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Algerian Trade Unionists in Critical Condition as Hunger Strike Enters Fifth Week
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Algerian Trade Unionists in Critical Condition as Hunger Strike Enters Fifth Week PR Newswire GENEVA, Switzerland, June 8, 2012 GENEVA, Switzerland, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Government Ignores Deteriorating Health of Federal Justice Workers In protest against repeated human

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Algerian Trade Unionists in Critical Condition
as Hunger Strike Enters Fifth Week
PR Newswire
GENEVA, Switzerland, June 8, 2012
GENEVA, Switzerland
,
June 8, 2012
/PRNewswire/ --
Government Ignores Deteriorating Health of Federal Justice Workers
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 workers' rapidly deteriorating health conditions, the government
continues to refuse to address the judicial workers' issues.
Leaders of the Algerian National Independent Union of Public Administration
Workers are attending the International Labour Conference in
Geneva,
Switzerland
to call international attention to this desperate situation. No longer
mobile, the workers have dangerously low blood pressure and sugar counts,
are suffering from muscular pain and can barely speak. A number of the
women are mothers with young children.
Union president Rachid Malaoui explains, "These workers are demanding that
the Ministry of Justice honour the commitments it made on
22 February 2011
to
increase wages and respect workers' rights to freedom of association and
collective bargaining."
"These workers are asking for a dialogue with the Minister of Justice to discuss
working conditions within the justice department. Yet the Algerian government
is refusing dialogue or even acknowledgement of the protest. For the past year,
all doors at the ministry have been closed," says union general secretary
Nassira Ghozlane.
The hunger strikers began their protest following a government crackdown on
a national protest by judicial workers on 24 April. According to a statement
issued by the administration workers' union, security forces violently broke up
the peaceful protest, wounding and arresting more than 150 women. Reports
of severe police brutality against women held in detention include cases of
multiple bone fractures, loss of consciousness, and one woman's subsequent
miscarriage.
Workers in the judicial sector, who are primarily women, have led several
protests in recent months against repeated infringements on their right to
organize. Consequently, many workers have been denied pay, suspended,
transferred or dismissed. Additionally, there have been numerous accounts of
verbal and physical harassment of judicial workers.
The administration workers' union (le Syndicat National Autonome des
Personnels de l'Administration Publique - SNAPAP) is an affiliate of the global
union federation Public Services International. PSI general secretary Peter
Waldorff says: "We call on the Algerian government to take immediate steps to
ensure respect for fundamental labor rights, including trade union rights and
civil liberties."
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