Moroccan unions representing long-haul merchandise transportation professionals are threatening to launch a national strike, amid continuously rising fiel prices and insufficient government interference.
The National Unions for Road Transport of Goods denounced the “massive and continuous rise in the price of fuel,” calling on the government to take all measures that would limit the price of fuel at reasonable levels for the benefit of all sector professionals.
The unions, affiliated with the central the Democratic Confederation of Labor union, the General Federation of Workers in Morocco, the Moroccan Confederation of Labor, and the National Union of Labor in Morocco, are calling for government intervention as the crisis worsens.
Professionals and their representatives are calling current fuel prices “exaggerated,” while urging authorities to review te reasons behind such increases.
Authorities need to “open an investigation into the fuel market in our country, which is characterized by the presence of quasi-monopolistic structure,” read a statement from the coordination of merchandise transportation professionals.
The unions explained in the statement that its members are struggling as a result of the continuous rise in fuel price, prompting the professionals to allocate a whopping 80% of the total cost of their service to fuel.
The unions lamented “the limited impact of the state’s support on alleviating the impact of the rise in prices.
The statement added that, “as much as we call on the government to react quickly, and to salvage what is salvageable, all professionals are to unite, and prepare to engage in all legitimate forms of resistance, including a national strike.”
Although the government had distributed aid to transportation professionals, and announced an upcoming second round, professionals are asking to the official capping of fuel prices in Morocco.
The solution was recently described as “impossible” by the Minister Delegate in Charge of the Budget, Faouzi Lekjaa, earlier last week.
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