The institutional position of the "other" unions

Abstract

To speak of the institutional position of the "other" unions requires a step-by-step approach in the following terms: a) identification of the unions that act as a point of contrast for these purposes, due to their preferential institutional position; b) determination of the basis and scope of this preferential legal position; c) detection of the differences in the legal regime between these unions and the others; d) composition of the institutional position of the unions that do not reach that level, and e) evaluation of the Spanish trade union system from these perspectives. These are the axes of exploration and development of the present work, which must be aware of the de facto differences existing between the trade union organizations that effectively concur in the system of labor relations, but which must primarily attend to the incidence of the criteria of representativeness in the trade union agreement, since this is the main factor of legal and institutional differentiation between the trade union organizations.