Morocco – Agricultural workers have carried out a labor march in which they protest against not receiving their rights, restriction on trade union activity, and unfairness of the authorities towards employers. They renewed their demands to improve the general conditions of work, including raising the minimum wage and taking care of their living conditions.
The general secretary of the local branch of the National University for the Agricultural Sector, AL-Melody Hamzawi Pashtoka said that the in the region came out today to celebrate the International Day of Labor, and that this celebration takes a protesting character and creates a continuation of the struggles of this group to improve working conditions and demand the unification of the minimum wage between the two sectors of the Agricultural and industrial.
He pointed to the deterioration of the conditions worker’s transportation, which kills a number of them annually, in addition to the damage of the use of chemical pesticides in the houses covered, in the absence of means of occupational health and safety, and the number of those authorized to benefit from health coverage, Lack of basic living conditions.
The spokesman also strongly criticized the lack of activating the role of the Regional Committee for Research and Reconciliation and the role of the labor inspector in the region in resolving the labor disputes in the region, which is at the top of its list of combating trade unionism, which leads to the continuation of the policy of mass layoffs more frequently, According to the speaker.
Workers in this sector in the province of Aitka Baha are harassed and exploited by labor officials and employees in isolated places inside the land and the ditching stations where it is difficult to prove the fact of harassment in a legal vacuum, said Ateka, an agricultural worker. The peasantry is more marginalized, and in the midst of it, the agricultural worker is marginalized in a way that is lost and deprived of rights, in the absence of any turnabout.
Amdhok Khadija, who is among the protesters, said that the workers today went out to denounce, shout and express the pressing demands of this segment, including raising wages that not only meet daily living necessities, raising and teaching children, And described workers and workers as the basis and pillar of economic development, but nevertheless the patriarchy remained dominant and continued to ignore the most basic rights
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