They failed to win over the Algerian CGT, but these sectors founded an independent nationalist trade union centre in 1956 (l'Union générale des travailleurs algériens, UGTA).
[1][2] On July 1, 1956, UGSA severed its links to the metropolitan CGT and became an independent trade union centre.
Also, some of the UGSA constituent unions retained their affiliations to the metropolitan CGT (particularly those operating in the public sector).
Several issues of the UGSA organ Travailleur Algérien ('Algerian Worker') were confiscated by the authorities, and the publication was eventually banned.
[1] At the time, there was a fierce competition between UGTA and UGSA over hegemony in the Algerian labour movement.