The Galician Unions Confederacy ( gl, italic=yes, Confederación Intersindical Galega, CIG) is a trade union in that was created after the merge of two previous unions: the INTG and the CXTG. It has a

Galician nationalist Galician nationalism is a form of nationalism found mostly in Galicia, which asserts that Galicians are a nation and that promotes the cultural unity of Galicians. The political movement referred to as modern Galician nationalism was born at t ...

and

socialist Socialism is a left-wing economic philosophy and movement encompassing a range of economic systems characterized by the dominance of social ownership of the means of production as opposed to private ownership. As a term, it describes the e ...

ideology and generally defends a combative labour model, as opposed to the perceived mild tactics of the other two main unions in Galicia,

CCOO The Workers' Commissions ( es, 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 ...

and the UGT. The union has organized 6 general strikes in Galicia since its creation. Currently the CIG has 4,480 labour delegates (28.28% of the total)A CIG xa é a primeira forza sindical en Galiza
Sermos Galiza, 29/06/2018. and more than 80,000 members, being the largest union in Galicia both in membership and delegates. File:Mani vigo CIG.jpg, CIG demonstration in Vigo File:LogoCIG.jpg, CIG logo File:Día do traballo. Santiago de Compostela 2009 29.jpg, CIG in the

International Workers' Day International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, ...

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ...

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