The General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU) was the sole national trade union center in Syria, it was founded in 1948.

By a 1968 decree establishing a single-trade-union system, all trade unions in the country are required to be affiliated to the GFTU, and the GFTU had the power to dissolve the executive committee of any union.

The union was closely linked with the Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and the president of the GFTU, Shaaban Azzouz, is a member of the party.

Following the fall of the Assad regime, the GFTU was dissolved by the Syrian transitional government.

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