The General Conference of the trade union of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced starting a ‘warning’ strike on December 2 before going into a comprehensive and open strike. The decision came as a protest against the agency’s failure to respond to the workers’ demands.
All educational, health, and service institutions will be closed without exception, in all five areas of the Agency, and for all employees, which is a legitimate right.
The unions of workers demanded to “cancel the decision of exceptional leave without pay for all employees under the pretext of financial deficit” and to return the annual grant retroactively frozen since last March. They, also, demanded “permanent appointment of the children of refugees in all sectors and the category A of workers, and putting an end to daily-work contracts.”
They also demanded the payment of salaries for the 11th and 12th months without delay and all in once and the implementation of the decisions of the Beirut Conference on the end of service, the provident fund, and the administration’s commitment by 7.5%.
The Agency’s administration has been ignoring the workers’ demands due to the financial crisis it is witnessing, despite support from donors to pay a large part of its deficit after the international conference held at Brussels.
UNRWA helps Palestine refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the occupied West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, and its services include education, health care, relief and social services, camp improvement, and protection.
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