فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
Rabat: The National Labor Union in Morocco (UNTM) has announced its call for a comprehensive national mobilization on May 1st, 2025, in protest against what it describes as the “suppression of the constitutional right to strike and the erosion of pension gains,” “the undermining of purchasing power and systematic inflation,” as well as the “genocide of the Palestinian people and the continuation of normalization.”
In a statement issued on the occasion of May Day, which this year arrives amidst “grave challenges targeting the gains and fundamental rights of the working class,” the union affirmed its “steadfast positions defending the rights of the working class and the general citizenry.” It emphasized the necessity of a “comprehensive national mobilization to confront the policies that threaten our future and the future of our children.”
At the forefront of its demands, the UNTM expressed its “deep concern” regarding the “continuous attempts to undermine the constitutional and legal right to strike,” considering that “restricting the exercise of this right or encumbering it with prohibitive and restrictive conditions is tantamount to confiscating our right to express our rejection of unjust policies and defend our dignity.” It also reiterated its “categorical rejection of any attempt to backtrack on the pension gains” achieved through the struggles of generations of workers.
Regarding purchasing power, the union denounced the “continued undermining of purchasing power and the sustainability of systematic inflation,” pointing to the “continuous deterioration” of the purchasing power of the general public as a result of the “skyrocketing prices of various basic goods and services.” It called on the government to “take urgent and tangible measures to halt this sharp bleeding of citizens’ purchasing power.”
On the international front, the UNTM “condemned” the “genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people” and the “continuation of normalization” with the Zionist entity, reiterating its “absolute and unconditional solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people” and demanding the “immediate cessation of the normalization agreement and all forms of dealings with this usurping entity.”
On the occasion of Labor Day, the union congratulated the Moroccan working class and hailed its “steadfastness and responsible involvement in national production,” calling on it to “close ranks and unify the word to express rejection of all forms of exploitation, oppression, and marginalization.”
The UNTM also announced a series of other demands, including valuing the achievements of Moroccan diplomacy in safeguarding national unity, continuing the struggle for the just demands of various segments of the working class, expediting the issuance of fair and equitable basic statutes in public institutions, revising the wage system, improving the purchasing power of workers and retirees, denouncing the freezing of sectoral dialogues, warning against undermining trade union freedoms, demanding the strengthening of state oversight mechanisms to enforce workers’ rights, accelerating the enactment of the trade union law, preserving and developing pension system gains, reforming mutual systems, and enacting urgent measures to preserve the food security of Moroccans.
