Public transport sector in Tunis strikes for better payment
STORY: Public transport sector in Tunis strikes for better payment
DATELINE: Jan. 3, 2023
LENGTH: 00:00:56
LOCATION: Tunis
CATEGORY: ECONOMY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of closed public transport facilities in Tunis
STORYLINE:
The Tunisian public transport employees on Monday held a strike for payment improvement in response to current rising living expenditure.
The public transport in Tunis, including buses and light rail, stopped working and the traffic in the city was paralyzed.
According to a spokesman, the Tunisian government will significantly reduce food and energy subsidies in 2023 and the prices of various daily necessities will rise sharply, so they urge the government to increase the employees' payments.
For the same reason, Tunisia's aviation and shipping sectors are planning to strike in late January.
The country's ministry of economy predicted in December that the inflation rate will reach around 10.8 percent in 2023.
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tunis.
(XHTV)
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