(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY March 13: A number of private oil sector employees organized a sit-in Thursday evening in front of the headquarters of the workers' union building reports Al-Seyassah daily. The daily added they were protesting the union policy and the steps taken which contradict their interests. In the context one of the protesters Nasser Al-Mousawi said the protestors want to express rejection of the arbitrariness of the union noting that it deprives employees of the right to demands.
He pointed out about 200 demands have been submitted since last December but they have not been answered so far and it seems board refused to accept the demands after learning that some of them were going to contest the elections to the union. Meanwhile it has been reported the union held an extraordinary general assembly at the end of last December and that there was lack of quorum because the participants were less than 50 employees while the membership in the union is more than 7000 employees. They also said the decisions taken by the Assembly are tantamount to monopoly. Sources said a signature campaign is in the offing to highlight their grievances and it will be submitted to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor highlighting the abusive policy of the union.
On the other hand the Chairman of the Union of Workers in Mohammad Al-Fadhli has denied the accusations slapped on the union by the employees. He affirmed the door is always open to the employees employees who follow the internal regulations. However the chairman said what the procedures have to be done by the employee in person and not through a representative. He also pointed that the door is always open for dialogue and all legal procedures. Whoever wants to submit his resignation has to follow the legal rules and denied the union has intentionally sacked some employees and what happened is that only an employee was dismissed from his work through sanctions specified by the internal regulations.
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