CIG
Confederacion Intersindical Galega, a Galician trade union confederation.
Galician trade union confederation whose president led the AI attribution behind an 80-job redundancy deal at Concentrix's A Coruña site, ratified 22 July 2026.
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Signed the redundancy agreement and attributed the cuts to AI
AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Eighty jobs go at a Galician call centreBackground
CIG, the Confederación Intersindical Galega, is the principal trade union confederation specific to Galicia, in north-western Spain, distinct from Spain's two largest national confederations, Comisiones Obreras and UGT, which organise across the whole country.
As a regional rather than national body, CIG concentrates its bargaining power on employers with a significant Galician footprint, giving it particular standing at sites such as Concentrix's A Coruña call centre.
Its regional focus means CIG's public positions on AI and job losses tend to be argued through specific local disputes rather than national policy statements.
CIG frames the cuts as AI-driven
CIG's role in the 80-job Concentrix redundancy, ratified on 22 July 2026, ran through its president: Tania Varela chairs the A Coruña works committee and led the case that Microsoft's AI self-service push, not unavoidable business need, justified the cuts .
Unlike its two national co-signatories, Comisiones Obreras and UGT, CIG's standing here is specifically Galician, giving the regional confederation direct leadership of a dispute that national unions joined rather than led. A second procedure covering up to 80 further roles runs to 31 August 2026.
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