الاتحاد العام التونسي للشغل بين عامي 1970-1987

الملخص EN

The Tunisian work union is au outcome of the national movement.

It is born with political aims that do not clash with the materialistic demands of the Tunisian working class, which grow due to the colonial and economic persecution.

The national or, entation was the incentive power upon which hinges the Tunisian General Work Union witch contributed, together with the new constitutional free party, to the independence of Tunis and building the national state.

The party, however, soon clashed with the union and forced it to revolve around its orbit.

During the 1970, the union gained a considerable popular momentum that revived its hopes to rule or at least to take part in the state's economic decision making.

This drove president AL-Habeeb Borqeeba to wage organized campaigns against the union and its leaders.

He arrested many of the union members with different charges.

Tension continued between the government and the union ill 1981 when the government became convinced of the necessity of changing its policies towards the union, replacing the prison sentences by home arrest and admitting the.

Indepence of the union from the party.

The party, however, gradually returned to its previous policies.

It managed to weaken the union and drive it away from ruling and decision making.

It limited the union work to meeting the popular demands within te available resources.