General Confederation of Labour (Argentina)

General Confederation of Labor
Confederación General del Trabajo
AbbreviationCGT
PredecessorUnión Sindical Argentina
Confederación Obrera Argentina
FoundedSeptember 27, 1930
HeadquartersAzopardo 802
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Location
Members
7,000,000[1]
Key people
Carlos Acuña
Héctor Daer
Juan Carlos Schmidt
AffiliationsITUC
Websitehttps://cgtoficial.org/

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]

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.

  1. ^ "Thousands of Argentinian workers expected to protest Milei's budget cuts". France 24. 24 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Un paso más para avanzar con la democracia sindical". Miradas al Sur. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24.
  3. ^ "Mapa sindical: La CTA kirchnerista busca reincorporarse a la CGT". La Nación. 3 October 2019.