The Andorran Workers' Union is a

trade union A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

in the Principality of

Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a Sovereignty, sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, Andorra–France border, bordered by France to the north and Spain to A ...

. It was established in 1990, and claimed several hundred members. It was the first workers union in Andorra, the only European country in which the formation of this type of group was not allowed to be established, and it was intended to improve the

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and

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of the Andorran

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. It was the first union in Andorra. The government also did not allow it to legally form. It had gradually become inactive, but it was reestablished in 2021. The constitution of the union professed an ideology of autonomous trade unionism. Since the

General Council of Andorra The General Council (, ) is the unicameral parliament of Andorra. It is sometimes referred to as the General Council of the Valleys (Catalan: ''Consell General de les Valls'') because it was the historical name and to distinguish it from sim ...

considered the union illegal, it secretly set up a management committee on 14 June 1988. The union's founding congress was held on March 8, 1990. Present were the secretary general of the

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, and vice-president of the ETUC; Nicolás Redondo, the leader of the

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; Marcelino Camacho, and, the secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation; Matias Hintercheid. The first executive committee was formed on Antoni Roig as general secretary, Guillem Fornieles i Alacid as organization secretary, Cristian Cerdoya as international relations secretary, Dídac Subirats as press secretary and Josep Lluís Santos as trade union action secretary, in addition to four other national secretaries. Guillem Fornieles i Alacid had presided as the leader of the organisation from 2019, or before, until he retired in 2021. After being revived, it is being led by Christian Asensio. It had good relations with the Unió Sindical d'Andorra, and the Podemos, until it was first dissolved in 2021.

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* * {{Portal, Organized labour Trade unions in Andorra Trade unions established in 1990