Tunisian trade union movement most deeply rooted across world, Saied says [Upd 1]

The Tunisian trade union movement is the most deeply rooted in the world and is part and parcel of the Tunisian National Movement, said President Kais Saied as he chaired Tuesday a ceremony to commemorate the 71st anniversary of Farhat Hached's assassination. Stances taken by the trade union movement since the 1920's have been the most deeply rooted in the world, the President told members of the late Hached family, led by his son Nourredine Hached, Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labour union (French : UGTT) and members of its executive bureau. The trade union movement put forward constructive and new solutions. To have a better understanding of the high moments of the trade union movement, Saied said, it is necessary to read again the periodicals, mainly Eshaab newspaper and manuscripts in the National Library. The President recited the Fatiha in the memory of the late Farhat Hached . He also expressed the hope to create a museum which traces the history of the National Movement, one which, h e said, is home to books, studies, lectures and conferences on the lives of labour and national movement leaders, mainly Mohamed Ali Hammi and Farhat Hachad. The President said, in another connection, he hopes to have quotes by the late leader engraved as they had been engraved in history. The ideas and principles embraced by Hached show he had been well ahead of his time as regards social development. President Saied said a number of National Movement documents had been recovered under bilateral cooperation from the French national printing agency. SG Nourredine Tabboubi called for recovering the labour movement archives seized back in 1978 and 1985. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse