Trade unions in Niger

Trade unions in Niger are free to engage in regular unionist activities, with constitutionally protected provisions for forming and joining trade unions. However, with 95% the working population engaged in subsistence activities,[1] the numbers of trade union members are low.

Trade unions in Niger
National organization(s)USTN
International Labour Organization
Niger is a member of the ILO
Convention ratification
Freedom of Association27 February 1961
Right to Organise23 March 1962

Trade unions

The Union of Workers' Trade Unions of Niger (USTN) is the largest trade union centre with a membership of 60,000. The Democratic Confederation of Workers of Niger (CDTN) was formed in 2001 as a breakaway union from the USTN. The Nigerien Confederation of Labour (CNT) is the third largest trade union centre.

Strike actions

2009 Constitutional crisis

On 25 June 2009, the CDTN trade union confederation led a 24-hour general strike across the nation to protest the President's referendum plans, after a previous strike had been indefinitely postponed on 18 June. All seven trade union confederations took part, in the first general strike since the creation of the Fifth Republic in 1999, and the first joint action by all seven major confederations. The organizers provided skeleton staffs of union workers for hospitals, water and electric utilities, and airports.[2][3]

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gollark: Then the rules shall be editatteed.
gollark: Probably not, just add a rule talking about how the existing processing rules map to batch tasks.
gollark: What? No, probably not, you would just wait 150 minutes.
gollark: I mean more like being able to queue up batch operations on furnaces/mines or something, so you can say "process 10 clay into 10 brick" and your stuff will be busy for 150 minutes.

References
  1. ICTUR; et al., eds. (2005). Trade Unions of the World (6th ed.). London, UK: John Harper Publishing. ISBN 0-9543811-5-7.
  2. Niger president's main ally quits the government. AFP. 25 June 2009.
  3. Niger: grève générale jeudi contre le projet de référendum de M. Tandja. AFP. 24 June 2009.
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