Madar (Nouakchott) - The National Confederation of Mauritanian Workers (CNTM) has denounced what it considers its exclusion from several national bodies dealing with dialogue, labour and social security, even though it ranks second nationally in the public and private sectors, according to the results of the union representativeness elections.
Its secretary general, labour inspector Mohamed Ould Rabbani, said at a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the union representativeness elections, on Friday evening in Nouakchott, that the process had been marred by a number of shortcomings, chiefly the failure to complete union representativeness in private-sector companies, the lack of premises for the most representative unions, and the denial of government support to unions that did not obtain representative status.
Ould Rabbani called for the results of the union elections to be respected and for representation rates to be translated into effective participation in national bodies, along with a fair distribution of public support that reflects the electoral weight of each union confederation.
He also called for the Confederation to be included in national bodies and social dialogue committees, and for collective agreements to be reviewed, so as to ensure that the most representative unions take part in the various decision-making processes on labour matters.
