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A delegation of workers from the Tunisian trade union federation, UGTT, protested today outside the Egyptian Embassy in Tunisian over the failure by Egypt Post to implement the collective contract that had been negotiated with the Independent Egyptian Postal Unions.



Neil Anderson, Head of UNI SCORE and Mongi Abderahim, UNI’s MENA Region Coordinator, met with the Chef de Cabinet of the Egyptian Ambassador to Tunisia who accepted a letter for protest from the Tunisian workers. The Egyptian Embassy said it would pass on the letter to the Egyptian Government and that Egypt supported workers rights and good social relations with unions.



Neil Anderson said that the negotiated agreement should be honoured and that workers should be able to take their designated day off on Saturday and the contract stipulated. Mongi Abdaerahim told the Egyptian Embassy diplomats, that Tunisian workers supported the need to respect properly negotiated collective contracts and that UGTT would work to support the Egyptian colleagues in their legitimate struggle for justice and respect of their collective agreement.