The Tunisian General Labour Union (French :UGTT) Administrative Committee demanded the “immediate” resumption of wage talks in the civil service and the public sector and the implementation of previous agreements, including raising the minimum wage and enforcing the agreements dated September 6, 2021 and September 15, 2022.
This in addition to holding an assessment meeting in light of such indicators as inflation and Dinar slide, the committee said in a statement following a meeting Thursday in Hammamet.
In the event of ongoing opposition to social dialogue and collective bargaining, all UGTT structures are ready to engage in all forms of sector-based, regional and national labour struggle to champion the trade union right and the right to bargain.
The administrative committee denounced “violations of the trade union right,” constraints on trade union action and the exclusion of other actors from the consultation on education reform which, it
called, “formal and narrow.”
The cybercrime decree 2022-54 ne
eds to be revoked, further said the committee, as it was promulgated “to quell voices and ban criticism.” Curbs on freedom of expression pave the way for dictatorship, the statement also reads.
Source: EN – Agence Tunis Afrique Presse