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Moroccan postal union wins its privatisation battle
| UNI's Moroccan affiliate, the Fédération Nationale des Posts and Telecommunications, Union Marocaine du Travail (FNPT / Morocco UMT) advises that the union has achieved a great victory in Morocco because it was able to stop the privatization of the post and Morocco make significant gains for postal workers in Morocco. This happened due to the sacrifices and struggles (letters of protest, study day negotiations, strikes and sit-in) over the last two years by our union, and, thanks to studies and a solidarity that has made by other unions during this Battle. That victory can be summarized as follows: 1 - on the political level: The government and the Moroccan parliament have dropped their on the idea of privatizing Morocco Post and the idea of applying the Labor Code (the law regulating the private sector in Morocco) to workers in the post. The workers will keep their current status (Decree No. 2-01-1637 of 10 rabii The 1422 (2 July 2001) status of staff in the position of Morocco). Among the important things that the union reports is that the Moroccan parliament has added to the Introduction of this law as follows: Given the important UNI study "What has the postal liberalization has brought? Study on liberalization of the postal sector, June 2009 "... ... the Moroccan parliament reject the privatization of the post maroc. 2 - For the union: - An increase of wages of postal workers from around the net DH 700.00 per month (about 70.00 Euros) plus many other important issues in the social, economic housing, health, social credit and commitment of Morocco to post the implementation of the remainder of the agreement signed 19/12/2007 The agreement was signed on Friday 17/07/2009 at Headquarters of Post Morocco in Rabat, by the federation on the one hand, the Minister of Industry, Trade and New Technologies (Signed to confirm the commitment of the Moroccan government to the non-privatization of the post Morocco) and the Director General of the Post Maroc. Our union would like to thank Philip J. Jennings, Koudougou Zakari, Neil Anderson, Esther Bares, Nasreddine Sassi, Abdoulay Sembene and for all they have done to help our union win this Battle |