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Gabou Gueye’s last union congress

Published: 20 November 2009
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 The congress of SNTPT Senegal taking place 19-21 November is the last congress for Gabou Gueye as Secretary General of this union. The great African union leader will retire after the congress. UNI Global Union African Regional Secretary, Zakari Koudougu and UNI Post & Logistics Head of Department, Neil Anderson have been attending to say farewell to a great trade unionist who has lead his union into a position of unparalleled strength. Commenting on the Congress, Jean Souliel of the CGT France, who also came to farewell Gabou, along with Hervé Morland of the CFDT 3C France, said he was amazed and extremely pleased to see the number of young people who were delegates and taking an active part in the conference.



Neil Anderson said he was it was clear that Gabou has passed on a vitality and progressive thinking to his union. “Gabou was the driving force behind the France Telecom Alliance and the signing of a global agreement with France Telecom, and he has passed on that mantle to this new generation of Senegalese unionists who are demanding workers rights and respect from the multinational companies operating in Africa and the world. Gabou has quietly got on with making his union a strong and viable organization and at the same time has given all his time to making sure workers rights are respected around the world. This man deserves a huge vote of thanks from all workers in the world. He has been a special person, not only has he been building a union in Africa, but he has also been taking his demand for workers rights all around the world.” He said; “SNTPT can be proud of Gabou’s achievements for all workers”



The union was also debating how it would face the changes taking place in the postal sector and what it would do to develop its work with organising workers in the new postal companies. Another issue was recruiting and organising workers in the ever increasing call centre industry in Senegal. Several of the delegates at the conference come from that sector.



The new team for SNTPT is;



- Mr Mamadou Diallo, elected new General Secretary of SNTPT

- Mme Ndèye Founé Niang, Sectoral General Secretary for TELECOM

- Mr Ibrahima Sarr, Sectoral General Secretary for POST & LOGISTICS