VOL. XLIV

No. 13

26-March-2001

ALGERIA

Oil Workers Union Stage One Day Warning Strike

Algerian hydrocarbon, mining and power workers staged a one-day strike on 20 March to protest against the proposed hydrocarbon law (MEES, 5 February), calling for its withdrawal "since it is not good for Sonatrach or the country." Trade union leaders fear that the draft hydrocarbon legislation will lead to the laying off of workers, the weakening of the state-owned national oil company Sonatrach and a loss of...