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Thursday, February 12, 2015
Gabon trade unions have declared an indefinite general strike, as they seek a huge raise in pay. The call for a substantial boost in pay comes at a time when the government is preparing for austerity measures due to the sharp drop in the oil price.
State workers are seeking to more than triple their salaries to 300,000 CFA francs and Gabon’s oil accounts are shrinking. Oil accounts for nearly half of the GDP in the country.
“On the salary issue, the government signed agreements with unions which expired in 2014 and were never put in place,”Jean Remy Yama Lendoye, a spokesman for the unions was quoted in a Reuters report.
The general strike, which began February 9, is the first in a very long time and pulls together more than 50 separate unions under the umbrella group “Unitary Dynamic”.
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