Public Employees Continue Striking in Guinea Bissau

Today public employees have started another one-month-long strike to ask inter alia for the dismissal of all the public employees hired without a public examination, the improvement of working conditions and an increase in the minimum wage from the current 50,000 cfa francs (76 euros) to the double. The Trade Union (UNTG) has declared that 80% of the public employees joined the protest in May, and that the number is likely to rise this month because the Government delayed the payment of their May salaries due to their absence resulting from the strike, which has been affecting the public administration since December.