(, Basque for "Nationalist Workers' Committees") is a Basque
left-wing nationalist
Left-wing nationalism or leftist nationalism, also known as social nationalism, is a form of nationalism based upon national self-determination, popular sovereignty, national self-interest, and left-wing political positions such as social equali ...
and
separatist
Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...
trade union operating mainly in Spain currently led by
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.
It was created in 1974 by
Jon Idigoras
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".Basque National Liberation Movement, an aggregation of leftist
Basque nationalist
Basque nationalism ( eu, eusko abertzaletasuna ; es, nacionalismo vasco; french: nationalisme basque) is a form of nationalism that asserts that Basques, an ethnic group indigenous to the western Pyrenees, are a nation and promotes the polit ...
forces including the illegal paramilitary organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) and the illegal parties Batasuna and Segi. It is supported by around 45.000 affiliates.
The union is legal and it is one of the four major of its kind in the Basque Country. In the last decades it has been working mostly with the other nationalist union,
ELA
Ela or ELA may refer to:
Companies and organizations
* Basque Workers' Solidarity (Basque: '), a trade union
* Earth Liberation Army
* ELA Aviación, a Spanish aircraft manufacturer
* English Lacrosse Association
* Equatorial Launch Australia, ...
, while both have been opposed often by the Spanish-wide trade unions, UGT and
CC.OO.
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 d ...
, that make up their own bloc.
In 2019 it had the 19.1% of the labor delegates in the Basque Autonomous Community, being the second biggest union after the also left-wing and abertzale
Basque Workers' Solidarity
Basque Workers' Solidarity (in Basque: ''Eusko Langileen Alkartasuna'' (ELA), in Spanish: ''Solidaridad de Trabajadores Vascos'' (STV)) is the most influential trade union in Basque Country, having been created, as ''Solidaridad de Obreros Vasc ...
Navarre
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...
the union has similar results, with a total of 1054 labour delegates, the 16.95% of the total, being the fourth largest union after UGT,
ELA
Ela or ELA may refer to:
Companies and organizations
* Basque Workers' Solidarity (Basque: '), a trade union
* Earth Liberation Army
* ELA Aviación, a Spanish aircraft manufacturer
* English Lacrosse Association
* Equatorial Launch Australia, ...
and Workers' Commissions.«UGT cierra 2019 como primer sindicato, seguido de CCOO, ELA y LAB, el que más crece» ''Noticias de Navarra''. 11 de febrero de 2020.