The strike law creates “confusion” in the House of Councilors, and a union withdraws from the discussion
The oral question session in the House of Councilors on Tuesday witnessed a state of chaos and confusion, due to the strike law.
The Moroccan Labor Union team decided to withdraw from the first oral question session in the House of Advisors, in protest against the failure of the Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Enterprise, Employment and Competencies, Younes Skouri, to discuss with the trade union centrals the contents of the draft strike law before referring it to the relevant committee of the House of Representatives.
In this context, the head of the team of advisors to the Moroccan Labor Union, Noureddine Slik, accused the Minister of Employment of “deviing from the consensus that was reached between the team and the Prime Minister regarding the draft strike law,” and he stressed that this draft “will not be referred to the competent committee unless After agreeing on its requirements at the social dialogue table.”
Salik added, during the oral question session, that “this charter was taken from the Prime Minister and deviation from it is unacceptable,” highlighting that “for this reason we will withdraw from the session.”
Moreover, the speech and withdrawal of the Moroccan Labor Union team was not accepted by the majority advisors, who entered into verbal altercations with the withdrawing team, before the session president intervened to calm matters and continue the session’s work.
Earlier, the Secretary-General of the Moroccan Labor Union, Melody Mokhareq, said that “fraudulent dialogues should not be conducted in a miserable attempt to pass the strike bill, based on political, personal, and selfish calculations.”
Mukhareq explained that the negotiations were stopped because “the negotiations are being conducted in bad faith,” noting that “the union’s proposals presented to the ministry are not taken into account and come with false and twisted chapters, which led us to reject them.”
The union activist himself highlighted that “the union movement and active forces will confront this disastrous law,” considering that “it is not a regulatory law for strikes, but rather a criminal law for male and female workers who defend their rights and the application of the law, and for unionists and their organizations, and thus it is a criminal law for strikes.”
Melody Makhariq confirmed that the Moroccan Labor Union will issue a report on this matter and will take measures against this law, and against the ministry that is supposed to be the guardian of labor in Morocco.
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