Trade Unions of Spain: UGT, CCOO, & CGT

[Rêve Rouge]

Does anyone know the differences between these three trade unions in terms of tactics/ideology? The three unions I'm talking about are Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), and Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT).This is what I got from wiki so far:

UGT: Socialist
CCOO: Communist
CGT: Anarchist

It's pretty vague. I would go into more depth in my research, but unfortunately I can't read Spanish. I'm guessing the CCOO would want to replace the current state with a "worker's state", whereas the CGT would just want to get rid of the state all together. The UGT although, I'm not quite sure.

Any ideas?

[syndicat]

the Communist Party played the dominant role in creating the CCOO. in recent years it operates in a pact with the UGT and has lost what militancy if once had. other than a one day general strike last Sept 29, the union has failed to organize militancy to fight the cuts & growing austerity in Spain. it functions like a bureaucratic service agency union. in the fight over layoffs at SEAT in 2006...Catalonia's largest manufacturing concern...CCOO refused to back the CGT proposal for a strike to bloc the layoffs of 600 people. in that struggle the hundreds of comments on kaosenlared (an independent left radio on the net) most people regarded the UGT as a "company union"...completely unwilling to fight the company. UGT also works like a bureaucratic service union. the UGT is the official union of the neo-liberal PSOE...the social democratic party in Spain, which acts much like the Democrats in the USA.

When Delphi shut down its operation in Puerto Real in 2009, CCOO worked to sabotage the CGT efforts to propose a worker assembly & a plant occupation to fight the shutdown.

CGT is the largest of the three unions in Spain that claim the legacy of the historic CNT of the '30s. unlike the official CNT-AIT, the CGT participates in elections to the official bargaining councils. the CGT very often finds itself as the lone "no" vote to contracts negotiated by CCOO and UGT. Currently the 3 anarcho-syndicalist unions, CGT, CNT-AIT, and SO are in an allinace with CSC -- a Communist union that split off to the left of the CCOO. They are proposing another general strike to fight the social cuts and austerity in Spain.

the CGT and CNT-AIT supported the recent movement of occupations of the city squares in Spain...a spontaneous movement to fight the growing austerity and cuts. the CCOO and UGT did not support this movement.

altho CGT derives from the anarcho-syndicalist tradition, a person doesn't have to agree with anarchism to be a member. there are people of other ideologies, such as trotskyists and maoists, who belong. CGT has maybe 70,000 members whereas CCOO and UGT are ten times larger...around 750,000 members each. in Spain membership in unions is voluntary. they have the equivalent of a universal open shop.