''União Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola'' ('General Union of the Workers of Angola', abbreviated UGTA) was an Angolan trade union organization in exile. UGTA was founded in 1964 following a split away from

Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola ''Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola'' ('General League of Angolan Workers', abbreviated LGTA) was an Angolan trade union organization in exile. Being based amongst Angolan refugees in neighbouring Congo-Kinshasa, LGTA was linked to the Nati ...

(LGTA), and was linked to the Council of the Angolan People (CPA, a small

Kinshasa Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...

-based political movement).Mielke, Siegfried.
Internationales Gewerkschaftshandbuch
'. Opladen: Laske + Budrich, 1983. pp. 205-206 UGTA would later become aligned with UNITA. UGTA was founded by the former LGTA leader Andre Martins-Kassinda.Marcum, John A.
The Angolan Revolution. Vol. 2, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976)
'. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1978. p. 393 As of December 1966 Paul Bing was the UGTA chairman, Bernardo Domingos the vice president, André Kassinda general secretary, Carlos Manuel Pacheco assistant general secretary and Mauricio Luvualu secretary for international relations.Marcum, John A.
The Angolan Revolution. Vol. 2, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976)
'. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1978. p. 368 UGTA was affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions and the

All-African Trade Union Federation The All-African Trade Union Federation (AATUF) was a Pan-African trade union organisation, formed in November 1959 on the initiative of president Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. The secretary of AATUF was Amadou N'diaye. The assistant secretary general ...

. UGTA joined hands with ''

Federação Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Angola ''Federação Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Angola'' ('National Federation of Workers of Angola', abbreviated FNTA) was a small Angolan trade union organization in exile, based in Kinshasa. FNTA was founded in mid-1964 by dissidents from UNTA.Mie ...

'' and the ''

Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola ''Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola'' ('General Confederation of the Workers of Angola', abbreviated CGTA) was a Catholic Angolan trade union organization in exile. CGTA was founded in 1962.Coldrick, A. P. and Philip Jones. The in ...

'' in denouncing the UNTA-led coalition CUACSA, following a CUACSA statement denouncing the other Kinshasa-based unions. In 1971 the then UGTA general secretary, Mauricio Luvualu, was handed over to the Portuguese by the Kinshasa government. Luvualu was sentenced to forced labour. Upon his release in 1974 he founded a new trade union movement, ''

Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Angola ''Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Angola'' ('National Confederation of the Workers of Angola', abbreviated CNTA) was an Angolan trade union organization. CNTA was founded by Mauricio Luvualu in Luanda in 1974.Coldrick, A. P., and A. ...

'' (CNTA). UGTA merged with the CNTA at a congress held April 24–25, 1975, forming the '' Sindicato Angolano dos Camponeses e Operários'' (SINDACO). The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions was represented at the event.Coldrick, A. P., and A. Philip Jones.
The International Directory of the Trade Union Movement
'. New York: Facts on File, 1979. p. 258
International trade union news
'. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1975. p. 22

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