Confederación_Revolucionaria_de_Trabajadores
Confederación Revolucionaria de Trabajadores
Trade union centre in Mexico
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.[1]
CRT was founded in 1954,[2] 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).[3][4] At the time of its founding, CRT rallied some six hundred unions in different parts of Mexico.[4] CRT was affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[3] In 1955, Mexican authorities estimated its membership to 2,535, a low-end estimate.[5]
As of 1960, its membership was estimated at 3,917 (0.6% of the total union membership in the country).[6] In that year CRT joined the National Workers' Central (CNT), a coalition of different non-CTM/non-BUO labour groups.[7]
CRT became a constituent of Congreso del Trabajo ('Labour Congress'), an apex body created in 1966 by various PRI-affiliated trade union organizations.[8]
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.[9]