General Union of Workers (Portugal)

The União Geral de Trabalhadores (UGT, dt: General Workers' Federation ) is a Portuguese Trade Union Confederation. The UGT is close to the Social Democratic Socialist Party of Portugal. It is named after the CGTP the second largest union in the country, and heard as at the European Trade Union Confederation. The UGT has its headquarters in Lisbon and is represented nationally.

  • 3.1 Individual Members
  • 3.2 affiliates

History

After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, the CGTP began to emerge as a single union. A minority within the CGTP fell since 1976 increasingly in conflict with the communist-oriented majority. She founded the Movimento platform Autónomo de Intervenção Sindical - Carta Aberta (English about: Independent Trade Union Movement - Open Letter ), with which she spoke out for independent unions instead of a single union for all workers in Portugal.

After the Constitution of Portugal had laid down from 1976 the principle of free trade unionism, 1977, the pluralism enshrined in the area of ​​trade unions with the reformulated Trade Union Act. On the CGTP Congress in the same year it came then to split off. While the left wing of the Socialist trade unionists, the Catholic trade unionists and left trade union groups remained together with the communist-oriented majority in the CGTP, decided those who were close to the Socialist Party and the conservative Social Democratic Party, to establish their own trade union federation, the later UGT. The CGTP however, changed his name to Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses - Intersindical Nacional ( CGTP -IN) (English about: General merger of the Portuguese Workers - National Confederation of Trade Unions ).

On 28 and 29 October 1978, at the hall of cinema Cinema Lumiar, in the municipality of Lisbon Lumiar, took 47 individual unions ( eight of them with observer status), the Declaration of Principles and the Statutes of the União Geral de Trabalhadores - UGT to. The UGT was founded with it, and its first ordinary congress was set for 29 and 30 January 1979 in Porto.

Structure

The UGT has its registered office in Avenida Almirante Gago Coutinho in Lisbon. It maintains various departments and groups, and it is involved in further education and training initiatives.

Regions

The UGT is organized throughout the territory into 20 districts, called Uniões:

  • UGT Azores
  • UGT Algarve
  • UGT Aveiro
  • UGT Beja
  • UGT Braga
  • UGT Bragança
  • UGT Castelo Branco
  • UGT Coimbra
  • UGT Évora
  • UGT Guarda
  • UGT Leiria
  • UGT Lisbon
  • UGT Madeira
  • UGT Porto
  • UGT Portalegre
  • UGT Santarem
  • UGT Setúbal
  • UGT Viana do Castelo
  • UGT Vila Real
  • UGT Viseu

Women's organization

1984 Comissão de Mulheres Trabalhadoras founded in the UGT UGT since ( COMTRA, dt about: Committee working women UGT ). Following the Constitution as Organização de Mulheres da UGT (German: women's organization of the UGT ) 1986, it was as Comissão de Mulheres (German: Women's Committee ) after VI. Congress of the UGT in 1988 included in the statutes of the union.

It is committed to equal treatment of women in all aspects of professional life, but also within the organizational structures of the UGT.

Youth organization

The union youth Comissão de Juventude da UGT (German: Youth Committee of the UGT, CJ / UGT) has increased particularly since the euro crisis in the wake of the banking and financial crisis starting in 2007 their activities significantly. Reason is the sharp rise in youth unemployment in Portugal: in the first quarter of 2013 42% of the working age people aged up to 24 years were unemployed. The CJ / UGT organized in the context of protests, organized trainings, conducts information sessions, including

Members

Individual members

The UGT with its 55 single and sub- unions had 478,000 members in late 2012, broken down as follows among the different sectors:

As a result of rising unemployment in Portugal, membership has continued sinking. Thus the UGT has lost since 2008 42.000 members. A slight increase in number of its members in the public sector stood by significant disposals over in all other areas.

Affiliates

In the UGT trade unions organized the following:

