At the end of a press conference, Friday at the headquarters of the Gabonese Trade Union Confederation (COSYGA), to which they are affiliated, the staff unions of the Gabonese Services Company (SGS), grouped within a collective, threaten to call a strike in five (5) days if they do not observe any thawing of the conciliation and arbitration procedure that they expect from the Ministry of Labor and the competent justice services, following the failure to take into account take into account their social and salary demands. They call for the intervention of the president of the transition, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguéma.
The agents of the SGS, of the three company unions (SYTRASGS, SYESGS and SYNPROSEG) are angry, in particular because of the lack of clarity on the frequency of salary pay for five (5) years, favoring more accumulation each year arrears became untenable and unbearable, they fumed.
“We cannot understand that people come to tell us that the company is in a difficult financial situation, even though when you look at the lifestyle of certain members of the General Management, you have the impression that they are all ministers »castigated Benoît Asse, president of the National Union of SGS Workers (SYTRASS).
This adrenaline rush is also the consequence of the absence of decorations, in violation of article 08 of the Gabonese Labor Code, they storm, as well as the absence of CNSS and CNAMGS contributions. In consideration of which, they demand the departure of the financial director of the company.
“We have been in this business for more than 5 years, nothing has changed, nothing is moving forward”was indignant Ambroise Motsounga, Secretary General of the SGS employees union (SYESGS) who, like his fellow staff delegates, are pleading for the establishment of an Arbitration College to stop “the scabrous management which tramples employees and finding solutions to poverty” that they say they encounter on a daily basis.
All these demands are contained in a specification brought to the attention of the company’s general management on May 28, in support of a strike notice, giving rise to the establishment of a arbitration procedure, acclaimed by the social partners; but unfortunately without any convincing results to date, the latter regret.
Faced with this failure of conciliation, the ministerial supervision via the Labor Inspectorate then referred the matter to the competent courts, before the Minister of Justice entrusted the matter to a magistrate, without the lines moving until present, we learn. “What surprises us today is that despite everything, the procedure remains blocked, giving the impression that the Minister of Labor has backpedaled”deplores Ambroise Motsounga, Secretary General of SYESGS.
Féeodora Madiba
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2024-10-04 22:22:11
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