After a strike launched by the aircraft maintenance technicians for more than 10 days, the Air Algérie company’s situation returned to its normal state, with the return of the strikers to their work, waiting for the administration’s decision towards the 13 excluded workers, who are trade union members of this sector, before the issuing of the final decision following their dismissal during the strike.
According to union sources, the committee set up by the company to look into the situation of the workers, who were excluded from work and listen to those concerned, who gathered during the hearing to deny that they were behind the protest movement, especially that the union and despite the clash with the company several times, each time it enters into a protest movement, whether a strike or a protest, it follows legal methods, through filing a strike notice in its legal period, before the launching of the movement. This time the protest was launched unintentionally by workers and not by the union leadership.
It is expected that the committee responsible for the follow-up of the file, which consists of officials of the company will continue its work with the concerned in the coming days, whose badges were taken away , banning them of even the entry to the company’s headquarters and maintenance sites, amid the follow-up of their colleagues with concern, as these trade unionists defended the rights of more than 700 technicians, over the past years, they have been credited with the signing of the collective agreement concluded two years ago.
The observers emphasize that all this makes the Air Algérie SpA calm and very cautious, and the importance of reflection became necessary before taking a provocative step, because the law prohibits targeting trade union organizations and does not give the authority to the administration to stop or freeze the activities of the union, especially when it comes to a legal organization approved by the Ministry , in addition to the pressure exerted by the Confederation of Trade Unions affiliated with the Union of Maintenance Technicians, which has already warned against harming the trade unionists. They also considered it as a serious violation of the freedom of association in Algeria. In fact, the union has nothing to do with the recent protest movement, because it did not hold its national council to warn about launching the strike. What happened was an individual step taken by the workers without returning to their union, in light of the recent tightening of the latter in the past months, and the series of judicial follow-up on the illegality of former strike notices deposited in company.
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