Marcelino Camacho
Marcelino Camacho | |
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Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 13 July 1977 – 10 February 1981 | |
| Constituency | Madrid |
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| Born | January 21, 1918 Deputy |
Marcelino Camacho Abad (January 21, 1918 – October 29, 2010) was a Spanish
Early life
Born the son of a unionized signalman in the village of Osma,
Military career
During the
In 1944 Camacho, along with other prisoners, managed to escape to Oran (in French Algeria), where there was an active colony of Spanish exiles. There he joined the local cell of the Spanish Unified Socialist Youth, where he met his wife Josefina Samper.[1] He was trained as a mill operator, and joined the General Confederation of Labour.
Political life
In 1957, he returned to Spain with his family and started working in the
In 1976, Marcelino Camacho was elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, and shortly after that he was elected the first Secretary-General of CCOO.
During his tenure as General Secretary of CCOO, Camacho oversaw the support of the union to the
As a deputy he represented the Communist Parliamentary Group in labor issues, most importantly leading the group's rejection of the code of labor. In 1981, Camacho resigned his seat in Congress to dedicate himself to his trade union position.
In 1987, Camacho was succeeded by Antonio Gutierrez as Secretary General of CCOO, remaining as Honorary President for the next nine years.
Retirement
After his retirement Camacho remained active in politics and trade unionism as a member of the Confederal Council of CCOO and of the Central Committee of the PCE, as well as the Federal Council of United Left, until just a few years before his death. He died in 2010 in Madrid.[4]
References
- ^ a b "Biografia de Marcelino Camacho". biografiasyvidas.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ Rusiñol, P (14 December 2008). "Fidalgo no es de izquierdas". Público.es (in Spanish). Madrid: Mediapubli Sociedad de Publicaciones y Ediciones S.L. Archived from the original on 7 March 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ "Marcelino Camacho, digno homenaje compartido por la USO". Unión Sindical Obrera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
- ^ "Fallece Marcelino Camacho, el padre del sindicalismo moderno español". elpais.es (in Spanish). Madrid: Grupo PRISA (Promotora de Informaciones, Sociedad Anónima. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
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