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Mauritania: Workers protesting miners 'new form of slavery' |
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| Society & You - Social Critic | |||
| Friday, 03 August 2012 12:03 | |||
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The northern Mauritanian cities Zouerate and Nouadhibou are going through protests by workers who are not registered. More than 2,300 workers are protesting the mining town of Zouerate, in northern Mauritania, which has led to a complete standstill in ten sites of the National Mining and Industrial Company ( SNIM [fr]), in addition to discontinue work in elsewhere. The workers are demanding benefit increases granted Pay SNIM recientelemente for their workers also call social security and the right of labor to be given priority Mauritanian citizens, compared with foreign-entry workers from neighboring countries. New type of slavery These workers, known as workers' journalia "in local dialect, also call direct contract with SNIM instead of contracts with third parties, they only pay 40 percent of the wages of each worker SNIM, which they consider traffic people and a new kind of slavery. The protesters also threatened to hold a rally of Zouerate to Nouakchott, like the activists who organized Nouadhibou few months ago. In Nouadhibou, workers' journalia "are also making a protest against what they call human trafficking, nearly one thousand workers are amenanzado to stop work and participate in a strike open.  Photo of the protest in Nouadhibou Journalia Mauritannet blog.  The demonstration in Zouerate. The blog Mauritannet [ar] wrote about these protests and you can read about events in Zouerate in the Facebook page of the motion on February 25 [ar]: تعيش مدينة "الزويرات" على وقع اعتصام "الجرنالية" الذي يدخل في أسبوعه الثاني. هذا الاعتصام وجد تعاطفا كبيرا من سكان الزويرات حيث لم تتوقف المساعدات عن المعتصمين من أجل أن يستمر إعتصامهم. وكذالك يقوم فنانو المدينة ومداحيها وشعرائها كل ليلة باحياء سهرات من اجل الترفيه عن المعتصمين وحثهم على مواصلة نضالهم من اجل إنتزاع حقوقهم. وتجد رالاشارة الى أنه في الزويرات يعتصم الان حوالي أكثر من 2300 عامل من عمال "الجرنالية" إحتجاجا على مايصفونه بمقاولة البشر ومن. أجل فسخ العقودالموقعة مع الشركات الوسيطة The city of Zouerate has been living at the rhythm of the protesting workers, which has entered its second week. The people of Zouerate have shown their solidarity with the strikers and have shown that providing assistance to continue their protest. Artists and poets of the city are acting every night to encourage them to continue the fight for their rights. Zouerate Now, more than 2,300 workers are protesting against what they call human trafficking and are appealing to end its contract with the intermediary companies. The blogger Mauritanian Shaykh Alddedd Wald [ar] also wrote about it: المشكلة تعود إلي دفع الشركة لرواتب مضاعفة أربع مرات إضافة إلي زيادة نسبية لرواتب العمال الرسميين بينما تجاهلت عمال "الجرنالية" وهي حسب النقابيين سابقة خطيرة وقد تؤدي إلي انفجار الوضع داخل الشركة. The problem lies in the fact that companies pay their legal workers four times the wages paid to "journalia" and also increased their earnings, while it has ignored calls journalia workers, which according to the union is a dangerous precedent that could lead to increased and explosion of the situation in the company. Ahmed Haymoudane [ar] denounces the lack of any attempt to resolve the crisis by the company involved: بوادر حل الأزمة لم تبد بعد في الأفق نتيجة ل: - إصرار شركة "اسنيم" على المواصلة في استغلال العمال الموريتانيين في مشهد يعيد إلى الأذهان قصص استغلال العمال الأفارقة في مزارع قصب السكر في القارة الأمريكية في القرون البائدة; - إصرار العمال على المضي قدما في إضرابهم السلمي وعدم الخضوع للضغوط التي تمارسها الشركة ضدهم من خلال تهديدها لهم بتعويضهم بالعمال الأجانب. - إصرار السلطات على إسكات كل من يصدح مطالبا بحقه في هذا الوطن حتى لا تنتشر عدوى الثورة وتخرج الأوضاع عن سيطرتها. No sign of solutions so far and that is due to: - SNIM's insistence to continue exploiting Mauritanian workers in a way that reminds the exploitation of African workers in sugar cane fields in Africa in the past. - The insistence of the workers continue their strike and not subject to the pressures that the company has been applied by threatening to replace them with foreign workers. - The insistence of the authorities to silence anyone who raise your voice calling their rights in the country for the spread of revolution does not spread and things do not get out of control. Alddedd Wald Al Sheikh also tweets: @ Dedda04 : ثورة الحقوق وبوادر التمرد التي تعم # موريتانيا تصل إلى عمال الجرنالية. @ Dedda04 : The rights revolution and signs of rebellion prevailing in Mauritania are starting to reach workers journalia. Written by أحمد جدو · Translated by Gabriela Garcia Calderon Orbe · View original post [ing] · Comments (0)
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