The Senegalese government and union representatives and employers signed a “social break” on Thursday for a three -year period without strike, supposed to have a peaceful social climate conducive to a competitive economy, the promotion of decent productive work and social equity.
Meeting Thursday at La Primature in Dakar, some 24 workers’ union centers and 4 employers have initialed this so -called pact of “Social stability for inclusive and sustainable growth”.
The agreement intends to give a framework to the relations between the social partners for the economic recovery of the country and includes a “three -year social truce” during which the unions undertake not to strike.
He was claimed last February by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko while the social climate was tense in the country.
“This pact is set up to build a solid and inclusive economy that will allow us to redistribute (wealth). We cannot lead this with the management of a social front ”said Sonko before the social partners.
On this occasion, he reiterated the government’s approach focused on dialogue, solidarity and transparency towards workers and employers organizations in order to promote the creation of wealth and their fair sharing between all the segments of the population.
-The unions hope that the Pact “will maintain peaceful peace relations to create the conditions for growth,” said Mody Guiro, secretary general of the National Confederation of Senegal Workers (CNS) during the signature ceremony.
Mody Guiro, has, on behalf of the trade union organizations, invited his union comrades to respect their commitment, materialized by the signing of the National Pact.
“Our signature commits us and we must assume ourselves. I invite all the other unions to do the same by respecting the terms of this historic pact, in the sense that it is the first time that the government and the social partners have managed to discuss in this way “, he said.
The president of the National Council of Employers, Baïdy Agne, said that the ” Construction of economic sovereignty “Means” reduction in outdoor dependence without harming the attractiveness of the country« .
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