Tag: UGTT
Tunisia: UGTT charges IMF of pressuring it to endorse government-pushed reforms
UGTT, Tunisia’s mighty labor union, Thursday slammed the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for exerting pressure on the organization to back reforms proposed by the government ... Read More
Tunisia: UGTT says targeted by authorities for refusing to endorse ongoing national dialogue
Noureddine Taboubi, Secretary General of Tunisia’s powerful labor union UGTT, revealed Thursday that the organization is being targeted by the government after it returned down ... Read More
Tunisia: UGTT announces general strike in public sector for June 16
The Tunisian powerful General Labor Union (UGTT) has announced a general strike in the public sector on Thursday, June 16, reports Tunisian news agency TAP, ... Read More
IMF to send team to Tunisia for further talks about credit facility
An International Monetary Fund team of experts will travel to Tunisia late this month to continue talks with authorities about the North African country’s request ... Read More
Tunisian teachers demand their January salaries
The union of secondary education, the general federation of higher education and scientific research, both members of Tunisia’s powerful workers union UGTT, have called on ... Read More
Tunisia to freeze salaries, recruitment in public sector for next three years – local NGO
Tunisia has pledged to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to freeze salaries and recruitments in public sector from next three years until 2024, local powerful ... Read More
Tunisia: Ennahdha pushes to ouster PM Mechichi – Business News
Tunisia’s largest party in parliament, Ennahdha, is in talks with the country’s powerful labor union UGTT to replace Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi as part of ... Read More
Cash-strapped Tunisia seeks IMF loan
Tunisia has officially asked the IMF for a new program to back up the economic reforms to alleviate the strain on public finances. The Tunisian ... Read More
Tunisia: Monthly minimum wage raised by 6.5 per cent
Tunisia has raised monthly minimum wage by 6.5 per cent to help workers weather economic stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the powerful workers’ union, ... Read More
Tunisia: UGTT to boycott legislative & presidential elections
Tunisia’s powerful workers union, UGTT, Thursday said it will take part neither in the legislative nor in the presidential elections planned for next fall. Noureddine ... Read More