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General Confederation Of Labour (CGT)
General Confederation of Labour can mean one of the following labor unions: * Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) * Central General de Trabajadores (Dominican Republic), a trade union in the Dominican Republic * Central General de Trabajadores (Honduras), a trade union in Honduras * General Confederation of Labour of Luxembourg, a trade union federation in Luxembourg * General Confederation of Workers (Mexico) (Confederación General de Trabajadores), a Mexican trade union * General Confederation of Workers (Puerto Rico) (CGT) * General Confederation of Labour (Spain), (CGT) a Spanish anarchosyndicalist trade union * Confédération Générale du Travail, (CGT) one of the largest French confederations of trade unions * General Confederation of Labour (Argentina), the largest labor federation in Argentina * Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores, a Brazilian trade union * General Confederation of Labour (Portugal), a Portuguese trade union * Vietnam General Confederation of ...
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Labor Union
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 and Employee benefits, benefits, improving Work (human activity), working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The union representatives in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members through internal democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, bargains with the employer on behalf of its members, known as t ...
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Italian General Confederation Of Labour
The Italian General Confederation of Labour (, , CGIL ) is a national trade union centre in Italy. It was formed by an agreement between socialists, communists, and Christian democrats in the "Pact of Rome" of June 1944. In 1950, socialists and Christian democrats split forming Italian Labour Union, UIL and Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions, CISL, and since then the CGIL has been influenced by the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and until recent years by its political heirs: the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), the Democrats of the Left (DS) and currently the Democratic Party (Italy), Democratic Party (PD). It has been the most important Italian trade union since its creation. It has a membership of over 5.5 million. The CGIL is currently the second-largest trade union in Europe, after the German German Trade Union Confederation, DGB, which has over 6 million members. The CGIL is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Uni ...
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Central General De Trabajadores (Dominican Republic)
The Central General de Trabajadores (CGT) is a trade union centre in the Dominican Republic. It is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC; ; ; ) is the world's largest trade union federation. History The federation was formed on 1 November 2006 out of the merger of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) a .... References * Trade unions in the Dominican Republic International Trade Union Confederation {{Caribbean-trade-union-stub ...
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Central General De Trabajadores (Honduras)
The General Workers Central (; CGT), also known as the General Workers Confederation and the General Confederation of Labor, is a national trade union center in Honduras. It is traditionally associated with the National Party of Honduras. When, in January 2009 two Honduran factories (Hugger and VisionTex) that were part of Nike, Inc.'s supply chain went bankrupt and closed, the CGT of Honduras claimed that Nike bore some of the responsibility for providing terminal compensation, benefits and priority rehiring for 1,800 factory employees.Brand Responsibility Project Records
2004-2012.0.84 cubic feet (2 boxes) of textual materials plus 83.8 GB of digital files. The CGT is affiliated with the
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General Confederation Of Labour Of Luxembourg
The General Confederation of Labour of Luxembourg (, CGT-L) is a trade union federation in Luxembourg. The federation was established in 1927, on the initiative of unions representing railway and metal workers in Luxembourg. By the 1970s, its largest affiliate was the Luxembourg Workers' Union, which attempted to form a single general union for all workers. It became the Independent Luxembourg Trade Union Confederation (OGBL), but with many unions deciding not to merge into it, the CGT-L remained in existence. The CGT-L operates as a loose umbrella organisation, and shares much of its leadership with the OGBL. As the largest and most representative trade union federation in the country, it is affiliated to the European Trade Union Confederation, and the International Trade Union Confederation. The number of affiliates of the CGT-L has declined, as a series of mergers have taken place. In 2020, one of its two affiliates, the National Federation of Railway Workers, Transport Work ...
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General Confederation Of Workers (Mexico)
The Confederación General de Trabajadores (General Confederation of Workers, CGT) was a federation of labor unions in Mexico. It was founded in February 1921 by anarchists, syndicalists and others on the far left who opposed the more moderate, pro-government Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM). In particular, the founders of the CGT criticized the CROM's close relationship with the conservative American Federation of Labor (AFL). Unions split from the CROM, with 43 affiliating with the new CGT, but it was just a tenth the size of the CROM, with strength among textile workers. President Alvaro Obregón (1920-1924) favored the CROM, and his administration attempted to suppress the CGT. When Adolfo de la Huerta made a bid for the presidency in 1923 in an armed rebellion, some in the CGT supported him.Aguilar García, Javier. "Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM)" in ''Encyclopedia of Mexico''. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, pp. 295-96 Briefly after its formati ...
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General Confederation Of Workers (Puerto Rico)
The General Confederation of Workers (, CGT) was a union federation in Puerto Rico. The CGT was formed in March 1940 at a congress held in San Juan. The congress was attended by delegates from 42 unions, and it had an initial membership of 72,000. The small Puerto Rican Communist Party played a leading role in its development. One offshoot of the General Confederation of Workers is the similarly named General Confederation of Farmers. The CGT quickly surpassed the older Free Federation of Workers (FLT) as the largest union federation in Puerto Rico. It affiliated with the US Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1949, and like the CIO it organized workers based on industrial unionism Industrial unionism is a trade union organising method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union, regardless of skill or trade, thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in b .... As the CGT grew closer politically ...
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General Confederation Of Labour (Spain)
The General Confederation of Labour (; CGT) is a Spanish trade union federation. Formed as a faction of the National Confederation of Labour (CNT) during the Spanish transition to democracy, its support for participation in led it to split from the organisation, which prohibited participation. After losing a lengthy legal battle for the name, the pro-electoral faction renamed itself to the CGT and reorganised itself as an independent trade union center. By the 21st century, the CGT had become one of the largest trade unions in Spain, gaining more than 100,000 members and electing more than 7,000 representatives to works councils. It has gained a particularly strong influence in the automotive, telecommunication and transportation industries, which it has called to be brought under social ownership. Its support for self-determination put it in the leading role of organising the 2017 Catalan general strike and its support for feminism drove its participation in women's strike ...
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Confédération Générale Du Travail
The General Confederation of Labour (, , CGT) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It is the largest in terms of votes in the Labour Court elections (34.0% in the 2008 election), and second largest in terms of membership numbers. Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995–96 (it had more than doubled when François Mitterrand was elected president in 1981), before increasing today to between 700,000 and 720,000 members, slightly fewer than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT). According to the historian M. Dreyfus, the direction of the CGT is slowly evolving, since the 1990s, during which it cut all organic links with the French Communist Party (PCF), in favour of a more moderate stance. The CGT is concentrating its attention, in particular since the 1995 general strikes in France, 1995 general strikes, to trade-unionism in the priva ...
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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 ...
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Confederação Geral Dos Trabalhadores
The Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores (General Confederation of Workers, CGT) is the second-largest federation of labor unions in Brazil. Founded in 1986, the CGT is close to the centrist 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). References * External links 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 ...
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General Confederation Of Labour (Portugal)
The General Confederation of Labour (; CGT) was a Portuguese trade union confederation. Established in 1919, as the successor to the National Workers' Union (UON), the CGT was the only national trade union centre in Portugal throughout the early 1920s. The organisation was led largely by anarcho-syndicalists, who declared the CGT to be independent of all political parties and proclaimed its goal to be the abolition of capitalism and the state. Opposed to Bolshevism, it refused to join the Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) and instead joined the International Workers' Association (IWA), which was aligned with anarcho-syndicalism. An internal schism between the syndicalist leadership and members of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) followed, as unions aligned with the latter broke off from the CGT. Following the establishment of a military dictatorship in Portugal, the CGT led a workers' uprising against it, but they were defeated, the organisation banned and many o ...
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