The strike launched by UNTM ended on Friday 18 December. Five days during which malians were called to stop working. A movement followed well, according to the country’s first union organization. There was no communication from the authorities on the subject. UNTM withdrew on Tuesday night from the talks that began with the government, following statements by President Bah N’Daw, which were considered insulting. The union finally returned to the negotiating table on Friday.
Negotiations resumed on Friday morning, even before the end of the strike. The National Union of Workers of Mali (UNTM) withdrew from talks to protest interim president, Bah N’Daw, had likened the strikers to “mentally ill people“But its president, Yacouba Katilé, says today that he wants to show responsibility:
“For the good of the nation, we must agree to return to the negotiating table again. The government has shown itself willing to come back. We’re not here to do anything, forgive me the expression. It is about working and coming to conclusions for our activists. ”
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UNTM is now asking the government for details on the financing and conditions for the answers it intends to give to its requirements. Requirements relating to the harmonization of pay scales and bonuses and benefits in the public sector, or the fate of compressed workers, from state-owned enterprises that have been privatized.
A new meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 21. No new strike announcements have been made to give the negotiations a chance without increasing the pressure.
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