The Secretary-General of the Tunisian General Labor Union, Noureddine Tabboubi, said that the country is going through dangerous turns and that the union will not remain silent about the continuation of the current situation in Tunisia, while the National Union of Tunisian Journalists threatened to implement a general strike.
During his supervision of the activities of the 23rd anniversary of the death of union leader Habib Ashour, Al-Taboubi stressed that no party, regardless of its name, can bypass the Labor Union.
Habib Ashour is considered one of the most prominent Tunisian national leaders fighting against French colonialism. He was born in the city of Sfax on February 25, 1913 and died on March 14, 1999.
"It is our duty today to stand in solidarity for national choices and not accept nonsense from this side or that side," al-Taboubi said.
And he added, "Unfortunately, many took democracy with the logic of booty, and we will not sign a blank check for anyone."
"We support the measures taken on July 25, but we still believe that our country will only be built in partnership with the real national forces that renounce violence and seek unity, and we, as a union, are among these national forces," he added.
Threatening a general strike
On the other hand, the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists threatened, on Monday, to implement a general strike to "stop the authority's control of the media sector."
Amira Mohamed, vice-president of the union, said in a press conference in the capital, Tunis, that "what is happening in the Tunisian television establishment regarding the authority's control of the editorial line will lead to an escalation in the upcoming moves, including the general strike in public sector institutions, and we may resort to the general strike in the whole sector and to what is more than the general strike.”
She added, "Tunisian television and the Tunisian media suffer from a crisis, in addition to the fragility of the employment of journalists and the continuation of random and temporary appointments in public media such as the national radio."
The threat to strike comes after dozens of state TV workers protested on Friday, denouncing the "control of the authority" and the "imposition of the agenda" of President Kais Saied on this public facility.
Since last July 25, Tunisia has been experiencing a political crisis when President Kais Saied imposed "exceptional" measures, most notably freezing the competencies of Parliament, issuing legislation by presidential decrees, dismissing the government, appointing new ones, and dissolving the Supreme Judicial Council.
Most of the political forces in Tunisia reject the exceptional measures, and consider them a "coup against the constitution", while other forces support them, seeing them as a "correction of the course of the 2011 revolution", in light of the political, economic and health crises.