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CC.OO. sticker. The Workers' Commissions (Spanish: Comisiones Obreras, CCOO) since the 1970s has become the largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members, and is the most successful union in labor elections, competing with the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), which is historically affiliated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and with the anarcho ...
The Unión de Trabajadores por Cuenta Propia (UTCP, Union of Self-Employed Workers) is not an organism of UGT. It is a bottom-up association, formed by the farmers' union UPA and the professional and autonomous workers' union, UPTA, who united in this manner to enhance their representation inside the Union and to form a united front on factional issues where they have common interests.
Thus, the Spanish labor movement had a preponderance of anarchist sectors, as opposed to the socialist preponderance of most of the rest of Europe. "In Spain, the International was founded first as a simple appendix of Bakunin's secret society, the Alliance, which was to serve as a kind of recruiting base and, at the same time, as a lever to ...
The Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) (National Confederation of Labor) is a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union confederation.. Founded in 1910 in Barcelona from groups brought together by the trade union Solidaridad Obrera, it significantly expanded the role of anarchism in Spain, which can be traced to the creation of the Spanish chapter of the IWA in 1870 and its successor ...
General Confederation of Labour (Spain), (CGT) a Spanish anarchosyndicalist trade union; Confédération Générale du Travail, (CGT) one of the largest French confederations of trade unions; General Confederation of Labour (Argentina), the largest labor federation in Argentina; Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores, a Brazilian trade union
The major exception was the emergence of unions of public school teachers in the largest cities; they formed the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), affiliated with the AFL. In suburbs and small cities, the National Education Association (NEA) became active, but it insisted it was not a labor union but a professional organization. [11]
The Confederation of Workers of the Republic of Panama (Spanish: Confederación de Trabajadores de la República de Panamá, CTRP) is a national trade union center located in Panama. It has a claimed membership of 35,000 and is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation.
Agrarian Trade Union Federation; Andalusian Workers' Union; Central Sindical Independiente y de Funcionarios (CSIF) Coordinadora Obrera Sindical (COS) Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG) Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera; Euskal Langileen ...