The arrest of the Secretary-General of the Railway Union has thrown the union scene into disarray on the eve of a national strike that was called off at the last minute.
The National Federation of Railway Workers, affiliated with the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), experienced a surprising development after its former Secretary-General, Lounis Saidi, was placed in pretrial detention on Friday, July 5, 2025. This development led to the cancellation of the open-ended national strike scheduled to begin Sunday, July 7, in a move that has thrown the sector's union scene into disarray. Saidi had […]
Ali Maamri: The Algerian Trade Unionist Whose Case Brought International Attention in the ILO's Freedom of Association Report
An independent trade unionist in the eye of the storm. In its latest report, No. 411, the International Labour Organization (ILO) Committee on Freedom of Association highlighted the state of union repression in Algeria, examining the case of Ali Mammeri, a prominent leader of the independent trade union confederation COSYFOP and a member of its Human Rights Defense Committee in Oum El Bouaghi province. According to the complainant organization […]