# Basque Workers' Solidarity

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Trade union in Spain

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ELA Basque Workers' Solidarity Eusko Langileen Alkartasuna Founded 1911 Headquarters Bilbao Location Spain Members Members: 105,312[1] Labor delegates/representatives: 7,049 (40.44%) in the Basque Autonomous Community[2] and 1,359 (22.74%) in Navarre.[3] Key people José Miguel Leunda Etxeberria, president José Elorrieta Aurrekoetxea, secretary general Affiliations ITUC, ETUC Website https://www.ela.eus/en

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

## History

ELA-STV publication from 1971

It was opposed to the influence of trade unions who appealed to a [working class](/source/Working_class) [ethos](/source/Ethos) ([Socialist](/source/Socialist) [UGT](/source/Uni%C3%B3n_General_de_Trabajadores) and [Anarchist](/source/Anarchist) [CNT](/source/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo)), advocating instead a [Basque nationalist](/source/Basque_nationalism) outlook. Initially, ELA-STV was centered on projects of [mutual assistance](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutual_assistance&action=edit&redlink=1) between its affiliates, as a vehicle for [social security](/source/Social_security). It expanded with much more success in [Gipuzkoa](/source/Guip%C3%BAzcoa) and [Biscay](/source/Biscay) than in [Navarre](/source/Navarre) and [Álava](/source/%C3%81lava).

ELA-STV was caught in the fighting of the [Spanish Civil War](/source/Spanish_Civil_War), and banned by the [Francoist State](/source/Francoist_State). It reemerged in 1976, during the [transition to democracy](/source/Spanish_transition_to_democracy). Today, it has over 105,000 members.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

In the 70's ELA abandoned its original [social-christian](/source/Christian_democracy) ideology in favour of more [socialist](/source/Socialism) positions, recognizing the importance and validity of the [class struggle](/source/Class_struggle), breaking with the [Basque Nationalist Party](/source/Basque_Nationalist_Party) (EAJ/PNV) and approaching [LAB](/source/LAB_(Basque_union)), a union within the [abertzale left](/source/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 [Basque](/source/Basque_people) national and [class union](/source/Working_class), independent from all political parties, open to all workers of [Euskal Herria](/source/Euskal_Herria), with economic independence (funding only through membership fees, and not accepting public money), incompatibility of positions, confederal basis, creating a common [strike fund](/source/Strike_fund), international solidarity, etc. This line will be ratified and will gain further in the coming Congress. During the transition, ELA opposed the [Moncloa Pacts](/source/Moncloa_Pacts). The pro-[PNV](/source/Basque_Nationalist_Party) and anti-socialist wing of the union split and formed [Eusko Langillen Alkartasuna (Askatuta) – Solidaridad de Trabajadores Vascos (Independiente)](/source/Eusko_Langillen_Alkartasuna_(Askatuta)_%E2%80%93_Solidaridad_de_Trabajadores_Vascos_(Independiente)) (ELA (a)-STV (i)), which would disappear in 1990.

## Strike fund

ELA's strike fund is unusual in Spanish unionism. Only [USO](/source/Uni%C3%B3n_Sindical_Obrera) 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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [2012](http://www.ela.eus/es/actualidad/noticias/ela-cuenta-con-105.312-afiliados-y-afiliadas)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [ELA copa cuatro de cada diez delegados sindicales vascos](http://www.elmundo.es/pais-vasco/2017/04/30/59063824e5fdeaeb2e8b45ae.html). El Mundo, 30/04/2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [ELA se aproxima a UGT y CCOO, que ya no suman el 50% de la representatividad](http://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/2017/01/27/economia/ela-se-aproxima-a-ugt-y-ccoo-que-ya-no-suman-el-50-de-la-representatividad) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170927155514/http://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/2017/01/27/economia/ela-se-aproxima-a-ugt-y-ccoo-que-ya-no-suman-el-50-de-la-representatividad) 2017-09-27 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine). Noticias de Navarra, 27/01/2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Efemerideak"](http://www.euskonews.com/0036zbk/efem3601.html).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ElDiario_5-0)** Guenaga, Aitor (10 February 2018). ["Y 38 años después, la Hacienda vizcaína descubre la 'caja de resistencia' de ELA"](https://www.eldiario.es/euskadi/euskadi/hacienda-bizkaia-investiga-sindicatos-caja-de-resistencia-ela-diputacion-euskadi_1_2799464.html). *ElDiario.es* (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2022.

## External links

- [Organized labour portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Organized_labour)

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