The Moroccan Workers' Union (UMT for ''Union marocaine du travail'') is the oldest

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 ...

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria ...

. It was formed in 1955 by . With a membership of more than 306,000, UMT represents workers in both the private and public sectors of the economy. In 1960 the

General Union of Moroccan Workers The General Union of Moroccan Workers (UGTM) is a national trade union center in Morocco. It was formed March 20, 1960 and has a membership of 695,000. The UGTM has its roots in the agricultural workers of Morocco, although it does have public and ...

(UGTM) split from the UMT. In 1963, UMT itself lapsed its membership in the

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) was an international trade union. It came into being on 7 December 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and was dissolved on 31 October 2006 when ...

, after the formation of the

All-African Trade Union Federation The All-African Trade Union Federation (AATUF) was a Pan-African trade union organisation, formed in November 1959 on the initiative of president Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. The secretary of AATUF was Amadou N'diaye. The assistant secretary general ...

, as a result of the AATUF's opposition to African membership in non-African organisations. In 1990, UMT re-affiliated itself to the ICFTU (now 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 A trade union (labor union in Am ...

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* Trade unions in Morocco International Trade Union Confederation Trade unions established in 1955 1955 establishments in Morocco {{Africa-trade-union-stub