Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union warned on Wednesday that public sector workers may go on strike to reject a package of economic reforms proposed by the government that it said included privatizations, wage freezes and cuts to subsidies.
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“The Department of Public Sector and Public Service (within the UGTT) approved the principle of a general strike”, UGTT head Nourredine Taboubi told a union meeting in Bizerte, adding that the union’s high command would meet soon.
Tunisia in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a rescue package to avert a crisis in its public finances.
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