1978 Spanish trade union representative elections

Elections of trade union representatives were held across Spain in the first months of 1978.[1] These were the first democratic union elections in 40 years.[2] According to the state news agency EFE, elections were held in 29,918 companies for a total of 124,579 representative posts during the first three months of 1978 (these figures did however exclude the two largest companies in the country, the railways RENFE and Telefonica).[3] The newly elected company committees (comités de empresa) replaced the former jurados de empresa of the Franco era as the recognized employees' representatives.[4]

  1. ^ Domínguez, Justo, and Angel Zaragoza. Pactos sociales, sindicatos y patronal en España. Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno, 1988. pp. 79-80
  2. ^ Espuny Tomás, María Jesús, Olga Paz Torres, and F. Pérez Amorós. El proyecto de Ley de acción sindical en la empresa de 1978. Bellaterra (Barcelona): Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions, 2006. p. 34
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  4. ^ Köhler, Holm-Detlev. El movimiento sindical en España: transición democrática, regionalismo, modernización económica. Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 1995. p. 131