SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan journalists, lawyers demand removal of corrupt trade union leaders

15/10/19: Radio Dabanga - Sudan journalists, lawyers demand removal of corrupt trade union leaders

 Radio Dabanga reports that journalists and lawyers are critical of the decision to dissolve trade unions and hold new union elections within three months – viewing the measure as a  counter-revolutionary attempt to restore government control of the trade unions.

 The General Registrar of Labour Organisations has dissolved unions established under Omar al-Bashir’s regime, in a decision that the Sudanese Journalist Network (SJN) has labelled as  “flawed.” The SJN said they will not participate in elections due to the 2004 Professional Associations Act that includes “many legal loopholes designed to enable affiliates of the Al Bashir regime to control the trade unions.”

 The Darfur Bar Association has called on the Minister of Justice to dissolve the unions’ executive committees, to develop a new Trade Unions Law, and ensure the establishment of genuinely independent trade unions and syndicates.