- Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura
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CONTAG Full name National Confederation of Agricultural Workers Native name Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura Founded December 22, 1963 Country Brazil Key people Alberto Ercílio Broch, president Office location Brasília, Brazil Website www.contag.org.br Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura (National Confederation of Agricultural Workers, CONTAG) is the largest federation of agricultural workers' labor unions in Brazil. It represents 20 million rural workers in 27 associations and around 4 thousand unions.
The CONTAG was founded on December 22, 1963 in Rio de Janeiro. At the time there were 14 associations and 475 rural workers' unions. With the 1964 military coup, the federation and its unions were taken over by the government. Many union leaders were imprisoned or forced into exile. However, by 1968 the organization began to act independently and encouraged the formation of rural unions and federations in Brazil. The number of rural unions grew from 625 in 1968 to 2144 in 1980.
References
- Boris Fausto (2006). A Concise History of Brazil. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0300080077.
- Riordan Roett (1999). Brazil: politics in a patrimonial society. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0275959007.
External links
Categories:- Trade unions in Brazil
- National federations of trade unions
- Agriculture and forestry trade unions
- Organizations established in 1963
- South American trade union stubs
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