General Confederation of Labour (Argentina)
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| Full name | General Confederation of Labor of the Argentine Republic |
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| Native name | Confederación General del Trabajo de la República Argentina |
| Founded | September 27, 1930 |
| Members | 3,000,000 |
| Head union | Carlos Acuña Héctor Daer Juan Carlos Schmidt |
| Affiliation | ITUC |
| Office location | Azopardo 802 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Country | Argentina |
| Website | www.cgtra.org.ar |
The General Confederation of Labor of the Argentine Republic (in Spanish: Confederación General del Trabajo de la República Argentina, CGT) is a national trade union federation in Argentina founded on September 27, 1930, as the result of the merger of the USA (Unión Sindical Argentina) and the COA (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.
The CGT was founded on September 27, 1930, the result of an agreement between the Socialist Confederación Obrera Argentina (COA) and the Revolutionary Syndicalist Unión Sindical Argentina (USA), which had succeeded to the FORA IX (Argentine Regional Workers' Federation, Ninth Congress); smaller, Communist-led unions later joined the CGT as well. The COA, which included the two unions covering rail transport in Argentina (Unión Ferroviaria and La Fraternidad), was the larger of the two with 100,000 members; the USA, which included, telephone, port, tramway, and public sector unions, represented 15,000.
During the Infamous Decade of the 1930s and subsequent industrial development, the CGT began to form itself as a strong union, competing with the historically anarchist FORA V (Argentine Regional Workers' Federation, Fifth Congress). Centered initially around the railroad industry, the CGT was headed in the 1930s by Luis Cerruti and José Domenech (Unión Ferroviaria); Ángel Borlenghi (Confederación General de Empleados de Comercio); and Francisco Pérez Leirós (Unión de Obreros Municipales). The CGT became the Argentine affiliate of the International Federation of Trade Unions (an organization that both USA and COA had been members of for shorter periods).
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