Gamarra praised the figure of Nicolás Redondo: "He was an indefatigable defender of workers' rights"

MADRID, 4 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, lamented this Wednesday the death of the historic UGT union leader, Nicolás Redondo Urbieta, who has died at the age of 95, and has stated that "he was a tireless defender of workers' rights" .

In her account on the social network Twitter, the also 'popular' spokesperson in Congress has stated that, with her death, the Transition "loses another of its protagonists".

Likewise, he has said that, from the "responsibility" of defending in a "tireless" way the rights of workers, "he made concord, freedom and democracy possible."

Nicolás Redondo Urbieta (Baracaldo, Vizcaya, 1927) was a historic Spanish unionist and politician. A metalworker, he joined the PSOE and the UGT in 1945. Thus began a very long union biography, which reached the front line in 1976. He was arrested and prosecuted by the Francisco Franco regime on numerous occasions (up to six times) due to their political and union activities. He was banished to Las Hurdes in 1967.

On April 18, 1976, he was elected general secretary of the UGT at the 30th Congress of the socialist trade union center. Two years earlier he had resigned to lead the PSOE at the Suresnes congress. He was elected deputy of the PSOE for Vizcaya in 1977, 1979, 1982 and 1986. In 1987 he resigned his seat after voting against the General State Budget (PGE) for 1988. He called together with the CCOO the general strike of December 14, 1988 and two more general strikes in June 1992 and January 1994.

On April 10, 1994, when his son Nicolás Redondo Terreros led the PSE-EE, in the 36th Congress, he gave way to Cándido Méndez as general secretary of the UGT and withdrew from all political and union activity.