2023-05-01 22:42:28
The traditional decorations ceremony was held yesterday in the middle of the day in the lobby of the building of the National Social Security Fund in Niamey under the chairmanship of the Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Protection, Dr Ibrah Boukary. This year, a total of 556 workers from the public, parapublic and private sectors were awarded the Labor Medal of Honour. The ceremony also recorded the delivery of the notebooks of grievances of the trade union centers to the government.
Minister Ibrah Boukary indicated that the medal of honor for work is awarded as a reward “to workers who, for years, have shone by their ardor for the task and who have shown self-sacrifice, courage and determination to produce the wealth that will one day allow our country, Niger, to rise to the rank of developed countries”. He congratulated all the workers who, by “their dedication”, deserved the medal of honor for work.
Twelve (12) of the nominees were at the decoration ceremony organized by the Ministry of Employment, Labor and Social Protection to share their joy with members of the government, their colleagues and their families. These people are equally distributed in the four categories of the medal of honor for work which are the Bronze medal, the Silver medal, the Gold medal and the Grand Gold Medal. The Minister decorated with this last distinction, the highest of the Medal of Honor for Labor, the sirs Amadou Issoufou, Moussa Seydou and Mrs. Agala Mariama.
The most ardent wish of the government, assured the Minister of Employment, is to see this distinction motivate more recipients, as well as other workers. He called on those who are not yet nominated “to work harder and to persevere in the voice of effort and dedication so that their names will one day go down in history in the sons’ guestbook. the most deserving of Niger”.
Union leaders, strongly mobilized, took advantage of the decoration ceremony to submit their grievances to the government. This year again, the unions shone by what weakens them, that is to say the division because they did not speak with the same voice. The Inter-union of workers of Niger (ITN) and the Democratic Confederation of workers of Niger, each on its side, submitted its own notebooks of grievances. All of them take up the traditional themes of the demands of the trade union centers of Niger which aim to improve the daily lives of workers in the country.
For Minister Ibrah Boukary, these notebooks of grievances reflect the concerns and legitimate aspirations not only of the workers, but also of the partners. “These notebooks are extremely important to me because they allow us to know the expectations of workers in Niger. They constitute a real specification for my ministerial department”, he said before. The Minister of Employment recalled that the efforts made by actors in the labor and employment sector have led to a peaceful social climate that the State intends to maintain “to offer the populations of Niger services and a quality support, and to other economic agents, the possibility of making their investments profitable, promoting their activities and creating new jobs”.
“I remain convinced that the same frame of mind will continue to govern our relations, which will make it possible to create suitable conditions for the reflections and exchanges that we will have around the various points of your notebooks of grievances”, continued Dr Ibrah Boukary. . The Minister of Employment reiterated the government’s availability for frank, sincere and constructive exchanges with the social actors and also the availability of the members of the interministerial negotiation committee to find, as far as possible, solutions to the questions raised in the notebooks of grievances.
Souleymane Yahaya (onep)
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