The General Assembly of Cyrenaican Labor Unions was a trade union centre in Cyrenaica, Libya. Rajab al-Nayhoum was the president of the organization.[1] Al-Nayhoum, a pioneer of the Libyan labour movement and a sailor who had acquainted trade union movements abroad, had tried to begin organizing union 1945 but had confronted problems from British authorities.[2] After the adoption of labour legislation in 1951, al-Nayhoum set up a Port Workers Union the following year.[2] During 1952-1953 five more unions were formed in Cyrenaica.[2] Together the six unions formed the General Assembly of Cyrenaican Labor Unions.[2] The General Assembly of Cyrenaican Labor Unions had around 3,000 members.[2]
The General Assembly of Cyrenaican Labor Unions remained outside the Libyan General Workers Union and maintained an independent line.[3] Whilst the Libyan General Workers Union was a founding member of ICATU, al-Nayhoum was reportedly denied participation at an ICATU meeting in Cairo in September 1958.[3]
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- ^ Directory of Labor Organizations: Africa. 1958. pp. 15–10.
- ^ a b c d e John Norman (1965). Labor and politics in Libya and Arab Africa. Bookman Associates. p. 139.
- ^ a b Willard A. Beling (1960). Pan-Arabism and labor. Distributed for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University by Harvard University Press. p. 50.