فلسطين: الاتحاد العام لنقابات عمال فلسطين يقرر مقاضاة وزير العمل

Palestine – Palestinian General Federation of Trade Union decided to prosecute the Labour Minister Mamoun Abu Shahla, on charges of slander and libel against the union and its secretary general.

 

the Union condemned the remarks of the labour Minister, in which he said that the Secretary General of the Union has been forwarded to the General Attorney and the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the financial violations, and that the General Federation of Trade Unions file has been forwarded and the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate the internal situation of the union, because the union received a large sum of money  20 years ago by the Israeli Federation of trade Union, Histadrut that no one knew anything about even the General Authority of the Union.

 

The statement added that these allegations are misleading, because the topic raised in before the Palestinian the Supreme Court of Justice is a complaint from the General Federation of Trade Unions against the Ministry of Labour, because the ministry froze all  banking accounts of the union, along with many unions, not to put the Union on trial of the charges presented by the minister Abu Shahla, and it is worth mentioning that the General prosecutor and the anti-corruption Commission had been examining the papers and documents concerning the Union for a long time, just like what the administrative and financial control Court did in 2014 .

 

Palestinian General Federation of Trade Union- which includes many unions such as: Press, media, public services, agriculture and food industries, tourism, kindergarten, construction timber- considered labour ministers remarks, illegal and would harm the relations between the government and the civil institutions, and would inflict serious damage to the government impartially, and would raise doubts that the government do interfere with the work of the judiciary.

 

Secretary of the General Union, Hussein Alfoqahaa considered that the Labour Ministers remarks are condemnable, because he is a government official and it is prohibited to preempt the judicial level of the charges and sentencing, even if he has evidence for his remarks, for this, we condemn this irresponsible behavior.

 

He added The Labor Minister will also be prosecuted due to his decision to freeze the bank accounts of  the union which caused many of the programs, activities and projects, training and educating a halt , and caused some donor countries to cancel their cooperation with the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, such as Denmark and the European Union, and some countries froze its work with the union, such as Norway and Sweden, causing the loss of tens of jobs associated with those projects.