  • ANTF - Associação Nacional dos Treinadores de Futebol ( soccer coach - union )
  • BANCA DOS CASINOS - Sindicato dos Profissionais de Banca casinos (Union of casino employees)
  • SBC - Sindicato dos Bancarios do Centro (bank employees union of the middle region )
  • SBN - Sindicato dos Bancarios do Norte (bank employees union in the Northern Region )
  • SBSI - Sindicato dos Bancarios do Sul e Ilhas (bank employees union of the Southern Region and the island regions)
  • SDPA - Sindicato dos Democrático Professores dos Açores ( teachers' union of the Azores )
  • SE - Sindicato dos Enfermeiros ( nurses union )
  • SE - Sindicato dos Economistas (Union of Economists )
  • SEMM - Sindicato dos Marinha Mercante Engenheiros ( Union of Engineers of the Merchant Navy )
  • Setaa - Sindicato da Agricultura, Alimentação e Florestas (Union Agriculture, Food and Forestry )
  • SETACCOP - Sindicato da Construção, Obras Públicas e Serviços (Union Building, Public Buildings and Services )
  • SINAFE - Sindicato Nacional ferroviarios do Movimento e Afins ( Railway Union )
  • SINAPE - Sindicato Nacional dos Profissionais da Educação ( trade union of education professionals)
  • SINCOMAR - Sindicato dos Capitães da Marinha Mercante oficiais (Union of captains in the merchant navy officer )
  • SINDAV - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Democrático dos Portos e Aero Aviação (Union of airport and air employees)
  • SINDCES - Sindicato Democrático do Comércio, ESCRITORIOS e Serviços ( Union of Retail, offices and services)
  • SINDEFER - Sindicato Nacional da Democrático ferrovia (Union of infrastructure railroaders )
  • SINDEL - Sindicato Nacional da Indústria e da Energia ( Industry and Energy Union )
  • SINDEP - Sindicato Nacional dos e Democrático Professores ( teachers' union )
  • SINDEPESCAS - Sindicato Democrático the Pescas ( Fisherman's Union )
  • SINDEQ - Sindicato Democrático da Energia, Química, Têxteis e Indústrias Diversas ( union power, chemical, textile and miscellaneous industries )
  • SINDESCOM - Sindicato dos Profissionais de Escritório, Comércio, Indústria, Turismo, Serviços e Correlativos das Ilhas de S. Miguel and Santa Maria (Union of office, retail, industrial, tourism and related employees of the islands of São Miguel and Santa Maria)
  • SINDETELCO - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Democrático the Comunicações e dos Média (Union of communications and media staff )
  • SINDITE - Sindicato dos Técnicos Superiores de Diagnóstico e Terapeutica (Union of officers in diagnosis and therapy)
  • SINFA - Sindicato Nacional de ferroviarios e Afins ( union of railway workers and comparable workers )
  • SINFESE - Sindicato Nacional dos ferroviarios Administrativos, de Serviços Técnicos e ( Railway Union in the management, technology and services employees)
  • SINTABA / AÇORES - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores Agro- Alimentares da Região Autónoma dos Açores (Union of agricultural and food processing industry workers in the Azores )
  • SINTAP - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores because Administração Pública e de Entidades com Fins Públicos (Union of administrative employees in the civil service and in public facilities )
  • SINTICAVS - Sindicato Nac. Trot. Ind. Cerâmicas, Cimento, Abrasivos, Vidro e Similares ( Union of Workers of ceramic, cement, abrasives, glass and related industries )
  • SISEP - Sindicato dos Profissionais de Seguros de Portugal (Union of Insurance Employees)
  • Sitema - Sindicato dos Técnicos de Manutenção Aeronaves ( Union of Employees of aircraft maintenance )
  • SITEMAQ - Sindicato da da Marinha Mercante Mestrança e Marinhagem, Energia e Fogueiros de Terra (Union of teachers and Shipping Master, the energy, boiler operator and fireman of the Merchant Navy )
  • SITESC - Sindicato dos Quadros Técnicos Administrativos, Serviços e Novas Tecnologias ( union of public administration clerks and employees in services and new technologies)
  • SITESE - Sindicato dos Técnicos de Serviços e Trabalhadores ( union of service workers and specialist staff )
  • SITRA - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores dos Transportes ( Transport Workers Union )
  • SMAV - Sindicato dos Meios Audiovisuais (Union Audiovisual Media )
  • SMMCMM - Sindicato da Mestrança e Marinhagem de da Marinha Mercante Câmaras (Union of teachers and Shipping Master of the Merchant Navy )
  • SNATTI - Sindicato Nacional das Actividades Turísticas Tradutores e Intérpretes ( tourism, translators and interpreters union )
  • SNEET - Sindicato Nacional dos Engenheiros, Engenheiros Técnicos e Arquitectos ( Union of Engineers and Architects )
  • SNPVAC - Sindicato Nacional do Pessoal de Voo da Aviação Civil ( airline Civil Aviation )
  • SOEMMM - Sindicato dos oficiais e Engenheiros da Marinha Mercante Maquinistas (Union of officers and engineers in the merchant navy )
  • SPZC - Sindicato dos Professores as Zona Centro ( teachers' union of the area in the middle)
  • SPZN - Sindicato dos Professores as Zona Norte ( Northern Teachers' Union of the area )
  • SQAC - Sindicato dos Quadros da Aviação Comercial (Union of staff of aircraft industry )
  • STAS - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores because Actividade Segura Dora (Union of Insurance Workers)
  • STE - Sindicato dos Quadros Técnicos do Estado e de Entidades com Fins Públicos ( union of technology personnel of the state and public institutions)
  • STECAH - Sindicato dos Trabalhadores de Escritório e Comércio de Angra do Heroismo (Union of office and commercial workers of Angra do Heroismo )
  • STVSIH - Sindicato dos Técnicos Vendas do Sul e Ilhas (Union of salesperson south and islands)
  • UGT / PESCAS - Sindicato Nacional dos Trabalhadores do the Pescas Sector ( Workers' Union of the fisheries sector )
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