About us
Every day, tens of millions of Arab citizens leave their houses to work. They face difficult circumstances, hard work, and little income. They dream of good working conditions and salaries that would enable them to support their families financially to live in decent conditions.
Well, how can this be fulfilled without having a voice to defend them and their rights. In fact, unions have been established for this purpose, since the beginning of the twentieth century in the Arab countries. However, they were suppressed, hindered, and not allowed to work freely as they wanted, for the sake of workers and all wages’ owners. In addition, most workers’ livings remained below the minimum conditions they needed in order to have a decent life for them and their families.
Fortunately, now, the Arab trade union organizations are not under the control of their government orders anymore, when all the Arab unions decided to be united all together to form what is now the Arab Trade Union Confederation. It is an organization which aims to unite the Arab workers all together to defend their rights, including the rights of women and youth, who are working against discrimination, as well as, to preserve the rights of migrant workers against exploitation.
Moreover, it is an organization headed by men, women and youth alike to create a force calling for social justice and respect for human dignity and individual freedoms. This union has also created a network of Arab women, an Arab youth union, a syndicate of journalists, in addition to the legal workers who defend the workers' rights and work to protect them.
The Arab Trade Union Confederation is a social institution that interferes with labour relations on the basis of respect for the dignity of workers, the maintenance of productive projects, the insurance of the continuity, stability and success of the economic institutions in the Arab countries ,as well as, the principles of equality and freedom for the Arab citizens in their workplaces.
Constitution
Members
Mission
- Defending the right of all workers to organize and practice their freedom freely, and encourage the building of democratic and independent trade union organizations that work in a transparent manner.
- Working for unifying the Arab democratic trade union movement; to face the various emerging challenges and support the paths of democratic transformation in the Arab countries.
- Promoting to social justice and democracy, the equitable distribution of wealth, good governance, the pursuit of social progress and the guarantee of decent work, and the decent life of different people's groups.
- Developing labor relations in order to ensure the basic rights at work and to promote the economic and social conditions of workers
- Defending human rights and advocating for and promoting public and individual freedoms, including trade union freedoms, including the right to organize, freedom of expression, peaceful demonstration and strike.
- Achieving equality and eliminating of all forms of discrimination on the basis of sex, color, religion, language, social, cultural or geographical origin.
- Defending the right to equality, the right of women to assume positions of responsibility in employment, in representative institutions and in the leadership of trade union organizations, and the eliminate all forms of discrimination and violence against them.
- Defending the economic, social and cultural rights of all workers in the Arab region and adopting the principle of established social dialogue and collective bargaining as the best ways to improve labor relations.
- Working to achieve Arab economic integration as a necessary condition for achieving economic and social growth throughout the Arab region.
- Combating all forms of human trafficking and exploitation in all its forms, including sexual, forced labor or bonded labor, and underground labor and handling.
- Defending the rights of migrant workers and addressing all forms of discrimination and exploitation to which they may be face.
- Working to develop youth work, expanding Arab efforts to combat unemployment, fragile work and social exclusion, and defending the interests of young workers and protecting their rights.
- Working to combat poverty, hunger and exploitation, persecution, corruption, inequality and discrimination.
- Working to combat child labor, protecting the rights of domestic workers and vulnerable groups, and defending girls and children who are forcibly displaced and exploited in various ways.
- · Demanding the formulation of a comprehensive and sustainable participatory development policy in the Arab countries in order to consolidate social democracy and achieve a fair distribution of national wealth to ensure the dignity of all workers and social groups.
- Take all measures to promote and increase trade union affiliation in the Arab region.
- Strengthening Arab and international trade union solidarity and supporting persecuted trade union movements.
- Developing the bonds of cooperation and solidarity with civil society organizations, which have the same principles and values of the Arab
- Trade Union Confederation and the various social movements against the wild liberalism.
- Defending the rights of people with special needs, working to strengthen them, supporting retirees and protecting their interests and organizing them by trade union.
- Rejecting all forms of colonialism and foreign interference, supporting all peoples fighting to regain their sovereignty and self-determination, supporting the struggle of Arab and international liberation movements, and defending the right of the Palestinian people to liberate their land and establish their independent state.
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ATUC CONDEMNS THE USE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST TEACHER TRAINEES IN MOROCCO
2016-01-08ATUC CONDEMNS THE USE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST TEACHER TRAINEES IN MOROCCO
AYTUN VOICES SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIANS AND THEIR LEGITIMATE UPRISING FOR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE
2015-10-16AYTUN VOICES SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIANS AND THEIR LEGITIMATE UPRISING FOR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE
A STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH DETAINED ACTIVISTS FROM THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE RIGHTS OF UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
2015-02-12A STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH DETAINED ACTIVISTS FROM THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE RIGHTS OF UNEMPLOYED WORKERS
A STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE INTERFERENCE OF SECURITY FORCES IN THE AQABA CONTAINERS TERMINAL STRIKE
2014-09-04A STATEMENT CONDEMNING THE INTERFERENCE OF SECURITY FORCES IN THE AQABA CONTAINERS TERMINAL STRIKE
A STATEMENT SUPPORTING THE GENERAL STRIKE CALLED FOR BY THREE CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS IN MOROCCO
2014-10-29A STATEMENT SUPPORTING THE GENERAL STRIKE CALLED FOR BY THREE CENTRAL TRADE UNIONS IN MOROCCO
MESSAGE FROM THE ARAB TRADE UNION YOUTH ON FREEDOM OF OPINION AND EXPRESSION
2014-10-04MESSAGE FROM THE ARAB TRADE UNION YOUTH ON FREEDOM OF OPINION AND EXPRESSION
ATUC: NO MORE VIOLATIONS AGAINST THE TUNISIAN GENERAL LABOUR UNION
2014-10-01ATUC: NO MORE VIOLATIONS AGAINST THE TUNISIAN GENERAL LABOUR UNION
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ARAB TRADE UNION WOMEN NETWORK TO THE FOUNDING CONGRESS
2014-09-28RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ARAB TRADE UNION WOMEN NETWORK TO THE FOUNDING CONGRESS
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ARAB TRADE UNION WOMEN NETWORK TO THE FOUNDING CONGRESS
2014-09-28RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ARAB TRADE UNION WOMEN NETWORK TO THE FOUNDING CONGRESS
RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ARAB TRADE UNION WOMEN NETWORK TO THE FOUNDING CONGRESS
2014-09-28RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE ARAB TRADE UNION WOMEN NETWORK TO THE FOUNDING CONGRESS
STATEMENT: "THE FUTURE IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY"
2014-09-28STATEMENT: "THE FUTURE IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY"
ATUC WOMEN'S NETWORK CALLS FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE AGREEMENT
2014-09-27ATUC WOMEN'S NETWORK CALLS FOR ANTI-VIOLENCE AGREEMENT
