The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.

Spanish Syndical Organization

Trade union in Francoist Spain (1940–77)

The Spanish Syndical Organization, popularly known in Spain as the Sindicato Vertical, was the sole legal trade union for most of the Francoist dictatorship. A public-law entity created in 1940, the vertically-structured OSE was a core part of the project for frameworking the…