EFE is a Spanish news agency

News agency

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 created in 1939 by Spain

Spain

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's former minister of the press and propaganda Ramón Serrano Súñer

Ramón Serrano Súñer

Ramón Serrano Súñer , was a Spanish politician during the first stages of General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, the Spanish State, between 1938 and 1942, when he held the posts of President of the Political Junta Política of Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las JONS , and Interior and...

 and Manuel Aznar Zubigaray

Manuel Aznar Zubigaray

Manuel Aznar y Zubigaray was a Navarrese-Spanish diplomat in the dictatorship of Francisco Franco....

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Nowadays, EFE is the major multimedia news agency in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 and the fifth of the world after Associated Press

Associated Press

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, United Press International

United Press International

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, Reuters

Reuters

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 and Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse

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Employees in Spain are represented by several labor unions. EFE has about 40 employees in the United States

United States

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 who voted on September 29, 2005, to be represented by the News Media Guild

News Media Guild

The News Media Guild, formerly known as the Wire Service Guild, is local union 31222 of The Newspaper Guild, which is a sector of the Communications Workers of America....

. Workers ratified a first labor contract in December 2006, marking the first time the company had ever reached such an agreement outside Spain.

External links

• Official EFE website