The CCOO document is 117 pages long and includes a large and detailed section on Spain’s trade union history. The second half of the document concentrates on the main issue of ‘rethinking the union so as to place work at the center of society’ and includes a study on the union’s modus operandi and ways in which it can be improved. CCOO affiliates will be invited to contribute to the debate that is commencing within the union and to post their contributions on a dedicated website.
A loss of union and union affiliates power. The document’s authors state that the 2008 economic crisis marked a turning point for the union, which was compounded four years later with the 2012 labor law reform that introduced changes to the collective negotiation model, which greatly weakened unions in general and the CCOO in particular, and came precisely at a time when social issues including unemployment, precarity, poverty, and inequality were society’s dominating concerns.