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Union elections. Civil servant regulations. Representatives elected. By trade union organisations. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Union elections. Civil servant regulations. Representatives elected. By trade union organisations. Counties and Aran, and provinces Catalonia
Electeds CCOO UGT IAC CGT CSI-CSIF Others
2024 2,891 772 636 298 231 176 778
2023 1,604 456 348 171 90 93 446
2022 2,781 705 593 290 223 249 721
2021 2,749 696 588 298 224 246 697
2020 2,683 686 572 294 217 243 671
2019 2,662 681 586 301 213 221 660
Source:
2019-2020: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families. Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu.
2021-2024: Ministry of Business and Labour.
Note: With respect to the personnel to whom the Civil servant regulations apply. On December 31.

Last update: February 11, 2026.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Union election
Election process in which workers, both in private and public companies, or those in the service of public administrations, select their delegates to representative bodies, which play a fundamental role in collective bargaining and the determination of labour conditions.
Elector
Person that satisfies the legal requirements to be able to exercise their right to vote.

Methodological aspects

Union elections are the election process whereby the representatives of the employees of a work centre are elected every four years.

The employees of the company or place of work aged over 16, with more than one month in the company, can take part in the vote - which is free, personal, secret and direct - to choose their representatives.

The workers' representative must be over 18 years of age, with at least six months in the company (unless where another limit, no less than three months, has been collectively agreed on due to personnel mobility).

List of abbreviation and names of the unions that appear in the tables:
CSIF Central Sindical Independent i de Funcionaris (Independent Trade Union Confederation of Officials).
CCOO Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (General Workers' Confederation).
UGT UGT Unió General de Treballadors (Confederation of Workers' Commissions).
USOC Unió Sindical Obrera de Cataluña (Workers' Trade Union of Catalonia).
CGT Confederacio General del Treball (General Confederation of Labour).
IAC Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya (Alternative Trade Union of Catalonia).

Either worker's delegates or a workers' committee will be chosen, depending on the size of the company's workforce.

The data on union elections with respect to the personnel to whom the Workers statute is applied and the civil servant regulations, on December 31.