Isabel Pallarès i Roqué (1964 – 24 June 2021) was a Catalan teacher and trade unionist who was the first woman to serve as general secretary of a class trade union organization in Catalonia, a position she held for 15 years.
After fifteen years at the head of the organization, she gave her testimony to Carles Sastre i Benlliure, who had accompanied her during her term as secretary of Trade Union Action.
She managed to move from a model of federated autonomous unions to a more confederal and unitary type organization and to make social and national demands more explicit and forceful.
In the international sphere, Intersyndical-CSC consolidated the relationship with ELA and the IGC and opened intense relations with LAB, which led it to create the Platform of Stateless Nations Unions.
[2][3] Pallarès died on 24 June 2021 at the age of 57, leaving a husband and two children, after suffering a long illness.