The General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT[a]) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges.

[2] According to the historian M. Dreyfus, the direction of the CGT is slowly evolving, since the 1990s, during which it cut all organic links with the French Communist Party (PCF), in favour of a more moderate stance.

[3] CGT General Secretary Phillipe Martinez announced that the union will support the week of climate action beginning on 20 September 2019.

[6][7][8][9] On 18 June 2024, the CGT called for a vote for the New Popular Front (NFP) in the 2024 French legislative elections.

[12] The decision to endorse the NFP presented a turning point, since while the CGT has regularly called for a vote against the far right, in recent decades it has not called for people to vote for any specific party or bloc,[10][13] due in part to the CGT's Amiens Charter—which recognizes the independence of trade unions from political parties.

CGT had an upper hand in the Muslim regions in comparison to the rival French Confederation of Christian Workers, who depended on the presence of Catholic communities for its recruitment.