Workers at the “Samir Refinery” organized a demonstration on Monday, March 2, in front of the commercial court in Casablanca, through which they renewed their demand to remove the difficulties and obstacles that undermine the efforts to save the Moroccan oil refinery from the destruction and forbearance and the loss of the rights as well as interests associated with it.
On Friday, February 21, the trade union front organized a protest in front of the main entrance of the company, expressing its firm stances of protecting and strengthening national energy security, and preserving the social and economic gains provided by the “Samir” company, for the benefit of workers, the city of Muhammadiyah and the destination of the home. Al Bayda – Settat and Morocco in general.
The protesters highlighted that “Samir Company, with its return to production, will provide 80% of Morocco’s needs of oil derivatives, including 50% of the gas market and a surplus for export of kerosene, fuel, gasoline and asphalt, with a storage capacity of 2 million cubic meters, of which 160.000 m² in the city of Sidi Kassem linked to a channel Under a floor length of 200 km, not to mention the important possibilities in export and import by virtue of interlocking with the oil port and with the stores of distribution companies”.
Samir users held the Moroccan state responsible for the consequences of privatization and leniency with breaches in the implementation of privatization obligations, demanding that it works with the required effort to protect Morocco’s interests in the dispute with the former investor, in the recovery of looted funds, and in preventing possible impacts on the image of foreign investment.
It is worth noting that the union front of the “Samir” company has been waging a series of protests since the disastrous announcement of the decision to stop the production of the refinery and trying to end its national role in the oil refining industry.
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