The National Federation of Trade Unions of Lebanon announced, in a statement, that “a meeting was held during which the pressing issues were raised. At the beginning, FENASOL president, Castro Abdullah, opened the session by directing condolences to the army leadership on the four soldiers, and renewing condolences to the families of the martyrs of the port explosion.”
The statement denounced “what some Arab reactionary regimes did by normalizing relations with the Zionist enemy, and condemned this normalization, which is nothing but a new stab to Palestine and the Palestinian people.”
The statement called for “The acceleration of the formation of an independent national government with exceptional reform and work to resolve the economic crisis, to develop economic and social policies that protect the poor and those with limited income, to hold accountable the thieves and the corrupt, and to work on a progressive tax policy and load the banks and the financial oligarchy that benefited from the financial policies over the course of thirty years.”
The same statement added that the new government must work on “boosting industry and agriculture, creating productive policies, opening the job market, preserving competencies and youth in Lebanon instead of pushing them to go abroad.”
In its statement, FENASOL also called on “all union affiliates to work closely and prepare to confront the policies that will be imposed on us in the future. To confront them from today through, there needs to be an inclusive national conference that works to produce a new social contract in which all segments of society participate to impose this power through comprehensive democratic change, including a fair electoral law on the basis of proportionality, outside sectarian constraint, and for a united Lebanon instead.”
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