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 french: Ordre National des Avocats de Tunisie , native_name_lang = , named_after = , image = Tunisian Order of Lawyers logo.png , image_size = , alt = Logo of 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 conso ...

– 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 Mahmoud Messadi ( aeb, محمود المسعدي; 28 January 1911– 16 December 2004) was a Tunisian author and intellectual who also served as Minister of Education and Minister of Culture. He is one of the most prominent Tunisian novelists of t ...

*1952–1954: Mohamed Kraïem *1954–1956:

Ahmed Ben Salah Ahmed Ben Salah ( ar, أحمد بن صالح) (13 January 1926 – 16 September 2020) was a Tunisian politician and trade union leader. His power and influence peaked between 1957 and 1969 when he was able to implement his ideas for a planned ec ...

*1956–1963:

Ahmed Tlili Ahmed Tlili (أحمد التليلي) (16 October 1916 – 25 June 1967) was a Tunisian trades union leader and politician. Life Ahmed Tlili was born into a family of struggling farmers at El Ksar, a town a little in the Gafsa mining region, sl ...

*1963–1965:

Habib Achour Habib Achour (Arabic:الحبيب عاشور ; February 25, 1913 in Kerkennah Islands – March 14, 1999 in Kerkennah Islands) was a Tunisian trade unionist. As vice president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Achour was amo ...

*1965–1970:

Béchir Bellagha Béchir is a village in the commune of Tamtert, in El Ouata District, Béchar Province, Algeria. The village lies on the Oued Saoura northwest of Tamtert and southeast of Béni Abbès Béni Abbès ( ar, بني عباس), also known as the ' ...

*1970–1978:

*1978–1981:

Tijani Abid The Tijāniyyah ( ar, الطريقة التجانية, Al-Ṭarīqah al-Tijāniyyah, The Tijānī Path) is a Sufi tariqa (order, path), originating in the Maghreb but now more widespread in West Africa, particularly in Senegal, The Gambia, ...

*1981–1984:

Taieb Baccouche Taieb or Taïeb may refer to: * Jacqueline Taïeb (born 1948), French singer and songwriter *Maurice Taieb, (born 1935), Tunisian born French geologist and paleoanthropologist *Taïeb Boulahrouf (born 1923), Algerian politician and militant nationa ...

*1984–1989:

*1989–2000: Ismaïl Sahbani *2000–2011: Abdessalem Jerad *2011–2017:

Houcine Abassi Houcine Abassi ( ar, حسين العباسي; born 19 August 1947), is a Tunisian unionist. Biography He was the Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) since 2011.

*2017–present: Noureddine Taboubi

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