Dolors Bassa i Coll
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The Honourable Dolors Bassa i Coll |
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 Former Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Families |
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In office 14 January 2016 – 27 October 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Felip Puig and Neus Munté |
| Councilor of Torroella de Montgrí | |
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In office 2007–2015 |
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| General Secretary of Unión General de Trabajadores of Girona | |
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In office 2008–2015 |
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| Born | 1959 (age 58) Torroella de Montgrí, Catalonia, Spain |
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Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya Junts pel Sí |
| Alma mater |
University of Girona Open University of Catalonia |
| Profession | Teacher and psychopedagogist |
Dolors Bassa i Coll (born Torroella de Montgrí, 1959) is an educator, psychopedagogist and Catalan politician who held the position of Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Families from the Generalitat de Catalunya until 27 October 2017. She is renowned for her syndicalist career in the major Spanish trade union, Unión General de Trabajadores.
Bassa graduated in Education from the University of Girona in 1979 and later on, in 2007, she would obtain a licentiate degree in Psychopedagogy from the Open University of Catalonia. She worked as a Catalan language teacher in Palafrugell from 1979 to 1986 and in Torroella de Montgrí from 1986 to 2015.
As a politician she started her career as a Councilor of Torroella de Montgrí for the Republican Left of Catalonia from 2007 to 2015. Bassa was also a member of the Generalitat's Vocational Training Council between 2007 and 2013, and also served on the steering committee of the Labour Services of the Generalitat (SOC) between 2006 and 2014.
In 2000 she started her activities with the syndicate Unión General de Trabajadores, UGT. In 2008 she would be elected as a General Secretary of the UGT of Girona and would held the position until 2015.
During the 2015 Catalan regional election, Dolors Bassa was the sixth candidate of the pro-independence political party Junts pel Sí of Girona and was elected as a member of the Parliament of Catalonia.
On 13 January 2016 she received the offer of becoming the Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Families by the government of Carles Puigdemont. Dolors Bassa accepted the position the following day.
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