VOL. XXXIII

NO. 17

29-JANUARY-1990

Algeria

Sonatrach Workers Establish Independent Trade Union

According to the Algerian News Agency (APS) on 23 January, around 914 of the1,130 workers in Sonatrach's Oil Production Department have voted to establishan independent trade union not linked to the official Union Generale desTravailleurs Algeriens (UGTA) which is under the control of the ruling NationalLiberation Front (FLN). The UGTA, which until last year was the only nationaltrade union in the...