Constitution
At present, the ETUC membership comprises 85 National Trade Union Confederations from a total of 36 European countries, and 10 European industry federations, covering some 60 million individual trade unionists. Other trade Union structures operate under the auspices of the ETUC : EUROCADRES (the Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff) and EFREP/FERPA (European Federation of Retired and Elderly Persons).
The current President, elected in May 2011, is Ignacio Fernández Toxo, Secretary General of CCOO Spain. The General Secretary is Bernadette Ségol, former Secretary General of UNI Europa.
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“We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal.”
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)