Confederation of Unitary Workers Unions

Confederation of Unitary Workers' Unions (CSUT) was a Spanish union with a Maoist ideology.

History

The CSUT was founded after the clandestine assembly of Workers' Commissions (CCOO) of July 1976 in Barcelona in which the elements closest to the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) promoted the legalization of said union to The authorities. Until then, CCOO had been a poorly cohesive and heterogeneous union movement that brought together almost all union opposition to Francoism. In this way, the Workers' Commissions faction close to the Spanish Labor Party (PTE) decides not to accept the hegemony of the PCE in the new union and split. The same would happen with the Unitary Union, close to the Revolutionary Organization of Workers (ORT).

Its general secretary was Jerónimo Lorente, a postal official.

In the 1978 union elections, it did not exceed 3% overall representation, although in some sectors its influence was important, such as in the Rural Workers' Union, the current precursor of the Andalusian Workers' Union (SAT) and in Post and Telegraph. However, in the 1980s its results were disastrous. After the virtual dissolution of the union at its second congress in 1981, some of its members joined the CGT.