Spain

• Chapter 27 - Spain: challenges to legitimacy and representation in a context of fragmentation and neoliberal reform (from Collective bargaining in Europe: towards an endgame, volume III.)
• Background summary

• Key facts and institutions
• Collective bargaining news from Spain

• Main trade union confederations:
  • CCOO Trade Union Confederation of Workers' Commissions 
    (Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras)
  • UGT-E General Workers' Union - Spain 
    (Unión General de Trabajadores)
  • USO Workers' Union - Spain 
    (Unión Sindical Obrera)
  • ELA Basque Workers' Union 
    (Euskal Sindikatua)

• Trade union-related research institutes (members of the TURI network):
  • ISTAS Union Institute of Work, Environment and Health (Instituto Sindical de Trabajo)
  • Fundacion 1° de Mayo
  • Fundación Francisco Largo Caballero
• ETUI publications:
  • Book Rough waters. European trade unions in a time of crises – chapter Spain: a peripheral economy and a vulnerable trade union movement

Background summary

• An overview of pension reforms since 2011. Read more.

• Background summary
  • The right to strike is a fundamental right in the Spanish Constitution. The legal regulation of the right dates back to 1977 –it is a piece of legislation predating the Constitution itself-. Ever since, the Parliament has been unable to pass more updated legislation on the right to strike, due in part to a lack of consensus between the social partners. Read more.

• ETUI: Strikes in Europe: Spain