The Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores (General Confederation of Workers, CGT) is the second-largest federation of

labor unions 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 ...

Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...

. Founded in 1986, the CGT is close to the

centrist Centrism is the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum. It is associated with moderate politics, including people who strongly support moderate policie ...

Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement The Brazilian Democratic Movement (, MDB) is a Brazilian political party. It is considered a " big tent party" and it is one of the parties with the greatest representation throughout the national territory, with the most numbers of senators, m ...

(PMDB).

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Official web site
International Trade Union Confederation National trade union centers of Brazil 1986 establishments in Brazil Trade unions established in 1986 Organisations based in São Paulo {{Brazil-org-stub