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Algeria

ILO Director General meets with SNAPAP union representatives in Algeria

20 April 2013

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder met with trade union respresentatives, including PSI affiliate SNAPAP, on 16th April, during his visit to Algeria for the 40th Arab Labour Conference in Algiers.

A delegation of 100 Algerians prevented from attending the World Social Forum !

26 March 2013

PSI was dismayed to learn yesterday, March 25, 2013, that a caravan of SNAPAP trade unionists, human rights activists, members of the national committee for the defense of the rights of the unemployed, and the women's committee was prevented from crossing the border into Tunisia to attend the World Social Forum.

Algerian union organises unemployment forum - but authorities harass and expel participants

26 February 2013

PSI affiliate SNAPAP, together with representatives of unemployed graduates and young precarious workers from Tunisia and Morocco, organised a meeting of the North African Union to Fight Unemployment and Precarious Work in Algeria on 19-21 February. However, the Algerian authorities prevented anyone from entering or leaving the meeting venue. They also raided the hotel where trade unionists were staying and arrested five Moroccans, three Tunisians and three Mauritians, who were taken directly to the airport and deported, without being able to inform their families.

PSI denounces the violations and attacks on trade union rights and human rights in Algeria

18 October 2012

The security services in Algeria have arrested and assaulted twelve unionists who were peacefully protesting to support their colleague, Saad Bourekba, that has been indicted for sabotaging the computer network. PSI has sent a letter of protest to the President of Algeria.

Local and Regional Government/Municipal sector

28 August 2012

Local and regional governments (LRG)/municipal sector workers run essential services in cities, metropolitan areas and territories servicing millions of people and communities every day. Our members work in public administrations; public utilities such as water and sanitation, electricity, and solid waste. They operate public transport and maintain public spaces; work in social, culture and education services such as libraries, museums, kindergartens, schools and universities. They are health and social services workers. Firefighters, emergency, medical first responders and municipal police are also among LRG/municipal workers. PSI defends and promotes the union and labour rights of LRG/municipal workers and advocates their decent working and living conditions so that they can sustainably deliver accessible, quality public services to the local communities and territories they serve and successfully confront the many challenges posed by rapid urbanization and globalization. Join the discussion on PSI's LRG/Municipal Workers Facebook Group.

Hunger strikers risk their lives to try to break deadlock

15 June 2012

Forty days into their protest, nine Algerian justice workers are still waiting for the government to acknowledge their demands. Giuliana Sgrena reports. Hour by hour, day by day, the condition of the nine justice workers (six women and three men) on hunger strike in Algeria continues to deteriorate. The hunger strike, which began on 6 May, is taking place in the capital, Algiers, near the offices of the Algerian National Independent Union of Public Administration Workers (SNAPAP), to which the workers belong.

Algerian trade unionists in critical condition as hunger strike enters fifth week

06 June 2012

In protest against repeated human and trade union rights violations, nine union members, five women and four men, began an unlimited hunger strike on 6 May in Algiers, Algeria. Despite urgent requests for meetings, and daily reports on the hunger strikers' rapidly deteriorating health, the government continues to refuse to address the judicial workers’ issues.

Algeria: judicial workers on hunger strike

In protest against repeated human and trade union rights violations, nine union members, five women and four men, began an unlimited hunger strike on 6 May in Algiers, Algeria. Despite urgent requests for meetings, and daily reports on the hunger strikers' rapidly deteriorating health, the government continues to refuse to address the judicial workers’ issues.
PSI has already written to President Bouteflika and is now calling on its affiliates to take similar solidarity action, urging the Algerian government to start negotiations and to open the social dialogue that could resolve the ongoing crisis.

Algerian unionists on hunger strike for 10 days

16 May 2012

Members of PSI affiliate in Algeria, SNAPAP, working in the justice sector, have been on  hunger strike since 6th May, following a 21-day strike in the sector.
For ten days now, the hunger strikers have been ignored by the authorities. Their health is in danger and two of them have been hospitalised.

SNAPAP are calling on the government to react to this serious situation and to enter into negotiations with the justice workers' union. PSI is closely following the situation.