CGT
Noun
Meaning
CGT (uncountable)
(economics) Initialism of capital gains tax.
Examples
Excellent attitude of the socialists, even of the revolutionaries and of the CGT...We have not had arrested any of the individuals registered in the Carnet B, apart from a few rare exceptions, when the Préfets believed themselves confronted with dangerous anarchists.
Additionally, an appeal was made to European unions (CNT - Spain, CGT - Spain and CGT - France) to send organizers to Madison who could present their experience of general strikes at union meetings and help organize the strike in other ways.
CGT membership was estimated to be around 100,000 for 2003.
G. Careri (1991), L'Unione Sindacale Italiana Portugal's CGT was driven underground after an unsuccessful attempt to break the newly installed dictatorship of Gomes da Costa with a general strike in 1927 which led to nearly 100 deaths.
A government offer to remove the most controversial part of the plan, raising the retirement age to 64, has been rubbished by the leading CGT union who called it a ‘smoke-screen’.
In 1895, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) in France expressed fully the organisational structure and methods of revolutionary syndicalism influencing labour movements the world over.