Labor Watch - The head of the Independent Trade Unions Federation for Workers in Jordan Municipalities Ahmed Al-Saadi stressed the right of workers in municipalities to strike in order to meet their demands, which were approved by Jordanian legislations and international covenants, and that the percentage of commitment reached 90% in some municipalities.
He told the "Labor Watch" that the allegations of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Minister of Transport Eng. Waleed Al-Masri that the committee that formed by him reach for the good and satisfactory results by achieved 90 to 95% of the demands are untrue.
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Minister of Transport Waleed Al-Masri said in a press statement on Wednesday that the committee he set up to study the demands of municipal employees examined these demands over two weeks and reached satisfactory and good results that achieve 90 to 95% of the demands.
Al-Saadi said that the decisions made by the meeting of the committee that sat up by the minister in Rusaifeh do not meet the aspirations of the employees and most of them outside their demands, stressing that there are eight basic demands that the workers strike to achieve them.
He pointed out that municipal workers had no choice but to declare a general strike to demand their rights peacefully and within the limits of the law.