Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores

Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores ('Workers Revolutionary Confederation') is a trade union centre in Mexico. Mario Suárez has served as the general secretary of CRT for many years.^[1]

CRT was founded in 1954,^[2] by dissident unions of the Confederación Única de Trabajadores (CUT) that had not gone along with the merger of CUT into the Confederación Revolucionaria de Obreros y Campesinos (CROC).^[3][4] At the time of its founding, CRT rallied some six hundred unions in different parts of Mexico.^[4] CRT was affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).^[3] In 1955, Mexican authorities estimated its membership to 2,535, an low-end estimate.^[5]

As of 1960, its membership was estimated at 3,917 (0.6% of the total union membership in the country).^[6] In that year CRT joined the National Workers' Central (CNT), a coalition of different non-CTM/non-BUO labour groups.^[7]

CRT became a constituent of Congreso del Trabajo ('Labour Congress'), an apex body created in 1966 by various PRI-affiliated trade union organizations.^[8]

By the late 1980s CRT was estimated to have around 25,000 members, being one of the smallest trade union centres in the country at the time.^[9]

References

Organized labour portal

1. ^ Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 128
2. ^ Middlebrook, Kevin J. The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. p. 150
3. ^ ^{a b} Gutiérrez Garza, Esthela. Testimonios de la crisis. México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1985. p. 38
4. ^ ^{a b} La Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores, CRT
5. ^ Purcell, Susan Kaufman. The Mexican Profit-Sharing Decision: Politics in an Authoritarian Regime. Berkeley: Univ. of California P., 1975. p. 21
6. ^ Aziz Nassif, Alberto. El estado mexicano y la CTM. Ediciones de la Casa Chata, 32. México, D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1989. p. 318
7. ^ Aziz Nassif, Alberto. El estado mexicano y la CTM. Ediciones de la Casa Chata, 32. México, D.F.: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1989. p. 119
8. ^ Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 123
9. ^ Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 124