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The Democratic Confederation of Labor called for a national general strike in public office on Tuesday, April 18, accompanied by protests, in order to urge the government to “implement the commitments contained in the agreement of April 30, 2022.”
Among the commitments that the Confederation stresses its implementation, according to a communiqué, are “a general increase in wages, a review of the two halves of the income tax, the creation of a new degree, the adoption of a sectoral dialogue that leads to practical results, as well as confronting the scheme that harms pension earnings.”
In this context, trade union centralism criticized what it called “the government’s neglect and failure to respond to its letter addressed to Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch regarding the implementation of the April 30 agreement, the implementation of the charter for institutionalizing social dialogue, respecting trade union freedoms, and addressing social conflicts.”
And the Confederation considered that “the dire social situation the country is going through is the result of the continued exponential rise in the prices of basic materials, the collapse of the purchasing power of citizens, and the bias towards the interests of rentier and monopolistic capital.”
In light of this, the Confederation called on its members and all Moroccan citizens to participate massively in the April 8, 2023 vigils announced by the Social Front against High Prices and Social Oppression, and to continue mobilizing to make the demonstrations of May 1 2023 a station of national protest.
It should be noted that the Confederation of Democratic Labor had announced earlier that it would organize a general strike in public office and a national protest march that would determine their date later, holding the government “responsible for the current social crisis and what the situation will lead to as a result of social tension.”
The trade union center warned of “the unprecedentedly high prices, the collapse of the purchasing power of citizens, and the widening circle of poverty and social and spatial disparities in light of the succession of crises and the government’s insistence on the same choices that have prevailed for decades.”