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Tag: UGTT
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
Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union to stage strike tomark 2011 revolution anniversary
Eight years after the popular uprising that ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian are back to the streets again as the government and its ... Read More
Tunisia: Strikes against budget draft increase, UGTT latest to join
Tunisia's draft budget is being welcomed with strikes against its planned austerity measures and one of the country's most powerful trade unions, the Tunisian General ... Read More
Tunisian Parliament to Hold Confidence Vote on New Government
The Tunisian Parliament said it would convene a session on Friday to hold a vote of confidence on the newly formed government led by premier-designate ... Read More
A Roadmap to Form Unity Government in Tunisia
The Tunisian Government and major political stakeholders in the country signed, at the Presidential Palace in Carthage, an agreement to form a unity government. The ... Read More
Tunisia to Announce New National Unity Government on July 25
Ahead of a third consultative committee meeting for the formation of a national unity government scheduled to take place on Friday, President Rached Ghannouchi of ... Read More
Tunisia: UGTT Draws Line in the Sand about Participation in Unity Government
Tunisia’s powerful labor union UGTT Wednesday underlined its rejection of President Essebsi’s invitation to join the future unity government currently under discussion. The UGTT said ... Read More