Port Sudan, August 17(Darfur24) Today, work at Port Sudan harbor for exports and imports of agricultural products stopped, after two days of continuing work, as a result of the renewed strike of plant-quarantine workers.
A member of the strike committee, Ibrahim Taher Al-Nour, explained that the renewal of the strike resulted from the failure of the Federal Ministry of Finance to issue a written decision confirming its approval of the demands that prompted the workers to strike.
He stated that their return to work for two days was a goodwill gesture, but the failure to meet their demands, the first of which was their demand for 40% of the revenue, the determination of the monthly incentive for workers, and the improvement of the work environment, forced them to enter into an open strike.
The economic expert, Dr. Muammar Babiker Al-Hassan, warned that these strikes cause great losses to the country’s economy, but he noted that excluding “sugar and flour” commodities may reduce the speed of the government’s response to the demands, as they are the two commodities that constitute pressure on the government.