Unión General de Trabajadores (sector histórico)

José Gómez Egidio was the president of UGT(H).[3][4] Felipe Redondo was the vice president of the organization.[3] Lázaro Movilla served as treasurer and national spokesperson of UGT(H).[5] Other veteran socialists in the UGT(H) leadership were Isaac Pérez (secretary), Felipe López, Francisco Biedma, José Alarcón and Benito Guaza.[3] The national committee of UGT(H), with these men and three others representing trade unionists in exile, was named in January 1976 by the provincial federations of UGT(H).[3]

UGT(H) claimed to be the genuine inheritor of the tradition of the original UGT.[4] The other UGT group rejected these claims, stating that the name of UGT(H) was creating confusion amongst workers.[6] At a public meeting of UGT(H) in Madrid in 1977 a group of UGT cadres disrupted the event, shouting slogans in support of the UGT leadership.[4]

UGT(H) sought return of UGT properties expropriated after the Spanish Civil War.[7] UGT(H) had close links to the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, with which it shared a common view on the latter developments inside the Republican camp in the Civil War.[8][9] UGT(H) was vehemently anti-communist and opposed the unity process of the labour movement advocated by Comisiones Obreras.[5][9]

PSOE(H) members were obliged to be members of UGT(H), a policy inherited from Pablo Iglesias from the early years of PSOE.[3] Apart from PSOE(H), UGT(H) was also joined by members of the Spanish Democratic Socialist Party (PSDE) and Spanish Social Reform (RSE) (two anti-Marxist groups).[10] These parties were also allies of PSOE(H) in the Socialist and Democratic Alliance.[2]