Territorial group unions threaten to return to demonstrate

A. Latif Baraka: Heba Press

The quadripartite union coordination of territorial groups has threatened its return to protest during the current month of September, in the context of what it considers a delay in the sectoral collective dialogue.

The coordination explained in a statement that the decision to return to the protest is part of its determination to continue the battle to defend its just and legitimate demands for workers in the sector, and for the right to radically change the situation that will end the suffering of workers and elevate their financial and professional conditions to the level of the rest of the sectors of the public service.

The coordinating bodies stated that September is “a decisive and crucial date to conclude the process of national sectoral social dialogue in the territorial groups”, and without it, it is “a clear declaration of its collapse and failure, thus preparing the process of national sectoral social dialogue in the territorial groups” the sector for more tension and tension.

In a related context, the coordination criticized “the disruption of the dialogue mechanisms by procrastination and delay, postponing it repeatedly, going back on its principles, emptying it of its usefulness and weighing it down with marathon meetings”, stressing that “sectoral social policies” dialogue, by its shaky nature, has only generated more suffering, loss of confidence and deterioration of the conditions of thousands of employees and workers in the collective sector.

The coordination stopped at what it calls the failure of the “Interior Ministry’s scenario of betting on investing even more fragile profits during a time taken from the lives, sweat and efforts of collective workers, workers for delegated management and national recovery” and casual workers, circumventing their constitutional rights and confiscating their freedoms.

The aforementioned trade union bodies concluded that “the ongoing dialogue with the representatives of the Ministry of the Interior at the General Directorate of Local Authorities has become useless, with its approved methodology, without a horizon”, considering both the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior responsible for what the sectoral dialogue defines as “stumbles and procrastination”.

Thus, the unions themselves have called on the government and the Ministry of the Interior to “intervene quickly to restore the situation to normal and ensure dialogue in a positive climate and spirit”, stressing “the need to respond to the demands and aspirations of all female and male workers in the sector, as well as other public sectors (…) under the pressure of the deterioration of purchasing power and the rise in prices, the cost of living in general and low wages.”