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 A trade union (labor union in Am ...

and the

Arab Trade Union Confederation The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

. 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 and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers – collectively labelled the

National Dialogue Quartet The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (Arabic: الرباعي التونسي للحوار الوطني‎, French: ''Quartet du dialogue national'') is a group of four civil society organizations that were central mediators in the effort to consol ...

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

Chairman (secretaries-general)

*1946–1952: Farhat Hached *1952–1952: Mahmoud Messadi *1952–1954:

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*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:

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