Case No 2450 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 04-AUG-05

The Djibouti Union of Workers (UDT), the General Union of Djibouti Workers (UGTD) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)

Allegations

The complainant organizations, the Djibouti Union of Workers (UDT) and the General Union of Djibouti Workers (UGTD), allege that the Government: refuses to take the necessary measures to reinstate union members dismissed in 1995 following a strike in protest against the consequences of a structural adjustment programme launched by the IMF, despite having made a commitment to do so in 2002; continues to unfairly dismiss union officials and to harass them; has adopted a new Labour Code spelling the end of free and independent trade unionism; and shows favouritism in the appointment of worker’s delegates to regional and international conferences. The UDT also alleges that a senior union official (postal sector) was unfairly dismissed; union members were repeatedly harassed; and the judiciary has not acted on complaints from union members. The ICFTU alleges the violent suppression of a strike carried out by bus and truck drivers in September 2005, which resulted in numerous arrests and the assassination of a member of the drivers’ union; the prohibition of trade union elections at the national printing press during the year 2005; impediments placed by the Government to the holding and organizing of free trade union elections at all levels; massive arrests and detention of trade union members and leaders from the Union of Port Workers (UTP); the arrest of Mohamad Ahmed Mohamad, responsible for legal affairs at the UTP, Djibril Ismael Egueh, Secretary-General of the Staff Union at the Maritime and Transit Services (SP-MTS), Adan Mohamed Abdou, Secretary-General of the UDT and Hassan Cher Hared, Secretary for International Affairs of the UDT, all of whom were ultimately charged with “delivering information to a foreign power”; and the barring from entry of an international trade union solidarity mission, despite the formal assurances given by the Minister of the Interior for their unimpeded entry into Djibouti and the subsequent arrest and interrogation of the unique member of this mission allowed to enter the country,

Case No 2450 (Djibouti) - Complaint date: 04-AUG-05

The Djibouti Union of Workers (UDT), the General Union of Djibouti Workers (UGTD) and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)

Allegations

Examination Actions