The union supports cooperativism, mutual aid, food sovereignty, feminism, the anti-globalization movement, environmentalism and self-management.

The CCLL also organized protests, rallies and boycotts against the construction of dams on the Galician rivers, that flooded entire parroquias.

The same year, a group of dissidents who were opposed to the Galician People's Union policies left the CCLL and formed Comisiós Labregas-Terra.

The same year a conflict erupted between peasants and inhabitants of the parroquia of As Encrobas, Cerceda and the electric company Fenosa.

[4] The peasants were led by Moncho Valcarce, the local priest and a member of the Galician People's Union.

The same year the CCLL launched a campaign against the Cuota Empresarial, the company contribution, an amount of money that the Galician farmers had to pay to the social security despite the small and familiar character of their farms.

In fact, milk quotas and new taxes damaged the Galician agrarian sector during the second half of the 1980s, which saw the closing of many farms.

[8][9] The SLG has continued to participate in the social movements since then, being one of the main organizers of the protests against the gold mine in Coristanco in 2013.

[10][11] Due to the massive opposition to the project, the Xunta de Galicia decided not to give the license to the mining company.