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Workers' Commissions (Trade Union, Spain)

Comisiones Obreras

image by Jorge Candeias, 29 Aug 2003

Introduction
National Workers' Commissions of Catalonia (Comissio Obrera Nacional de Catalunya)
Workers' Commissions of Madrid (Comisiones Obreros de Madrid)
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Vertical Version

image by Jorge Candeias, 29 Aug 2003

I found a newspaper article about a general strike that took place in Spain last year. In a black and white photo, several flags are seen, including a vertical flag of Comisiones Obreras, one of the major Spanish trade union confederations.

The Confederation's website, at http://www.ccoo.es/, includes a logo consisting of white letters on red, so I deduced that the colours of this flag are likely the same.

Jorge Candeias, 29 Aug 2003

The colours of the flag are the same., but I don't see this vertical version many times. I believe that is not too much used; the most used is the normal horizontal flag.

Jaume Ollé, 29 Aug 2003

National Workers' Commissions of Catalonia

Comissio Obrera Nacional de Catalunya

image by Jaume Ollé, 29 Aug 2003

In Catalonia CCOO uses the Catalan flag with national (Catalan) logo, instead of the state logo; the name of the union in Catalonia is COMISSIO OBRERA NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA, but logo bears the classical CCOO, more popular (for some time was called popularly "coco" that in street Spanish means "head"). There is also a version used in Galicia.

Source: Flag Report 36

Jaume Ollé, 29 Aug 2003

Workers' Commissions of Madrid

Comisiones Obreros de Madrid

image by Eugene Ipavec, 05 Oct 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 05 Oct 2010

In Madrid CCOO uses a version of its flag with squared-off letters and the seven white stars of the Madrid Autonomous Community below. The right example was an extremely large flag carried by hundreds of protesters through the streets.

Eugene Ipavec, 05 Oct 2010

Vertical Versions

image by Eugene Ipavec, 05 Oct 2010
image by Eugene Ipavec, 05 Oct 2010