The Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, General Union of Workers) is a major Spanish trade union, founded in 1888 and with approximately 1 000 000 members.
The UGT declares itself to be an institution of productive workers, organized along lines of trades and liberal professions, which respects freedom of thought, leading toward the transformation of the society, in order to establish it on the basis of social justice, equality and solidarity.