LAB (Basque union)

LAB

Full name	Nationalist/Patriotic Workers' Committees
Native name	Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak
Founded	1974
Members	45.000
Affiliation	World Federation of Trade Unions
Key people	Ainhoa Etxaide, general secretary
Office location	Bilbao
Country	Basque Country
Website	lab.eus

Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak (LAB, Basque for "Nationalist Workers' Committees") is a Basque left-wing nationalist and separatist trade union^[1] operating mainly in Spain currently led by Ainhoa Etxaide.

It was created in 1974 by Jon Idigoras among others. They are part of the Basque National Liberation Movement, an aggregation of leftist Basque nationalist forces including the illegal paramilitary organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) and the illegal parties Batasuna and Segi. It is supported by around 45.000 affiliates.^[2]

The union is legal and it is one of the four major of its kind in the Basque Country. In the last decades it has been working mostly with the other nationalist union, ELA, while both have been opposed often by the Spanish-wide trade unions, UGT and CC.OO., that make up their own bloc.

In 2011 it had the 16.2%^[3] of the labor delegates in the Southern Basque Country.

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