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Trade Unions In Argentina
Trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation. The largest trade union association, the Confederación General del Trabajo has been a force since the 1930s, and approximately 40% of workers in the formal economy are unionized. The FORA The Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) was created in 1901. It split in 1915 between the FORA IX (of the Ninth Congress) and the FORA V (of the 5th Congress), the latter supporting an anarcho-syndicalist stance. In January 1919, the FORA notably called for demonstrations after police repression, during the Tragic Week, while it latter organized protests in Patagonia, which led to harsh repression by Hipólito Yrigoyen's administration (the disturbances were known as '' Patagonia rebelde''). Following the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and the founding of the Profintern, the Argentine Syndicates' Union (USA) was created in March 1922. Although more radical than FORA IX, the USA di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Confederation Of Labour (Argentina)
The General Confederation of Labor (in Spanish language, Spanish: ''Confederación General del Trabajo'', CGT) is a Trade unions in Argentina, national trade union federation in Argentina founded on 27 September 1930, as the result of the merger of the U.S.A (''Unión Sindical Argentina'') and the C.O.A (''Confederación Obrera Argentina'') trade unions. Nearly one out of five employed – and two out of three unionized workers in Argentina – belong to the CGT, one of the largest labor federations in the world. It was founded in 1930 by socialists, communists and independents to generate a plural union central. It had a socialist majority until 1945 and Peronist since then. The CGT during the Infamous Decade The CGT was founded on 27 September 1930, the result of an agreement between the Socialist ''Confederación Obrera Argentina'' (COA) and the Syndicalism, Syndicalist ''Unión Sindical Argentina'' (USA), which had succeeded to the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation, FO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fascist
Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Opposed to communism, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and socialism, fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Fascism rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I, before spreading to other European countries, most notably Germany. Fascism also had adherents outside of Europe. Fascists saw World War I as a revolution that brought massive changes to the nature of war, society, the state, and technology. The advent of total war and the mass mobilization of so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Vandor
Augusto Timoteo Vandor (1923–1969) was an Argentine trade unionist leader, Argentine Navy, naval non-commissioned officer and Politics of Argentina, politician who Augusto Vandor#Assassination, was assassinated. Career Vandor was born in Bovril, Argentina, Bovril, Entre Ríos Province, to a Dutch people, Dutch father and a French Argentine, French mother, in 1923. He enlisted in the Argentine Navy in 1941, and later became a non-commissioned officer aboard the minesweeper Bouchard-class minesweeper, ARA ''Comodoro Py''. He left the Navy in 1947, however, and joined the new Philips factory in the Saavedra, Buenos Aires, Saavedra neighborhood of Buenos Aires. There, he met his future wife, and gained a reputation for strategic thinking that earned him the nickname of ''El Lobo'' (the Wolf). He became the steward of the Phillips factory w:es:Unión Obrera Metalúrgica, UOM local and in 1954, led a strike for better pay at the facility. Its success made him prominent in the UOM (t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
