Democratic Union of Labour

{{Infobox political party

| name = Democratic Union of Labor

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| foundation = {{date|14|April|1959}}

| dissolution = {{date|10|November|1962}}

| merged into = UNR-UDT

| founders = Louis Vallon
René Capitant
Jacques Debû-Bridel

| position = Center to Center-left

| ideology = Left-wing Gaullism
Laborism
Third Way
Workers representation
Sovereigntism
Progressivism

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The Democratic Union of Labor (Union démocratique du travail, UDT) was a French political party founded in 1959 for left-wing Gaullists at the beginning of the French Fifth Republic. Initially, it united activists for the independence of Algeria, progressive on economic and social issues compared to the dominant Gaullist movement, the Union for the New Republic (UNR).[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23604056 The American Jewish Year Book], Vol. 71 (1970), p. 416

Laborist advocates of capital and labor partnership, led by its general secretary through the party's life, René Capitant, and Louis Vallon. It formed the only left-wing movement that fully embraced the new institutions.

The UDT partnered with the UNR for the 1962 legislative elections and later merged with it to create the UNR-UDT, despite growing opposition among its members to Georges Pompidou, in the hope of establishing the left-wing faction of Gaullism.