Motorcycle Riders Announce An Indefinite Strike

Motorcycle drivers announce an indefinite strike tomorrow Tuesday

The slogan was filed with the Prime Minister last Thursday

The slogan was filed with the Prime Minister by the collective of national unions in the land transport sector last Thursday. 

"Following the strike notice to be sent by us last November 6, we are sad to see that nothing is done in relation to our grievances. Despite all the patriotism that drives us, we are forced to move up a gear. 

Since no reply has been made to our previous correspondence, we are entering an unlimited general strike on the whole national territory on November 21st. " Here succinctly, the content of the document of the collective of national unions of the land transport sector, made up of about fifteen associations for the defense of land transport rights. 

In the story before the announcement, the unions demand the Government, the implementation of certain government measures, to improve the conditions of practice of their profession, reads in New Expression Friday, November 17, 2017 This is concretely the adoption of the governmental commitment of 10 July 2014, which created a national committee responsible for mototaxis issues.

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An agreement had been signed between the Government on the one hand and the unions on the other, for an immediate operationalization of the points of loading and unloading motorbikes; the immediate cessation of controls and the effectiveness of the union file by body of trades, among others. 

It must be said that motorcycle drivers are often, they say, victims of abusive treatment in the practice of their profession, in this case the impeccable impoundment of motorcycles, non-compliance with the fine rates, to name only those. This often leads to clashes between communal agents and these drivers of two-wheeled vehicles. 

For the Collective of national unions in the land transport sector, this situation must imperatively improve, hence the strike announced for next Tuesday. One could then, chained with a movement of identical mood, on the side of the taxi drivers, one learns.