General Confederation of Labour (Argentina)
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The General Confederation of Labor (in Spanish: Confederación General del Trabajo, CGT) is a 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.[2]
Confederación General del Trabajo | |
Abbreviation | CGT |
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Predecessor | Unión Sindical Argentina Confederación Obrera Argentina |
Founded | September 27, 1930 |
Headquarters | Azopardo 802 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Location | |
Members | 7,000,000[1] |
Key people | Carlos Acuña Héctor Daer Juan Carlos Schmidt |
Affiliations | ITUC |
Website | https://cgtoficial.org/ |
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[3] since then.