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]
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