União Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola ('General Union of the Workers of Angola', abbreviated UGTA) was an Angolan trade union organization in exile. UGTA was founded in 1964 following a split away from Liga Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola (LGTA), and was linked to the Council of the Angolan People (CPA, a small Kinshasa-based political movement).[1][2] UGTA would later become aligned with UNITA.[2][3]

UGTA was founded by the former LGTA leader Andre Martins-Kassinda.[4] As of December 1966 Paul Bing was the UGTA chairman, Bernardo Domingos the vice president, André Kassinda general secretary, Carlos Manuel Pacheco assistant general secretary and Mauricio Luvualu secretary for international relations.[5] UGTA was affiliated to the World Federation of Trade Unions and the All-African Trade Union Federation.[6]

UGTA joined hands with Federação Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Angola and the Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores de Angola in denouncing the UNTA-led coalition CUACSA, following a CUACSA statement denouncing the other Kinshasa-based unions.[7]

In 1971 the then UGTA general secretary, Mauricio Luvualu, was handed over to the Portuguese by the Kinshasa government.[4] Luvualu was sentenced to forced labour. Upon his release in 1974 he founded a new trade union movement, Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores de Angola (CNTA).[8] UGTA merged with the CNTA at a congress held April 24–25, 1975, forming the Sindicato Angolano dos Camponeses e Operários (SINDACO). The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions was represented at the event.[2][3][9]

References

  1. ↑ Southern Africa, Vol. 4. Southern Africa Committee, 1971. p. v
  2. 1 2 3 Mielke, Siegfried. Internationales Gewerkschaftshandbuch. Opladen: Laske + Budrich, 1983. pp. 205-206
  3. 1 2 Coldrick, A. P., and A. Philip Jones. The International Directory of the Trade Union Movement. New York: Facts on File, 1979. p. 258
  4. 1 2 Marcum, John A. The Angolan Revolution. Vol. 2, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1978. p. 393
  5. ↑ Marcum, John A. The Angolan Revolution. Vol. 2, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1978. p. 368
  6. ↑ Santos, Eduardo dos. Pan-africanismo de ontem e de hoje. 1968. p. 455
  7. ↑ Marcum, John A. The Angolan Revolution. Vol. 2, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1978. p. 160
  8. ↑ Marcum, John A. The Angolan Revolution. Vol. 2, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962-1976). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1978. pp. 393, 428
  9. ↑ International trade union news. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1975. p. 22
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