It had sought a deal that would not antagonise the Union Générale Tunisienne de Travail (UGTT) but the influential trade union federation's Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi has been forced to respond to worker dissatisfaction and Saïed's attempt to monopolise power even as his movement is mired in internal differences and corruption charges...
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Noureddine Taboubi General Secretary of the Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail Tunisia's largest trade union federation publicly attacked President Saïed earlier this month...
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In a speech marking the eighth anniversary of Ben Ali's flight on 14 January UGTT secretary-general Noureddine Taboubi highlighted the government's failure to meet a commitment to link public sector wages to price rises and the need for 'the preservation of national sovereignty' – shorthand for resistance to policies inspired by International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan conditions not least privatisations of state assets and cuts in subsidies on electricity basic foodstuffs and other products...
