The National Bureau of the Tunisian Labor General Union (UGTT), gathered on Monday, August 11, 2025 on Monday, under the chairmanship of its secretary general, Mr. Nour Eddine Slim, firmly condemned the “barbaric attack” perpetrated against the siege of the union organization.
This assault, attributed to supporters of power, was accompanied by slogans calling for the dissolution of the UGTT and the prosecution of the trade unionists.
In a press releasethe UGTT denounces a planned and organized offensive, involving mobilization of bus and hostile individuals, deliberately targeting the nerve center of the union. The organization forcefully rejects any attempt to minimize the gravity of this act, stressing that this would only encourage its repetition.
This new incident is registered according to the UGTT in a series of pressures exerted by the authorities against union rights, in particular through arbitrary measures such as dismissals, abusive changes and targeted trials against trade unionists, especially those of Sfax. These attacks undermine the right to strike, public and individual freedoms, and seek to divert attention from the failure of government policies in the face of social deterioration, increase in prices, galloping unemployment and poverty.
The UGTT expresses its support and gratitude to personalities, associations, political parties, brothers and allies unions who condemned this aggression and called to avoid the spiral of violence and chaos.
The union also denounces the systematic defamation campaign orchestrated by power, aimed at dirtying the image and honor of trade unionists by wrongly accusing them of corruption, in order to undermine the credibility of the UGTT and to sow discord among the population.
The UGTT holds the government responsible for this hostile mobilization and affirms its right to prosecute the authors of the attack and their instigators. It warns against any recurrence, stressing that this violence could plunge the country into a dangerous cycle of instability and uncertainty.
Finally, the UGTT announces the organization of a protest march Thursday August 21 and threatens a general strike in the event of an infringement of the union right.
