In an event held in Madrid, at the venue of CC. OO. Trade Union, AUME has commemorated the 20 years of the founding of the association, registered on April 12, 2005. During this event, a video of the history of AUME was projected and successively the following spoke:

– Jorge Bravo, founder and first secretary-general of the association, who recalled the troubles and difficult circumstances that the founders had to face with repeated disciplinary arrests.

– Juan Francisco García Crespín, representative of the UGT Trade Union, who greeted the attendees and showed the support and closeness of his organization with AUME’s work in favour of military workers.

– Antonio Lima Coelho, president of ANS until recently and current member of the Board of EUROMIL. Antonio, in words of great fraternal sentiment, showed the relationship of camaraderie, respect and solidarity that has always existed between the military of Portugal and Spain and their respective professional associations.

– Enmanuel Jacob, president of EUROMIL, who thanked the invitation and congratulated AUME for its 20 years of fighting for the rights of the Spanish military, remembering that his own mandate at the head of Euromil coincided with the birth of AUME.

– Unai Sordo, secretary-general of CC. OO., who as host showed his satisfaction that AUME was celebrating its anniversary at the union headquarters, reiterated his support for AUME’s work in these years of progress and the need for military personnel, in an advanced democracy, to be able to organize to defend their rights like the rest of the workers.

The event closed with the intervention of the secretary-general of AUME, Iñaki Unibaso, who thanked the guests and especially the organizations represented for their attendance. In his speech, he paid tribute to the founders of AUME, present in the room, recalled the role of the Association in the promulgation of the Organic Law on the Rights and Duties of members of the armed forces-which regulated the professional associations-and expressed the need to continue the fight until achieving the full rights of citizens in uniform.