Jordan: GFJTU Reached Two Hundred Collective Agreements in Two Years

On International Workers’ Day, the Phenix Centre for Economics & Informatics Studies in coordination with the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation organized a session entitled “Workers One Year After COVID-19.”

 

The vice president of the General Trade Union of Workers in Food Industries said in her participation in the session that the General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions (GFJTU) signed more than two hundred collective agreements in different economic sectors between 2019 and 2020.

 

She added that the General Trade Union of Workers in Food Industries signed seven collective agreements that provided financial gains for workers. Workers have, also, been included in the Convention C.190 of violence and harassment in the world of work.

 

She mentioned that workers in the food industry have been affected by the repercussions of COVID-19 especially those dismissed from work. She stated that most of the terminations of registered services were women.

 

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