Municipality Guards' Syndicate threatens to go down to streets
Photo: Echorouk
Members of the National Syndicate of Municipality Guards split between opponents and supporter of the sit-in and protests after the postponement of the approval of their professional demands until the meeting, which will be held on March 2, at the headquarters of the Interior Ministry, as a number of members of the National Committee in charge of the dialogue with the interior Ministry said they have not declared any statement of protest, at the time the representative of the National Syndicate, Hakim Choaib issued a statement under the title of ” Anger among Municipality Guards.”
The statement said that the NSMG announces the launch of a national sit-in in Algiers, if their demands are not realized, and that during the meeting, which will bring together the Syndicate with representatives of the Interior Ministry on March 2, as its members noticed a delay during their meeting with representatives of the ministry, on Monday, after giving a deadline for the negotiations to until the beginning of September.
According to the statemente, which copy was obtained by Echorouk, and which was signed by Hakim Choaib, in his capacity as representative of the syndicate, the Interior Ministry postpones the consideration of the demands by the Municipality Guards, and realizing them, up to meeting to be hold on March 2, 2014, which was considered by the syndicate’s members as not showing good faith, and escaping forward in the realization of the legitimate demands of the Municipality Guards’ members, which are related to the professional demands and that pushed them at the beginning of last January to organize a sit in and go down to the streets to defend their violated rights.
On the other hand, Ben Amer Tayeb, Representative of the NSMG of the western regions, said in phone interview with Echorouk, that their meeting with Representatives of the Interior Ministry, on Sunday, was successful and fruitful, as they witnessed the ministry’s readiness for dialogue and to achieve their demands, and this after the adviser to the Interior Ministry read a statement by the Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sella, which ordered them to considers the demands of the Municipality Guards, and to solve all their problems, pointing to the lack of their intent to go down to the streets at the moment, after what they witnessed a clear response to their demands by the Interior Ministry.