Basque Workers' Solidarity
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Basque Workers' Solidarity (in Basque: Eusko Langileen Alkartasuna (ELA), in Spanish: Solidaridad de Trabajadores Vascos (STV)) is the most influential trade union in Basque Country, having been created, as Solidaridad de Obreros Vascos, by members of the Basque Nationalist Party on June 10, 1911, in Bilbao.[4]
History

It was opposed to the influence of trade unions who appealed to a
.ELA-STV was caught in the fighting of the
In the 70's ELA abandoned its original social-christian ideology in favour of more socialist positions, recognizing the importance and validity of the class struggle, breaking with the Basque Nationalist Party and approaching LAB, a union within the abertzale left.
In the General Congress of 1976 ELA-STV approved the new principles and rules of the union, which will become its identity: ELA was a
Strike fund
ELA's strike fund is unusual in Spanish unionism. Only USO among the main Spanish unions provides one. According to ELA,[5] the fund received 13.7 million euros between 2008 and 2011, 15.1% of its expenses, and 19.1 M€ between 2012 and 2016 (16,24%).
References
- ^ 2012
- ^ ELA copa cuatro de cada diez delegados sindicales vascos. El Mundo, 30/04/2017.
- ^ ELA se aproxima a UGT y CCOO, que ya no suman el 50% de la representatividad Archived 2017-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Noticias de Navarra, 27/01/2017.
- ^ "Efemerideak".
- ^ Guenaga, Aitor (10 February 2018). "Y 38 años después, la Hacienda vizcaína descubre la 'caja de resistencia' de ELA". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2022.
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