The Tunisian General Labour Union (french: Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail, ''UGTT''. ar, الاتحاد العام التونسي للشغل) is a

national trade union center A national trade union center (or national center or central) is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a country. Nearly every country in the world has a national trade union center, and many have more than one. In some regions, such a ...

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. It has a membership of more than one million and was founded January 20, 1946. The UGTT is affiliated with the

International Trade Union Confederation The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); german: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund (IGB), link=no; es, Confederación Sindical Internacional (CSI), link=no. is the world's largest trade union federation. History The federation w ...

and the Arab Trade Union Confederation. The UGTT worked together with the

Tunisian Human Rights League french: Ligue tunisienne des droits de l'homme , native_name_lang = , named_after = , image = Tunisian Human Rights League logo.png , image_size = , alt = Logo of the Tunisian Human Rights Le ...

, the

Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts ar, الاتحاد التونسي للصناعة والتجارة والصناعات التقليدية , native_name_lang = , named_after = , image = Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts logo.gif ...

and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers – collectively labelled the National Dialogue Quartet – to address the national discord following the Jasmine Revolution of 2011. The National Dialogue Quartet was announced as the laureate of the

2015 Nobel Peace Prize The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (founded in 2013) for "its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011". The National ...

"for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia".

Chairman (secretaries-general)

*1946–1952:

Farhat Hached Farhat Hached (; 2 February 1914 – 5 December 1952) was a Tunisian labor unionist and independence activist assassinated by the '' Main Rouge'', a French terrorist organization operated by French foreign intelligence. He was one of the leader ...

*1952–1952: Mahmoud Messadi *1952–1954: Mohamed Kraïem *1954–1956: Ahmed Ben Salah *1956–1963: Ahmed Tlili *1963–1965: Habib Achour *1965–1970: Béchir Bellagha *1970–1978: Habib Achour *1978–1981: Tijani Abid *1981–1984: Taieb Baccouche *1984–1989: Habib Achour *1989–2000: Ismaïl Sahbani *2000–2011: Abdessalem Jerad *2011–2017: Houcine Abassi *2017–present: Noureddine Taboubi

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