Habib Achour (Arabic:الحبيب عاشور ; February 25, 1913 in

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– March 14, 1999 in

) was a Tunisian trade unionist. As

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of 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 ...

, Achour was among the founders of the

Tunisian General Labour Union The Tunisian General Labour Union (french: Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail, ''UGTT''. ar, الاتحاد العام التونسي للشغل) is a national trade union center in Tunisia. It has a membership of more than one million and w ...

(UGTT) in 1946, which he directed three times: from 1963 to 1965, from 1970 to 1978, and from 1984 to 1989.

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Tunisian politicians 20th-century Tunisian businesspeople 1913 births 1999 deaths {{Tunisia-politician-stub