by the General Labour Federation of Belgium.
The federation was established on 5 December 1937, as a replacement for the Trade Union Commission.
[2] After 1940, it briefly operated under the German occupation, with new leadership who disavowed class struggle, but was banned completely later in the year.
Some tried to operate underground, while some leaders formed the Belgian Trade Union Centre in London.
On 29 April 1945, with the occupation ended, the BVV was officially merged with the communist Belgian Federation of Unity Syndicates and the Unified Trade Unions, to form the General Labour Federation of Belgium.