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 […]