The National Union of Phosphate Workers of the Moroccan Workers’ Union announced that it will launch a strike as part of the national struggle program on Thursday (February 7th), starting from 12 pm, in front of the General Directorate of Phosphates in Casablanca.
The union stressed in its last meeting that the General Directorate of Phosphates is determined to evade from its social responsibilities and to find the appropriate solutions to the accumulated problems in the sector, stressing that the administration will pass a strange and retroactive law that stipulates the change and completion of Article 114 of Law 65.00 as the code of basic health coverage. While passing this law, the General Directorate of Phosphates did not take into consideration the nature and type of the serious and fatal occupational diseases associated with the tiring working conditions, in the polluted phosphate mines and laboratories, to satisfy the greed of the insurance companies and to save funds from bankruptcy.
The union considered that the administration is covering up the black market violations in the health sector, ignoring the scandals of the treatments’ production institutions from private clinics and analytical laboratories.
It also highlighted the continuation of making the social dialogue institutions useless, as well as, the constant attempts to turn the dialogue sessions into news meetings that deepen the suffering of workers, who are risking their future with their heavy debts. Moreover, they pave the way for the development of revenge mechanisms against workers by imposing a ‘new old’ system of promotion: New in terms of its name in English (MY DEV) and old in terms of the cunning way of handing over the workers' professional fate to the logic of the known management sequence (VOIE HIERARCHIQUE), as well as, the tragedies of the unfair annual punctuation system and with the current system used in the distribution of the performance grant (PRIME DE PERFORMANCE) in addition to conspiracy and the ignoring of the former Al-Smeisi workers’ grant.
Moreover, the lack of attention to the demands of the retired phosphate workers, including the increase in pensions, family allowances, health coverage, the ambulance and the housing and school grants, the employment of their children and the exclusion from social activities, at a time when the demands of those affected by the failing housing policy are increasing, as well as, the risk of privatization and the loss of the permanent basic services, through giving the opportunity to the brokerage companies to exploit workers and through the re-appointment of retirees, the debasement of work and the unemployability young people.
The union accused the General Directorate of Phosphates of being responsible of the repercussions of threating the social peace, through its manipulation of the institutions of social dialogue and fighting against the serious trade union actions and provocative decisions that undermine and violates the rights.
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