Tunisia on verge of ‘economic disaster’: Labor union
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia is “on the verge of an economic disaster,” the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) said in a statement marking the Labor Day.
“Tunisia is on the brink of an economic disaster for which it has not found solutions other than more debt and burdening the people with taxes, high prices and freezing wages,” the union said.
It said such types of solutions have made the Tunisian economy bound to “options dictated from abroad and closed the door to domestic suggestions that would save the country from bankruptcy.”
UGTT called for the need to raise “the minimum wage (currently stands at about $134) and to initiate a new round of social negotiations to raise the wages of civil servants.”
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