In January 2011, Tunisia’s anti-regime protests helped spark the Arab Uprisings, and Tunisia was the only country where the labor movement played a credible leadership role both during and after the revolution. The General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) worked with other civil society organizations to defend basic civil liberties and protect the country’s economic development and its workers, and in 2015, the UGTT was part of a group of Tunisian organizations that was awarded a Nobel…
