During Spain`s transition to democracy, left-wing organizations became legal again. In modern Spain, trade unions now contribute massively to Spanish society and, in turn, are the main catalyst for political change in Spain, with cooperatives employing large sections of the Spanish population, such as the Mondragon Corporation. The unions are now leading mass protests against the Spanish government and are one of the main vectors of political change. [57] Belgium is a trade union with 65% of the workforce. Only the Scandinavian countries have a higher density of trade unions. The largest trade union with about 1.7 million members is the Christian Democratic Confederation of Christian Trade Unions (ACV-CSC), founded in 1904. [19] The origins of the union can be traced back to the “Anti-Socialist Union of Cotton Workers” founded in 1886. [20] The second largest trade union is the General Socialist Confederation of Trade Unions of Belgium (ABVV-FGTB) with more than 1.5 million members. [21] The origins of the ABVV-FGTB date back to 1857, when the first Belgian trade union was founded in Ghent by a group of weavers. These and other socialist unions united around 1898. The ABVV-FGTB in its current form dates from 1945. The third largest interprofessional union in Belgium is the General Confederation of Liberal Trade Unions of Belgium (ACLVB-CGSLB), which is relatively small compared to the first two with just under 290,000 members.

[22] The ACLVB-CGSLB was founded in 1920 to unite the many small liberal unions. At that time, the liberal trade union was called “Nationale Centrale der Liberale Vakbonden van België”. In 1930, the ACLVB-CGSLB adopted its current name. [23] During this period, trade unions also developed in other industrialized countries, notably the United States, Germany and France. At the time of the founding of the ACLU, the unions suffered a well-funded attack by a group of industrialists, including John D. Rockefeller and JP Morgan, who waged an anti-union campaign under a patriotic banner, the National Security League, which led to a decline in union membership from 5,047,800 in 1920 to 3,622,000 in 1923. In 1929, the labour movement was weaker than it had been since the 1890s. In the 1980s, Mexico began to adhere to the policies of the Washington Consensus, selling state-owned industries such as railroads and telecommunications to private industries. The new owners had a hostile attitude towards the unions, which, accustomed to pleasant relations with the state, were not willing to retaliate. A movement of new unions began to emerge under a more independent model, whereas earlier institutionalized unions had been highly corrupt, violent, and run by gangsters. From the 1990s, this new model of independent unions prevailed, some of which were represented by the National Union of Workers / Unión Nacional de Trabajadores.

[46] In 2010, the proportion of unionized workers in the United States (or total union density) was 11.4%, compared to 18.3% in Japan, 27.5% in Canada and 70% in Finland. [61] The unionization rate in the private sector has fallen below 7%[62] – a level not seen since 1932. Unions say employer resistance contributed to the decline in membership. (6) “Commerce” means commerce, circulation, commerce, transportation, or communication between states or between the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States and a state or other territory, or between a foreign country and a state, territory or District of Columbia or within the District of Columbia or any territory. or enters points in the same state, but through another state or territory or the District of Columbia or another country.