{"id":170382,"date":"2022-06-01T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/south-darfur-ministry-staff-strike-for-better-wage\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T08:09:45","slug":"south-darfur-ministry-staff-strike-for-better-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/south-darfur-ministry-staff-strike-for-better-wage","title":{"rendered":"South Darfur Ministry staff strike for better wage"},"content":{"rendered":"

A large number of employees of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of South Darfur organised a protest sit-in in front of the agricultural sector buildings in the state capital of Nyala, on Tuesday morning as part of a campaign of protests over the unification of the salary structure. The protesters chanted slogans condemning the low salary.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marwa El Hajj told Radio Dabanga that the vigil aimed at putting pressure on the government to implement the salary structure and pay the workers’ rights in full.<\/p>\n

In Red Sea state, protesting employees closed offices of Port Sudan locality in the city, demanding better wages.<\/p>\n

Health workers in the state continued their strike for the fourth day, demanding an improvement in the salary structure.<\/p>\n

In the same context, employees of the Ministry of Finance in Red Sea state staged a protest, demanding the implementation of the newly set salary structure.<\/p>\n

As reported by Radio Dabanga yesterday, trade union leaders predict an increase in strikes<\/a> in various parts of the country due to the deteriorating living conditions, poor wages, and salary adjustments. At least eight different strikes are happening in the country at the moment.<\/p>\n

Trade union leader Mahjoub Kanari told Radio Dabanga that the current union void is one of the most important reasons for the current strikes.<\/p>\n

Most of the trade unions were directly associated with the ousted regime of Omar Al Bashir (1989-2019). They were dissolved in 2019 by the new Council of Ministers, headed by former Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, as part of legal reforms<\/a> to dismantle the former dictatorial regime.<\/p>\n

Kanari referred to a state of “feeling unfairness and injustice” among the workers, explaining that the government was unable to deal with the economic and legal problems.<\/p>\n

He warned against any unsystematic or unrealistic treatment of the salaries and said that this could lead to disastrous results.<\/p>\n

He called for a comprehensive treatment of the issue of remuneration by allowing re-instatement of independent unions and restructuring the tripartite mechanism made up of the government, the private sector, and trade unions.<\/p>\n