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.
CRT was founded in 1954, 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). At the time of its founding, CRT rallied some six hundred unions in different parts of Mexico. CRT was affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In 1955, Mexican authorities estimated its membership to 2,535, a low-end estimate.
As of 1960, its membership was estimated at 3,917 (0.6% of the total union membership in the country). In that year CRT joined the National Workers' Central (CNT), a coalition of different non-CTM/non-BUO labour groups.
CRT became a constituent of Congreso del Trabajo ('Labour Congress'), an apex body created in 1966 by various PRI-affiliated trade union organizations.
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.
References
- Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 128
- Middlebrook, Kevin J. The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. p. 150
- ^ Gutiérrez Garza, Esthela. Testimonios de la crisis. México: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1985. p. 38
- ^ La Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores, CRT Archived 2010-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Purcell, Susan Kaufman. The Mexican Profit-Sharing Decision: Politics in an Authoritarian Regime. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. p. 21
- 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
- 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
- Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 123
- Grayson, George W. Prospects for Democracy in Mexico. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.: Transaction Publishers, 1990. p. 124
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