June 6, 2021
The Tunisian General Labor Union announced on its official page on the social networking site “Facebook” on Sunday, June 6, 2021, that the Secretary-General of the organization, Noureddine Taboubi, chairs Monday, June 7, 2021, the expanded executive office of the union.
According to the union, the work of the executive office will be devoted to looking into the general situation in the country and the internal union situation.
This comes in view of the recent violation of the law by the government and the burden on the citizen by raising the prices of a number of basic materials, which the Tunisian General Labor Union considered an explicit and clear intention towards lifting subsidies and complying with the instructions of the International Monetary Fund.
This week, the Tunisian General Labor Union issued a strongly worded statement, in which it touched on the unprecedented series of price increases for many basic materials, targeting the livelihood of the general public in a provocative step and in implementation of the programs it unilaterally committed to before the International Monetary Fund.
The union had expressed its absolute rejection of the unilateral commitments made by the government to the international financial circles because of the social measures that they included and the further debt that would result from them and the mortgaging of the country’s resources, in the absence of a fair and clear policy in the areas of collection and equitable distribution of wealth, and the Labor Union held the government and the supporting parties responsible.
In light of the deteriorating social climate and the willingness of all trade unions to defend the interests of the workers in all legitimate ways of struggle.
It is expected that the next few days will witness many moves in rejection of the policy adopted by the Mechichi government, and while waiting for the outcome of the meeting of the expanded executive office of the Labor Union and the preparatory steps to be agreed upon by the national administrative body, several parties, organizations and national associations are preparing to move against the government.
More than 10 parties, including the Democratic Current and the People’s Movement, and more than 6 organizations, including the Tunisian League for Human Rights, called for protests to reject the systematic policy of impoverishment against the people.
