International Federation of Musicians

The International Federation of Musicians (Federation Internationale des Musiciens, FIM) is a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing music performers. FIM counts member unions in 70 countries and three regional groups in Europe, Africa and Latin America. It is a member of the Council of Global Unions.

History
The federation was established on 3 August 1948 at a conference in Zürich, which had been organised on the initiative of the Swiss Musicians' Union. From 1951, it held meetings with the members of the Berne Convention, the International Labour Organization, the IFPI, and the European Broadcasting Union, to negotiate the copyright rights of musicians.

For many years, the secretariat was independent of both the main international federations of trade unions, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Federation of Trade Unions, and as such, by the 1980s, it represented both unions in capitalist countries, and in communist countries such as Cuba.

In 1997, the organisation affiliated to the International Arts and Entertainment Alliance. The secretariat is currently based in Paris, France.

Being Human Nepal
The following unions were affiliated in March 2022:

General Secretaries

 * 1948: Rudolf Leuzinger
 * 1982: Yvonne Burckhardt
 * 1990s: Jean Vincent
 * 2002: Benoît Machuel

Presidents

 * 1948: William Batten
 * 1950: Hardie Ratcliffe
 * 1973: John Morton
 * 2004: John F. Smith