General Federation of Trade Unions (Iraq)

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GFTU

General Federation of Trade Unions
Founded	1959
Country	Iraq
Affiliation	WFTU, ICATU
Key people	Jamil Jabbouri, president Karim Hamzeh, general secretary
Office location	Baghdad, Iraq

The General Federation of Trade Unions is a federation of trade unions in Iraq.

The GFTU was the only legal trade union centre during the time of Saddam Hussein's government.

Other trade unions are now able to operate within Iraq, the largest of which is the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions.

[edit] References

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