The Tunisian Labor Union (UGTT) claimed, this Wednesday, the urgent opening of negotiations in the public service and the public sector, believing that any delay in the launch of negotiations constitutes a refusal on the part of the power to initiate a social dialogue and a blockage of the process of social negotiations.
In a press release published at the end of the meeting of its administrative body, held on Tuesday, the UGTT underlined the need to implement the agreements concluded, in particular those of February 6, 2021 and 15 September 2022, to finalize the negotiations on the general and specific statutes, and to revise wages.
She also called for a revaluation of the guaranteed minimum wage in order to compensate for the deterioration of purchasing power.
The Union highlighted the impasse in social negotiations in the private sector, denouncing a lack of seriousness in their conduct. She held the Tunisian government and Union of Industry, Trade and Crafts (UTICA) for the persistence of social tensions.
The UGTT called for the resumption of negotiation sessions in the coming days, reaffirming its attachment to sectoral negotiations, both on financial and regulatory aspects, in order to do workers justice and to improve their purchasing power.
She also expressed her support for the protest movement for young residents residents, and condemned the continuation of the war waged by the Zéméricaine alliance against the Palestinian people, with the complicity of certain official Arab regimes, calling for the cessation of massacres and the fight against policies of forced displacement