Sindicato Angolano dos Camponeses e Operários ('Angolan Trade Union of Peasants and Workers', abbreviated SINDACO) was a trade union in Angola. SINDACO was linked to UNITA.[1][2]
SINDACO was founded at a congress held April 24–25, 1975 where the CNTA and merged with the UNITA-aligned UGTA. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions was represented at the event.[3][4][5]
SINDACO remained based mainly in the Ovimbundu-dominated cities of Huambo and Lobito, whilst being marginalized in Luanda (where MPLA was monopolizing control over the trade union movement).[5] SINDACO activities were disrupted by the Angolan Civil War.[3] In Lobito SINDACO was led by Jorge Valemtim.[6]
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- ^ Engel, Jeffrey A. Local Consequences of the Global Cold War. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2007. p. 286
- ^ African trade union news, eds. 5–73. Regional Economic Research and Documentation Center., 1975. p. 11
- ^ a b Coldrick, A. P., and A. Philip Jones. The International Directory of the Trade Union Movement. New York: Facts on File, 1979. p. 258
- ^ International trade union news. International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 1975. p. 22
- ^ a b Mielke, Siegfried. Internationales Gewerkschaftshandbuch. Opladen: Laske + Budrich, 1983. p. 206
- ^ Wolfers, Michael, and Jane Bergerol. Angola in the Frontline. London: Zed Press, 1983. p. 51
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