Moroccan transportation professionals will go on strike after Eid Al Adha, to protest the government’s “unilateral decisions” dealing with the rise in fuel prices.
Unions representing the professionals are raising demands for the government to open up a dialogue that will bring about solutions to the crisis, which will satisfy all parties’ concerns.
Despite the government’s policy of issuing financial transportation aid to the sectoral workers, the professionals are demanding the executive reduce the fuel tax, even if on a circumstantial and temporary basis, as well as reducing profit margins for fuel companies.
Unionists and representatives of transportation workers spoke to Hespress AR, and expressed their discontent at the government’s policies.
Mounir Benazzouz, the national secretary-general of road transport professionals, said in a statement to Hespress AR that cargo carriers decided to strike after Eid al-Adha as the “government’s financial support is not enough, and what is required is dialogue rather than unilateral decisions.”
Benazzouz claimed that “the decision only serves the fuel lobbies, after the support, the increase will inevitably come again,” a reality that has been widely reflected, as the government issued a 40% increase in its fourth aid round, while fuel prices reach new historic high.
“There is no accountability or control following the situation,” laments Benazzouz, adding that “the situation is very difficult, but it is immoral to declare a strike during the Eid and spoil the occasion for people.”
Seddik Boujara, head of the Trail Union Confederation of the Moroccan Labor Confederation said that solutions such as temporary financial aid are nothing but “a temporary, patchwork solution,” which does not address the root cause of the matter.
The unionist called for the necessity of activating the Samir refinery, reducing tax, and reducing profit margins as well.
Today, fuel prices in Morocco went up to a new unprecedented height, with diesel exceeding MAD 16, and gasoline reaching MAD 17.79 a liter.
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