Workers' Commissions
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Image:Ccoo02.jpg The Workers' Commissions (Spanish: Comisiones Obreras, CCOO) is, ever since the 1970s, the most important and largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members and is the most voted union in labor elections.
The CCOO were organized in the 1960s by the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and workers' Roman Catholic groups to fight against the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and for labor rights (in front of the non-representative "vertical unions" in the Spanish Trade Union Organisation). The various organization formed a single entity after a 1976 Congress in Barcelona.
Along with other unions as Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) and the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), it summoned a general strike in 1976, and carried out protests against the conditions in the country. Marcelino Camacho, a major figure of Spanish trade unionism and a PCE member, was CCOO's General Secretary from his foundation to 1985 - he was voted to the Congress of Deputies in the 1977 election.
Between 1985 and 1997, the union's General Secretary was Antonio Gutiérrez; he was followed by the current secretary, José María Fidalgo, very criticized by the left wing of the union. The CCOO and the UGT, summoned three general strikes (1988, 1992 and 1994) against the economic policy of the Felipe González's government, and one on June 20 2002, against the government of José María Aznar and its plan to reform the unemployment insurance system.
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