Mahjoub Ben Seddik

المحجوب بن الصديق (Known as "Ben Seddik")

Founding Secretary-General of the Moroccan Workers' Union (UMT)

Born Feb 20, 1922

Meknes, Morocco

Passed Away Sep 17, 2010 Paris, France

Lifespan 88 years old

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"The worker's sweat builds the homeland; the union guards their dignity."

Archival Overview

Historic patriarch of the Moroccan trade union movement who founded the Moroccan Workers' Union (UMT) in 1955, leading Moroccan labor through five decades of national and international activism.

Biographical Record

Mahjoub Ben Seddik began his career as a railway worker in Meknes and Casablanca, quickly rising to prominence organizing clandestine anti-colonial strikes against the French Protectorate administration. Arrested and sentenced to hard labor in 1952, he emerged upon liberation to found the Union Marocaine du Travail (UMT) in March 1955.

As Secretary-General of the UMT for over fifty-five years, he was a giant of African trade unionism, serving as president of the All-African Trade Union Federation and fiercely guarding the operational independence of the labor movement.

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Final Resting Place

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Al-Chouhada Cemetery
Casablanca, Morocco

                         GPS: 33.5856, -7.5856                    

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