Deaf, reelected with a large majority for his second term as CCOO leader

The current Secretary General of the Workers’ Commissions (CCOO), Unai Sordo, has achieved this Saturday, at the 12th Confederal Congress, reelection for his second term as head of the union for the next four years with 659 votes in favor and 44 abstentions, which what a 93.74% support, above the 88.8% obtained in the previous Congress.

The new executive has had 661 votes in favor and 49 abstentions. The support of the union delegates has been 93.09%.

In Friday’s session, CCOO delegates endorsed Sordo’s candidacy for the CCOO General Secretariat, the only one that has been presented, with a total of 668 endorsements.

In this 12th Congress, which started on Thursday, Sordo took stock of his four years as Secretary General. His mandate has been marked by the pandemic, which has defined, above all, the last two years.

In this time, they have achieved various social agreements, such as those of the temporary employment regulation files (ERTE), the increase in the minimum interprofessional salary (SMI) to 965 euros and the first leg of the pension reform.

Negotiations will continue in this second period. Ahead, it remains to finalize the labor reform, which the Executive must present to Brussels before the end of the year. Sordo is confident that “yes or yes” will be ready in the next few weeks.

In his second term, the CCOO secretary general will also have pending the development of the agreement to deploy the first leg of the pension reform and the negotiation of the second part, which will foreseeably include the new contribution system for self-employed workers to starting from your actual income.

Also, Deaf will have to face a new negotiation for the rise of the SMI; the deployment of European funds and State Budgets, those of 2022, with an investment record, and a new tax reform that will be born from the report of the experts appointed by the Spanish Government.

The Basque trade unionist was the only candidate for the General Secretariat in this Congress, as in the previous one, held at the end of July 2017.

In CCOO, the General Secretariat is limited to a maximum of three terms (two ordinary and one extraordinary) of four years duration each.

Substitute for Onaindi

Sordo (1972, Barakaldo) grew up in the Uribarri neighborhood and educated in a public school and institute, where, apart from his first “revolutionary pinito” with an anti-NATO poster, he already showed much more zeal in explaining a metaphor that in understanding integrals and derivatives, as he tells in his personal blog.

He also graduated as a social graduate from a public university, the University of the Basque Country, and worked for a few years in the wood sector to finally reach CCOO, something that occurred “as happens sometimes in life, almost by chance and with conjunction of stars through “.

But without a doubt it was the “social debt” that he had that led to his dedication to the union world, assuming in June 2000 the CCOO de Euskadi Youth Secretariat for eight years later assuming the general secretary of the union in the autonomous community, replacing Josu Onaindi, being re-elected again in 2013.

In 2017 he decided to make the leap to Madrid, being the only candidate to replace the head of the general secretary of CCOO Ignacio Fernández Toxo, who had decided to promote the generational change of the union due to the need for transformation and deep renewal that the organization needed to complete. .