Morocco: Moroccan Labour Union calls for improving the conditions of workers

Morocco _ Moroccan Labor Union confirmed the continuation of its demand to raise wages, improve income and protect trade union freedoms through the abolishing of Chapter 288 of the Criminal Code, with an emphasis on speeding up the implementation of April 26, 2011, agreement.

The Union announced at a conference held yesterday, the absolute solidarity with all the protest movements: With the dismissed, with the 10 thousand coordinating frameworks, with dropping the retirement file coordination, the blind protests and all affected groups.

The Union condemned the” government unprecedented hostile attack” on the working class, and its independent movement. Considering that the elimination of social dialogue is a serious indicator that paves the way for the suspension of democracy and opens the way for the domination, tyranny and the exclusion of the living forces in the country that are contrary to the government opinion.

The union also renewed its rejection of the various laws, which the government passed individually, which formed a blatant challenge to the Moroccan constitution that provide participatory democracy  in adoption of economic and social policies.

 some of these laws include (retirement file, collaboration code, a set of laws in public employment) which he considered a stab in the stability of the workers.

 

The Union held the government the responsibility for the worsening economic crisis in Morocco, because of the absence of alternative or independent economic programs, also their constant mortgaging of the national economy abroad and subjecting it to the dictates and conditions of the international financial institutions, leading the country to sink in foreign debt and exposing it to the policies of the unsocial and unpopular austerity.