General Federation of Trade Unions (Syria)

GFTU

General Federation of Trade Unions
Founded	1948
Headquarters	Damascus, Syria
Location	Syria
Members	300,000
Key people	Yassin Tulaimat, chairman
Affiliations	WFTU, ICATU National Progressive Front
Website	tss-est.net/worker/

The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) is the sole national trade union center in Syria, it was founded in 1948. By a 1968 decree establishing a single-trade-union system, all trade unions in the country are required to be affiliated to the GFTU, and the GFTU has the power to dissolve the executive committee of any union.

The union is closely linked with the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and the president of the GFTU, Shaaban Azzouz, is a member of the party.

The GFTU is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions^[1] and the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions.

References

1. "WFTU » Syria: The WFTU President is participating and addressed the 27th Congress of GFTU-Syria". WFTU. 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2021-06-11.

• ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.