Morocco: Baggage handlers at Mohammed V airport protest

The online newspaper 'Hespress' reported that the baggage handlers at Mohammed V airport denounced the 'repetition of the same speeches during weekly meetings', according to the statement by Younes Rafeï, secretary-general of the union office for service workers in sol who claimed that about 245 workers were fired.

During the same statement, Younes Rafeï explained that no measure in favor of the dismissed workers had been taken while the union representatives demanded, during the weekly meetings, only the resumption of the workers concerned. Rafeï also assured that the officials violated the agreement of June 25 since his financial and social articles have still not been executed.

The union official threatened to take the various legal measures to defend the requests of the airport baggage handlers recalling that a social charter was signed between the national airport office, Royal Air Maroc and the Moroccan Labor Union (UMT) .

The High Council of Accounts has taken charge of the strike strike of ground service workers at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca and that a parliamentary committee has started to investigate the various offers launched by the parent company ' Ram Handling 'last October and those launched by the company' GPI 'specializing in ground services.

For its part, the Dialogue Committee has already held a series of meetings since last June and managed to find a compromise with the strikers in July 2019 to end the strike that nearly blocked all service during the month most active of the year.

The minutes included the carrying out of several requests including the respect of all the rights cited by the Labor Code, the assumption of the costs of the pilgrimage of Oumra of four employees per year and to apply the system of overtime if needed.