General Union of Algerian Workers

General Union of Algerian Workers

Infobox Union
name= UGTA
country= Algeria
affiliation= ICFTU African Regional Organisation
members= 1 million
full_name= General Union of Algerian Workers
native_name= Union Générale des Travailleurs Algériens


founded= February 24, 1956
current=
head=
dissolved_date=
dissolved_state=
merged_into=
office= Algiers, Algeria
people= Abdelmadjid Sidi Said, general secretary
website= [http://www.ugta.dz/ www.ugta.dz]
footnotes=

The General Union of Algerian Workers (French: "Union Générale des Travailleurs Algériens", Arabic: الاتحاد العام للعمال الجزائريين), usually called UGTA, is the main Algerian trade union, established February 24, 1956 with the objective of mobilizing Algerian labor against French rule. It was banned shortly afterwards, in May, but continued to operate clandestinely, playing a notable role in the eight-day strike of 1957 and establishing a samizdat newspaper, L’Ouvrier algérien. It became effectively subordinated to the ruling party, the Front de Libération nationale (FLN), during the subsequent years of independence under a single-party socialist government, while welcoming the nationalization policy the government pursued.

In 1989, the government began to pursue a program of political liberalization, and a multiparty electoral system was rapidly installed. The UGTA took advantage of the new environment to establish some distance from the government, and struck in March 1991, obtaining various concessions including price fixing. However, this political experiment was interrupted in 1992 by the military, following an Islamist victory in the polls, and the Algerian Civil War began. The UGTA denounced the new government policy of economic liberalization under IMF guidelines, forced on it by the untenable debt situation. However, it sided strongly with the military against the generally anti-socialist Islamists, and its leader, Abdelhak Benhamouda, was assassinated by the latter on January 28, 1997.

In 2000, the organization established a working group, the National Commission of Working Women, to address issues related to women's position.

The organization is currently led by Abdelmadjid Sidi Said.

References

*cite book
year = 2005
title = Trade Unions of the World
editor = ICTUR et al,
edition = 6th
publisher = John Harper Publishing
location = London, UK
id = ISBN 0-9543811-5-7

External links

* [http://www.ugta.dz/index.php UGTA website]


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