The General Confederation of Labor (Spanish: ''Confederación General del Trabajo'', CGT) is a Spanish trade union federation.
The CGT was a result of a split in the anarchist
National Confederation of Labor
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(CNT). In 1979, at the first CNT congress after
Spain's transition to democracy, there was a fundamental disagreement concerning union elections. Such elections allow Spanish workers to elect union delegates to factory committees every four years. Some deemed this a renewal of
anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism is a political philosophy and anarchist school of thought that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and thus control influence in ...
, but the more orthodox in the organization considered such elections a "government intervention in labor–capital relations". Moreover, this would involve receiving state funding. The two factions split and there were two CNTs. They fought over ownership of the name ''CNT''. In 1989, the orthodox CNT prevailed in court and the renovators took the name ''CGT''.
The CGT has since participated in union elections since 1989, receiving the fourth most votes behind
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 ...
, the
UGT, and the
CSIF. It has 100,000 members, as of 2018.
[Pascual 2018.]
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Official website
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National trade union centers of Spain
Syndicalism
Anarchist organisations in Spain
Trade unions established in 1979
Syndicalist trade unions