Agustín Moreno García

Agustín Moreno García (Madrid, November 10, 1951) is a Spanish trade unionist, former leader of Workers' Commissions (CC.OO.).

Biography

He was prosecuted three times during the Franco regime for his union militancy and was Confederal Secretary of Trade Union Action from 1976 to 1996. Since the retirement of Marcelino Camacho in 1987 he was one of the candidates for his succession along with Antonio Gutiérrez and Julián Ariza. In the end, Moreno refused to accept the position, - as Marcelino Camacho would later reveal - and Gutiérrez took charge of the union.

Agustín Moreno was secretary of Trade Union Action of CCOO from its legalization in 1977 until 1996. After his departure from this responsibility he was the organizer of the Critical Sector which currently groups around 23% of CCOO although his presence is much stronger in some territories such as Asturias, La Rioja or Seville and federations such as Transport and Pensioners and Retirees, becoming a majority in some large companies such as Renfe and until recently Telefónica. In his youth he stood against the fascist system of the time.

The Critical Sector was characterized by repeatedly questioning more or less controversial decisions taken by the confederal majority of the union for what they understood to be a rightward movement in the line of union action with respect to the original CCOO, in which decision-making took place in an assembly manner so that due to the composition of their militancy they were frequently close to the central tenets of the Communist Party of Spain. In this way, the Critical Sector opposed from within the union the labor reforms that the CCOO and UGT managements have signed with the successive PSOE and PP governments since the 1990s.

Moreno was a member of the Confederal Executive Commission until 2008 and has competed on several occasions for the general secretaryship, first with Antonio Gutiérrez and then with José María Fidalgo, in successive CCOO confederal congresses. He was publicly invited by the former to leave CCOO to facilitate unity within the union . However, in the VIII Confederal Congress (April 21 to 24, 2004), he obtained 30% of the votes for his candidacy for general secretary.

A graduate in History and an industrial teacher, he worked as a secondary school teacher specializing in Social Sciences until his retirement at the beginning of 2018. At his farewell to the classrooms he was applauded by his students.

During the 2011-2012 academic year he actively participated in the Green Tide mobilizations in Madrid.

He has been a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and was a member of its Federal Committee.

In 2021 he was elected deputy in the Madrid Assembly for Unidas Podemos.