HIBAPRESS – A. Mahyoui
The city of Kenitra witnessed, on Monday, the organization of a protest in which dozens of female and male workers from a company specializing in the manufacture of cabling participated, in order to demand respect for their professional rights and the activation of the constitutional provisions related to trade union freedoms.
During this stand, the protesters raised banners and slogans calling for respect for the right to trade union work, with an emphasis on the necessity of activating the provisions of the 2011 constitution, especially Article Eight, which guarantees freedom of trade union membership and the defense of professional interests. The participants also expressed their dissatisfaction with what they described as "restrictions on trade union work" and the deprivation of some workers of their basic rights. The protest recorded a remarkable presence of the female element, as female workers formed the majority of the protesters, in a scene that reflects the size of the challenges faced by women within the work environment, and their desire to improve their social and professional conditions. The protesters emphasized the need to enable them to exercise their legitimate rights, and respect their dignity within the work spaces, warning against the continuation of what they considered violations that could lead to escalating forms of protest during the next stage. This protest step comes in the context of the growing demands of workers to improve working conditions and ensure legal and social protection within industrial units, especially in the cabling industry sector, which employs a large number of the workforce. This stand was organized on the initiative of the Free Trade Unions League, under the supervision of its Secretary-General, within the framework of a struggle program that aims to draw the attention of the concerned authorities to the conditions experienced by workers within this industrial unit, and to push towards opening channels of dialogue and responding to the demands put forward. In the same context, the stand witnessed a remarkable security presence, as the local authorities and security services mobilized their elements to secure the protest environment, in addition to the representatives of the authority affiliated with the administrative annex 12 in the Al-Issam area, in order to ensure the passage of the stand in a peaceful and organized atmosphere, without recording any incidents to mention.
