Algeria – = The National Office denounced the arbitrary decisions made by the electricity distribution company against their employees, as the company withdrew the salaries of trade union leaders in Tizi Ouzou and Bouira and froze the accounts of members of the independent union unlawfully . A statement issued by the office said that the administration deprived many trade unionists in many states from their allowances like the rest of the workers, but more than all the workers of the independent union have been deprived of a grant for three months because of their union activities.