CC.OO. and UGT enjoy a total of 58 buildings assigned by the State

The maintenance of these properties is carried out by the beneficiaries, but not the tax burdens such as the Real Estate Tax (IBI) for being the buildings owned by the State, which also faces the rehabilitation of the farms, as happened in 2021. That year, as this newspaper advanced, this newspaper, this newspaper advanced, The department directed by Yolanda Díaz It arranged one hundred million European funds for the energy renewal of 42 union headquarters.

Those 58 properties are distributed as follows: 33 for commissions and 25 for UGT. Together they suppose payments for The IBI in charge of the public treasury of at least 700,000 eurossince the work response does not facilitate this data for five buildings. The total square meters of the assignments amount to 22,856, and their market value, attending to the average of the price of each area and the use of the buildings, would exceed 200 million, according to calculations made by a large real estate company for this newspaper.

Since In 1986 the norm was promulgatedthe unions, and to a lesser extent entrepreneurs, have been rescued buildings and today, four decades later, enjoy the use of a large heritage. Accessing the distribution of the assets of the state transferred is not an easy task. Work does not advertise them on their website and this newspaper has been requested without success. A little over a year ago solidarity, the union close to VOX, said it had data from the ministry that placed in 52 the properties assigned to the centrals they direct Unai Sordo and Pepe Álvarezsix less than those now collected by the response sent to transparency. Given the opacity of the government, it is unknown if in these months it has provided more real estate to the unions or if the solidarity data were not correct.

In detail of the real estate

The transparency response collected by ABC was produced by a question by lawyer Guillermo Miguel Rocafort «about the detail of all the real estate and surfaces of the Spanish state free of charge to the CC.oo unions. and UGT ». According to this information, the property that most IBI pays is UGT headquarters in Madrid, in Avenida de Américawith an invoice of 387,233.5 euros and the most extensive is the one enjoyed by CC.OO. In Seville, in the mythical Avenida de la Razawith 11,257 square meters and an invoice of 39,175.39 euros of municipal contribution. It is Madrid where buildings pay the highest tax (435,901.25 euros), followed long distance by Valencia (61,101.39 euros). And by provinces it is Madrid and Barcelona that have more real estate, nine each. In the first, three are of commissions and six of the Socialist Central, while in Catalan region six are from CC.OO. and three of UGT. Valencia is the following province, with five, three of them from the central that runs deaf.

In addition to commissions and UGT, Other 14 union organizations Of less size they benefit from real estate assigned by the State, and, as confirmed by this newspaper, the CEOE has another 11. These data place the total real estate in the hands of employers and organizations of workers in more than 80, on which an expense per IBI weighs that would exceed 1.5 million, according to data from the solidarity union, close to the training of Santiago Abascal, on a base of 68 premises.

All Spain is dotted with union and business buildings that are ceded, many of them located in strategic areas of the cities. Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Seville … in addition to the aforementioned UGT headquarters in Avenida de América, in Madrid, or that of CC.OO., on the Avenida de la Raza in Seville, the capital’s center is also located in the capital, in the employer center of the employer’s operations, in Diego de León number 50. They are also part of the so -called accumulated union heritage the headquarters of the socialist central in the Rambla del Raval in Barcelona, ​​a building Bought in 2019 by the State from the Barcelona City Council For 24 million when its current market value is 14, according to the appraisal made for this newspaper.

Scarce transparency and complaints of BNG

To the little transparency of the Executive on this building park, its lack of update joins, which has generated tensions in some union organizations and between regional political forces with the government. As work recognizes and collects the norm, the assignments are made “in favor of the unions of workers and business associations, with the preferably of those who hold the Most representative condition in accordance with the provisions of Organic Law 11/1985, on Freedom of Association, and the rest of the legal system ». This led to the BNG party -left -wing -, to load in 2023 against what he considered “a discriminatory situation in the distribution of accumulated union heritage.” The Galician Nationalist Party denounced that in Pontevedra the Galician Intersindical Confederation (CIG) has much less ceded space than CC.OO. and UGT, but is the majority. “The democratic majority have no reflection in the distribution of trade union heritage, which has been invariable for decades to the detriment of that union (CIG),” he said in a question sent to the Government through Congress.

«Under our criteria, the perpetuation in the time of this unjust situation violates the Principles of representativeness and geographical distribution that must fulfill the assignments of assets of the accumulated union heritage, according to the law, ”he continued. “The Ministry of Labor,” he said, “is aware of the problem and in recent years contacts have been maintained to solve it, which are documented in writing, but these negotiations are currently completely paralyzed to the detriment and harm of the union action of the CIG.”

BNG stressed the existence of «Five and concern» In the aforementioned union, being “the first in number of people elected representatives in the union elections” in Galicia, and “widely overcome the representation of the other trade union organizations for more than fifteen years” in Pontevedra.

“A fair cast”

From here, he asked the Ministry of Labor if he knew “the perpetuation of this discriminatory situation”; if he planned to “perform the precise actions to make a fair distribution”; And if he was aware that a new distribution was “essential” to guarantee the fundamental right to the Freedom of association». Work replied that it did not know “that none of the assumptions mentioned in article 11 of the Regulation that justifies initiate the procedure of assignment extinction has been produced.”

The other 14 unions that benefit from yielded propertiesaccording to a written response from the Government to Vox in 2021 are: CSIZQUIAL, CGT, CNT, CIC, CIG, CSIF, THE CONFEDERATION OF PICTURES, THE ELA-STV Basques and the Abertzale Lab union, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions (FSIE), its, Uceda, Use and Carbon Minas. There are also two associations as beneficiaries, the press of Madrid and Apitem (Professional Association of Technical Engineers in Mining).