A union has set the date for a sit-in next Friday in front of the “Samir” refinery, which stopped refining oil years ago.
The union sent a call to participate in this protest process in front of the company’s headquarters in Mohammedia, “to any Moroccan woman and man interested in saving the Moroccan Refining Company and preserving the rights and interests linked to it “.
The “National Union of the Oil and Gas Industry”, affiliated to the Central Democratic Confederation of Labor, sent an appeal through its unified trade union office of the Samir enterprise, in which it referred more nine years “since oil refining was interrupted at the Moroccan refinery (Samir) and faced with judicial liquidation after the privatization and dumping scandal.
The union’s press release emphasizes that despite efforts to maintain the Samir refinery, the company “has entered the phase of disappearance and erosion of its material equipment and decline of its human resources, which increases the quantities of maintenance and rehabilitation and pushes the situation to the level of difficulty and complexity to resume production in the future, and the matter may reach the point of eliminating all hopes. energy sovereignty.
According to the union’s press release, this approach, planned for next Friday, aims “to protest against the negative position of the government, which has until now been content to ally itself with the lobbies controlling the oil market and to note the losses continue.” to the interests of Morocco in this matter.
The union also highlighted in its statement that one of the reasons that motivated the protest was “to confirm the request for the revival of the Samir company, to resume oil refining and to restore all rights and interests associated with this great industrial building, including energy improvements. security, moderation of fuel prices and reduction of foreign exchange wastage. » of the Moroccan economy and the city of Mohammedia.
