The extended executive committee of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) called on the government, following a meeting held on February 13 and 14 devoted to examining Tunisia's general situation, to resume social negotiations, implement blocked agreements and to review salaries, reads a statement, Wednesday, by the UGTT. It also called for reviewing retirement pensions regularly, particularly for retirees affiliated with the National Social Security Fund by altering the guaranteed minimum wage. The executive committee of the UGTT expressed rejection of what it describes as "exclusion of the trade union center" and "unilateral decision-making by the power in place" for files which concern in particular the amendment labor legislation, the reform of the education system and the reform of public enterprises, the management of social and social security funds as well as the revision of legislation and statutes of the civil service and the public sector. It stressed, in its press release, the need to put an end to the legal pursuit of trade unionists and release detainees "who were arbitrarily arrested during the exercise of their trade union rights" according to the same source. It also called for the removal of Decree-Law 54 relating to the fight against offenses on information and communication systems, which it said "threatens freedom of expression", stressing the importance of respecting the independence of the judiciary and stop prosecuting citizens without evidence or presumptions. The executive committee of the UGTT denounced the attacks perpetrated by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people in Gaza with the support of the US administration and the complicity of several regimes normalising with this entity. It urged trade union structures and UGTT members to participate in a workers' rally which will be held on March 2 at the Kasbah Square to defend trade union rights. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse
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